THE ELECTIONS in Nicaragua took place on 4 November. Prior to this, ANTUNEZ, a Sandinista candidate in the elections spoke at a meeting in Leeds. ZOE GILBERT was there.
Rosario said, and how the elections are seen.
ROSARIO was born in Nueva Segovia, near the school for 13 years until in 1975 she was arrested, imprisoned and sacked from her job.
She ioined the Sandinistas in 1974. In 1979 she was forced to flee with her two youngest children, walking over the mountains to Honduras to escape the National Guard when they ambushed a guerilla column of which she was a member.
Nicaragua, and was a member of the government of reconstruction. In 1980 she became director of education for Nueva Segovia. She is a candidate or the constituency of Las Segovias in the elec.
Women At the Leeds meeting she was asked what the Nicaraguan woman won her equal rights with the revolution,' she said. Women are no longer used as and prostitution has been abolished. A rehabilitation scheme for ex-prostitutes to teach them new vides for pensions for women abandoned by their pregnancy. Alongside these reforms, women have me rignt to parucipale in every organisalon, anu KUSarIU Reagan winning the US elections Contra activity and the prospects of an invasion. Whether Reagan wins or not, Nicaragua still exwhether the Nicaraguan elections go ahead or not. Or if the Sandinistas win or not.
revolution can do for the people of the world. They will do even the impossible to destroy our This is why the efforts of the Contadora group Panama and was along with the group,' she explained. "The Sandinistas support what the group is trying to do.
It would be wonderful if they could achieve Contadora group can do. The US is determined to make us appear the war mongers, even though we are the only country that wants peace.
Finally Rosario was asked about the role of the priests who are defying the Vatican to support the revolution, and about the debate on liberation theology' There is a big difference between the upper hierarchy of the church follows the dictats of perialism. The priests work with the people. The progressive priests work with the revolution.
The confrontation that is now taking place between the upper hierarchy of the church and the priests who support the revolution is not about religion but about politics.
in the election Rosario, like dinista candidates, is standing on the achievements of five years of the revolution legislation and mass organisation. Before the other parties pulled out it was clear that on this basis the FSLN would win an overwhelming victory. why the other parties have pulled out.
None of the opposition parties have produced a single argument to back up from the democratic process. dinistas have no opposition only the size of the poll wil snow tne extent or their support.
And it will show that, because in Nicaragu to the polling booths with a gun at their back.
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