Support the MANIFESTO (with your signature): In Defence of Nicaragua

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Friends and comrades

The Manifesto "IN DEFENCE OF NICARAGUA" is the initiative of a group of Nicaraguans and internationalists aiming to awaken the international conscience about what is happening in this Central American country, victim of a fierce campaign of harrassment and destabilization carried out by forces of the local oligarchy, financed and directed by the United States and the most powerful of the European governments. If you agree with the Manifesto's content and want to support it please send an e-mail to:

carta@tortillaconsal.com

indicating your name, the town where you live and your country of residence. If you want to support the Manifesto as an organization please help us by indicating its country and the town or city where it is located. Likewise, if you have time available to help Nicaragua, we request that you circulate the Manifesto to those who may want to support it. We want to close the signature process for January 10th 2009 when the Sandinista government will complete two years in office.We hope to build an international wall in defence of Nicaragua.

Thank you for your solidarity.

MANIFESTO : In Defence of Nicaragua

Most of Latin America is in the process of irreversible change

Its peoples have elected governments that have taken the path of independence, dignity and sovereignty to shake off foreign tutelage that has submerged the region for centuries in misery and repression by force of arms.

In November 2006, the Nicaraguan people elected the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) to direct its destiny and from January 2007 the new government has taken up again the process of self-determination begun on July 19th 1979 which had been abandoned for 17 years by three neo-liberal, capitalist, anti-democratic, anti-nationalist governments.

Nicaragua has recovered its national dignity with a government independent of the imperial powers, one which again places the most impoverished at the centre of its development policies.

As part of this process, Nicaragua has joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and with the generous support of many peoples and governments, especially Cuba and Veenzuela, the Sandinista government has set up various programmes by means of which the Nicaraguan people have recovered a great deal of their social and economic rights, broadening the possibilities for socialist, democratic national progress.

But just as happened during the 1980s, when the United States launched its war of aggression against the Nicaraguan people and the Sandinista Popular Revolution, today Nicaragua has to face a ruthless campaign of lies and blackmail promoted from Washington and various European capitals, using the methods of information counter-insurgency, within a low intensity war, with the objective of blocking Nicaragua's independent development under the leadership of the government of President Daniel Ortega.

This campaign has surged in recent months with the objective of discrediting the unquestionable and categorical electoral victory of the FSLN in the municipal elections of November 9th last, when Nicaraguans validated with their votes their support for the country's new direction.

This campaign has reached the extreme of suspending development aid to the Nicaraguan people. It is unacceptable that the governments of developed countries should use as a political weapon for imperialist domination the money their own peoples assign to the most impoverished countries.

For all of these reasons, we free women and men who believe Another World is Possible, declare:

Our unconditional support for the right of the Nicaraguan people to self determination and national sovereignty, without foreign interference of any kind.
Our support for the independent, sovereign, popular, course taken by the FSLN government, led by President Daniel Ortega.
Our delight at the Sandinista victory in 105 out of 146 municipal authorities in this year's municipal elections.

We reject and condemn:

Foreign interference in Nicaragua's internal affairs.
The policy of blackmail used by the governments of the United States and the European Union.
The campaign of lies promoted by the international (dis)information corporations and multinationals.

We encourage:

All the world's peoples, especially in North America and Europe, to renew their links of friendship with Nicaragua, pressuring their respective governments to increase the sums destined to eradicate poverty in Nicaragua and to oblige them to desist from interfering in the internal affairs of the Nicaraguan people.
Social communicators, especially in alternative communications media, to break the silence on the situation in Nicaragua and to actively inform in a truthful, independent way on what is really happening in Nicaragua and the Central American region.
The progressive and independent governments of Latin America and the world to show their unrestricted solidarity with the Nicaraguan people and its legitimate, democratically elected government.

December 2008

Blanca Segovia Sandino, Nicaragua
Padre Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Presidente, Asamblea General, Organización de Naciones Unidas
Marbely Castillo C., Nicaragua
Walter Castillo Sandino, Nicaragua
Aldo Díaz Lacayo, escritor e historiador, Nicaragua
José Manuel Gutierrez, Nicaragua
William Grigsby Vado, periodista y escritor, Nicaragua
Karla Jacobs, writer, Nicaragua
Dick Emanuelsson, reportero, Honduras
toni solo, Nicaragua
Lidia Camacho, residente en Suecia, Uruguay
Manuel Talens, escritor, Spain
Oscar Ernesto Castillo, Nicaragua
Verónica Alemán Gutiérrez, Comité Canario de Solidaridad con los Pueblos,
Jeanne Laurent, Nicaragua
Salah Ahmine, Nicaragua
Felipe Stuart C., Nicaragua
Agustín Velloso Santisteban, Profesor universitario, Madrid, España
Carlos Corea L., Marseille, France
Marialuisa Atienza Salamero, Managua, Nicaragua
Guillermo Antonio González, Vice-Alcalde, Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua
Omar Alfonso de la Fuente, Nicaragüense, Zaragoza, España
Azucena de la Fuente Yusta, Zaragoza, España
Joakin Alfonso Marin, Zaragoza, España
Paul Fortis, Ottawa, Canada
Engels F. Villanueva López
Arq. Marlon Enrique Murillo, Managua, Nicaragua
Zoltan Tiroler, Suecia
Carlos Loaisiga Gonzalez, La Coruña, España
Elias Bonilla, León, Nicaragua
Tere Prado, Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala
Humberto Vargas Carbonell, Secretario General Partido Vanguardia Popular, Costa Rica
Evelyn Martínez Orozco, Nicaragua
Luis Beaton Fonseca, periodista, Cuba
Julie Webb-Pullman, writer, Mexico
Herman Van de Velde, cooperante, Estelí, Nicaragua
Maribel Ochoa, cooperante, Estelí, Nicaragua
Gunnel Lindblom, Canelones, Uruguay
Alberto Sipione, Managua, Nicaragua
Roger Ivan Ortega Rodriguez, Nicaragua
Aritza Matilde Sirias Schoenichg, Nicaragua
Valeria Dimitrova Ortega Sirias, Nicaragua
Aritza Lolita Ortega Sirias, Nicaragua
Fabrizio Casari, Director, altrenotizie.org, Italia
Enrique Miranda Tapia, Nicaragua
Nelson del Castillo, periodista, FELAP, Puerto Rico
Mercedes A. Mejía, Nicaragua
Jorge Capelán, periodista, Malmö, Suecia
Paul Baker Hernandez, singer/songwriter/author, Managua Nicaragua
Dra. Janina Guerrero, Presidente, Asociación Nicaraguense de Promoción de la Paz Mundial PROPAZMUN
Yamil Alberto Rìos Acuña, profesor de Religión, Managua, nicaragua
Ing. Antonio Gonzalez Telleria, docente, UCC, RUCFA, Managua, Nicaragua
Dorotea Granada, enfermera, Mulukuku, Nicaragua
José Manuel Moncada Fonseca, Managua, Nicaragua
Natalia Viana Nebot, Castellón, España
Michael Parenti, Ph.D., author and scholar USA
Francisco Prado,ingeniero,Nicaragua( residente en Honduras)
Cristóbal Reyes Legrá, La Habana , Cuba
Nicolette Gianella, profesora, Suiza, residente en Nicaragua
Sandra Roberta Guevara, Nicaragua
Virgilio Ponce, Francia
Jim Holdom, Hamilton, New Zealand
Nicolò Gueci
Günter Pohl, periodista, Alemania
Núria Suñé Rams, Barcelona, España
Gregoire Cary, education Amerique Latine, France
EL DIABLO, http://eldiablo.over-blog.org
Maria Söderquist, Lund, Suecia
Moisés Benigno Sediles Ramos, nicaragüense, Bogotá, Colombia
Alfredo Viloria, Barquisimeto, Venezuela, lavozdelaciudad.com.ve
Eva Björklund, arquitecto, Estocolmo, Suecia
Lic. Adrián Germán Palacios Baca, economista, Managua, Nicaragua
Halfaoui Ahmed, Alger. Algérie
Jorge Armando Tassart, Huerta Grande, Cordoba, Argentina
Les Blough, Editor, Axis of Logic (http://axisoflogic.com), Boston and Caracas, Venezuela