Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition 7.21.2026: Nicaraguans Commemorate 47th Anniversary of their Revolution
July 19, 2026
And it is all of Nicaragua that is presiding, because in all the Municipalities, Departments, of our Country, there are the Nicaraguans, which is what gives rise to the fact that…the one who presides over the Presidency is the People President, the Youth President, the Workers President, the Peasants President.
How much pain, how much blood has it cost the People of Nicaragua to reach this 47th Anniversary… thanks to Commander Carlos and other Brothers like Tomás [Borge], like Colonel Santos López who had fought in Sandino's Army, the Sandinista National Liberation Front was able to consolidate and develop, and finally manage to defeat the Dictatorship, even though the Dictatorship was supported by the American Government, was financed by the American Government.
Don't think that just because there's no war we're at peace... No! They're always conspiring, organizing, figuring out how to create political parties so that in an election they're supposed to hold, those parties will win… Here we have been making enormous efforts to bring peace to the country, but let's remember how in 2018, when we were in agreements with the businessmen, with the Somoza supporters, who were businessmen, we had a great agreement there for peace, and the agreement was progressing, and suddenly the stab in the back, they organized the coup, they used funds from the United States to take young people and adults, to prepare them, train them, arm them, and overthrow the legitimate government of the Sandinista Front.
We are going to work, with the National Assembly and with the corresponding organizations, on the laws, because we have to make the laws that put up a wall, a block, against the coup plotters, against the traitors, and that no matter how much money the Yankees give them, they will not be able to, they will not be able to! And tonight we want to reaffirm, once again, our commitment to peace. Let us not be provoked, because they may try to provoke us into falling into their trap, and that is where violence comes from. That's why defending peace is a fundamental task to guarantee the continuity of work, projects, hospitals, universities, housing, and all the projects we are developing and will continue to develop.
[The US government claims Daniel Ortega’s speech said he will not allow elections in Nicaragua, distorting what he said: “There won’t be any more elections here for them to try to seize the government and seize power. … The days when parties backed by the Yankees and the Somocistas would return to power are over. Never again.”
Daniel Ortega’s comments were not directed at the Nicaraguan people nor in reference to their constitutional right to vote. His was referring to those who have promoted sanctions, foreign interference and acts that undermine the sovereignty and peace of Nicaragua, and to the US which buys and manipulates other countries’ elections. Daniel announced a move to pass legislation ensuring that those who threaten Nicaragua's national security will not be allowed to run for public office such as National Assembly Deputy or President of the Republic. [Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition Coordinating Committee]
Co-President Rosario Murillo, Speaks after the Central Act in Celebration of the 47th Anniversary of the Sandinista Popular RevolutionAs Daniel said, as we all believe and know, all of us who have lived through these times that have been so very challenging, and for that reason also, times that have forged us. It is a formidable solidity, the one we see in this plaza, the one we see in all the country’s plazas….over 300 events have been held in our Municipalities and Communities. That is the solidity of a People who knows that, first of all, it fights for Peace, for Good, and also, above all, that Struggle is the most exalted of Songs. And here, where we have lived through so much pain and so much love, we know that to strive and to know how to fight is to overcome, because we do not fight with hatred... No! We fight with Love and for Love, and that is really fundamental to be able to understand what Nicaraguans are made of. We, who have been here always, know that Love is the transcendental force that must and does move the World, the Peoples of the World, above all.
Latest Poll of the Nicaraguan People: Overwhelming support of almost 90% for the Co-Presidency of Commander Daniel and Compañera Rosario[The poll was conducted by MyR Consultores (M&R Consultants), a firm operating in 15 Latin American countries.]
The government is leading the country in the right direction: Yes 88.7%.
These rights are respected in Nicaragua today: the free market (93.6%), freedom of the press (92.7%), freedom of religion (91.4%), the right to freely vote (91.3%), the human rights of the population (90.8%).
People's satisfaction with the functioning of Nicaraguan democracy (98.2%).
The economic situation of the country compared to one year ago has improved (70.1%), stayed the same (20.9%), worsened (9%).
Percent of population that has been a victim of assault or robbery: 2012, 16.6%, June 2026, 2.5%.
Has the security of the people increased from five years ago: Yes 86.6%, same 8.4%, worsened 4.8%.
Percent of population who think the police are professional: 91.4%.
Percent who think the democratic government upholds and follows the law: 86.3%; who think it is authoritarian: 10.6%
John Perry: NACLA marks the 47th Anniversary of the Revolution by interviewing one of its traitorsNACLA (the North American Congress on Latin America) has just published an article by journalist Linda Farthing, largely based on an interview with ex-Sandinista and now right-wing political activist, Dora María Téllez. John Perry wrote to NACLA, "Five years after the coup attempt I interviewed a local resident of Masaya, where I live, who was vociferous about the role played by Téllez. She was regularly seen by him - and I have corroborated this with several others - walking freely in Masaya as an opposition leader when the vast majority of residents lived in fear of the violent roadblocks that she had helped set up and which put the city under siege. She was seen on more than one occasion distributing money, food, drugs and other supplies to those manning the roadblocks, many of whom were local delinquents and even - in some cases - members of notorious gangs brought in from El Salvador….
In the interview with Farthing, Téllez portrays herself as a rebel, yet she supported right-wing candidates in elections after the Sandinistas returned to power in 2007. She even praised the 2019 coup in Bolivia and (as Wikileaks revealed) actively collaborated with the US embassy's plans to end Sandinista rule in the run up to 2018. Both she and her partner Ana Margarita Vigil, who also has a lengthy history of collaboration with the US, were charged with inciting foreign interference in Nicaragua's 2021 elections.”
Brenda Rocha, President Magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Council: We have our sovereignty, our self-determination, and here is a people who love their homeland, who love peace. That joy of celebrating 47 years ago, when I was only 12 years old, and remembering that we all went out to celebrate that triumph with joy in all the streets of Nicaragua. My grandmother and my mother used to say: "The boys won, the Sandinista Front won in this Free Homeland!" And here we are with those advances, those advances in empowering women, in empowering young people, children, and youth.
Because that comprehensive attention that is given from all areas of responsibility, and we as women, very proudly say it, the spaces we have as women. These advances we have in education, free and bilingual education, and with languages now on the Caribbean Coast; and here in the Pacific, bilingual education working for that technological advancement for families.
The participation of young people is Revolution. We saw it before '79, after '79, the participation we young people had, and now in this new stage of the Revolution, which is much more difficult because before we were armed with rifles. We see them there with that constant emotional participation, with commitment, with love for their country, with their participation in their studies, in agriculture, in sports, in culture.
[Before the revolution] we had no rights; it was like we weren't part of Nicaragua, we weren't part of Nicaragua. First of all, being young was a crime. Anyone who was young back then was being followed by the National Guard. We had no right to land, no right to education. [The National Guard] roamed the streets. The pressure we experienced was immense, especially with the country's economy, very difficult, because the poor, who were the majority, had no rights whatsoever.
Mothers couldn't send their children to school because everything had to be paid for. Now, after 1979, education is free, and most importantly, when we participated in that great campaign, that was my first school, the school for many young people at that time, the Great National Literacy Crusade. We went to teach reading and writing, yes; but we also went to learn from the farmers, to be able to be there.
Later, with the Agrarian Reform, being able to have that land not just for men, but for families, and where most were women heads of household—that was a victory, and we worked in every area because before, we didn't have that right.
It's been 47 years, and one might think they're easy, but they aren't, not for those of us who have lived through it and remember, and see that there are many comrades who are no longer with those dear mothers, those mothers of our heroes and martyrs.
But we say to our heroes and martyrs, to our mothers, that their dreams have been fulfilled here. We say to Commander Carlos, to Commander Tomás, to Sandino: Here are your dreams!
Upcoming Events
July 22, 9am (Atlanta): All out to Atlanta for historic Uhuru 3 appeal! Oral arguments in the appeal of the landmark Uhuru 3 case will be heard by a panel of three judges at the Elbert P. Tuttle U.S. appeals courthouse in Atlanta, GA. The appeal was filed in June 2025 on behalf of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel by the Uhuru 3 legal team.
July 22 (NYC): 8am - Support kidnapped Venezuelan Pres. Maduro and Cilia Flores at Federal Court.Join us at Baxter and Worth in lower Manhattan, Free President Nicolas Maduro &First Combatant Cilia Flores! Hands Off Venezuela!
July 26, 1:30pm webinar on conditions in Venezuela and in the solidarity movement, with Maria Paez VictorTo join on the phone: Meeting ID: 873 8882 4824, Passcode: 042428. Maria Páez Victor is a sociologist, born in Caracas, Venezuela where she obtained her first degree. She has an MA from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a Ph.D. from York University, Canada. She has been a political activist in defense of Venezuelan sovereignty for many years.
July 28, 1:30 pm ET webinar: Venezuela Solidarity Campaign: Emergency in Venezuela – End all sanctions, give back the gold! Despite the earthquakes that have devastated Venezuela, a thousand US sanctions on Venezuela remain in place and Britain’s theft of Venezuela’s gold continues. Speakers: Fravia Marquez, advisor to Venezuela’s National Assembly & spokesperson for the Cumbé Afro-Descendant Movement. Gerdul Gutierrez, Secretary of International Relations of the CSBT (Venezuela’s trade unions); María Páez Victor, Venezuelan Sociologist; Jeremy Corbyn MP; Francisco Dominguez (VSC) & Kate Hudson (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
July 30 (noon ET) webinar: Stopping U.S. Aggression Against Cuba This seminar will analyze the illegality of the U.S. threats to invade Cuba and change its government, the illegal U.S. blockade against Cuba, and steps the international community can take to prevent and punish U.S. aggression against Cuba. Speakers: Vladimir Mora Fonseca: Legal Adviser to Permanent Mission of Cuba to the UN; Alexis Ginarte Gato: President of National Union of Cuban Jurists; Carlos Villán Durán: Professor of International Human Rights Law, President of Spanish Society for International Human Rights Law; moderated by Marjorie Cohn
September 3, 10, 17, 23: Governing from Below: Nicaragua During the Neoliberal Years Following the loss of the elections in 1990, Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) vowed to “govern from below.” Over the next 16 years the FSLN worked closely with its grassroots base through unions, student groups, and social movements to influence the national government and eventually return to power. The FSLN’s experiences in opposition to neoliberal governance provide important lessons for activists around the world working to effect change.
Upcoming Delegations to Nicaragua:2027 Casa Ben Linder Nicaragua Tours
Feb 13-19 Bird Brigade – birding in Solentiname and Rio San Juan
March 6-14 Power and Protagonism: Women in Nicaragua – meet with women in leadership roles – cooperatives, labor unions, peasant feminists, and artisans to explore gender equity in Nicaragua
April 22-30 Light and Legacy: Ben Linder Brigade – Commemorate 40 years since the assassination of U.S. solidarity worker Ben Linder by U.S.-funded contra forces
May 21-June 1 Mayo Ya – Cultural tour to the Southern Autonomous Region of the Caribbean Coast, which is the heart of Nicaragua’s Indigenous and Afrodescendant communities.
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