USSR2/Latin America Files: Soviet communists laud Sandinista victory, affirm Ortega still Marxist, "collapse" of USSR led capitalist nations into trap

For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
-- Jesus Christ, Mark 4:22

We believe that the restoration of a broken union [between the ex-Soviet republics] is our key goal, and we will continue our efforts to accomplish this task. Without a union between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other brotherly republics that used to be members of the Soviet Union, we do not have a future.
-- Gennady Zyuganov, Chair, Communist Party of the Russian Federation; statement made at plenary meeting of Council of Union of Communist Parties-CPSU, January 20, 2007

Yes, even the communists are tools in God's fist of judgment against the nations. Comrade Kuvaldin concludes his self-satisfied dissertation below by reminding the reader that the "collapse" of the Soviet Union led the capitalist nations into a trap from which there is no exit apart from world revolution. He offers freedom lovers everywhere one option: Prepare to save your you-know-what. (Yes, our smug red friend uses that very expression.)

According to Comrade Kuvaldin, moreover, the Sandinistas' electoral victory in November 2006 heralded an important advance in the Communist Bloc's dialectical zigzag through the last 90 years of history. This piece is posted at the website of the Moscow City Committee of the CPRF which, to enlighten any new visitors to this blog, is the Russian section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, restored in 2004 with no notice whatsoever by the West. The communist mantra "Communism is dead" was apparently very effective.

The translation below is courtesy Babelfish with some refinements from your resident blogger.

Elections in Nicaragua: The Crushing Victory of Revolutionary Marxist Daniel Ortega 07.11.2006
By Communist Gabriel Kuvaldin

In the presidential election of Nicaragua left candidate Daniel Ortega was supported by more than 40 percent of voters. His only competition was American protege Edward Montelegre, millionaire and former banker.

The present accession to power of Ortega can change the distribution of political forces in the Central American region. With him openly sympathize such opponents of the administration of George Bush as the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia.

Revolutionary Marxist and leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, Daniel Ortega first assumed power in the late 1970s when the Sandinistas overthrew the dictatorial regime of Samoza and expropriated the property of the rich.

A number of presidents of the countries of Latin America have openly embarked on a path of opposition to the dictates of Washington. The trio of rebellious presidents has become a quartet. Long hidden in the political shadows Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega returns in triumph to the presidential palace. In the course of his election campaign he received moral and material support from Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales. With the declaration of the preliminary results of the elections it was apparent that victory was unattainable for the other candidates. This occurred despite the fact that on the eve of the elections the White House repeatedly warned of an "inevitable worsening in the relations between the two countries, up to the application of sanctions" should Ortega reassume power. In these hours tens of thousands of Nicaraguans rejoiced under the red [and black] flags [of the FSLN] in the streets. The police did not interfere.

There is nothing surprising in the victory of Daniel Ortega. Its time simply arrived. Peace [communism] develops according to the dialectical laws founded by Karl Marx. Any attempt to stop the development of society is like trying to impede the rotation of the Earth around the sun.

Globalization is inevitable and connected with the process of the public [means of] production. But globalization unavoidably leads to the stratification of countries between the rich and the poor. As a result, the poor are forced to unite against the rich countries and against their [own] marionette governments. The population of the poor countries is the proletariat. But the proletariat has clear class interests.

Now the poor countries have intergovernmental organization [such as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas]. This means that their strength will increase due to the connections between the new countries. Where the stratification between the rich and the poor is great, the leftists unavoidably will arrive to power and will [then] join the Latin American group [Red Axis].

Any attempt by the imperialists to unleash war will lead to the defeat of imperialism because all of the poor will begin to war against them. And the war [moreover] will [unfold] according to the diagram designed in Russia, converting imperialist war into the civil [war against] the capitalists.

After the fall of the USSR capitalism, however strange it seems, fell into the trap from which there is no outcome except world communist revolution. The founding of the USSR "let out vapor from the overheated boiler of the hatred of poor for the rich." Now the "valve" is broken and the "boiler will explode." The elections in Nicaragua showed that the cusp was passed, and it means, young and foresighted gentlemen: Prepare to save your “zadnitsy.”

Source: Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

The Neo-Sandinista Regime Re-consolidates La Revolucion

Since Comandante Ortega's inauguration on January 10, 2007 he has committed Nicaragua to membership in the communist Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA), attempted to seize direct presidential control of the military and police forces, and reestablished a military pact with the Not-So-Former Soviet Union. With respect to ALBA, Comrade Kuvaldin noted, above: "Now the poor countries have intergovernmental organization. This means that their strength will increase due to the connections between the new countries. Where the stratification between the rich and the poor is great, the leftists unavoidably will arrive to power and will [then] join the Latin American group [Red Axis]." In attendance at his inauguration were the neo-communist presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, and more ominously, as President Vladimir Putin's personal envoy, former Russian prime minister and secret police director Sergei Stepashin ("ex"-CPSU). The Miami Herald article below observes, furthermore, that Comrade Daniel, wife Rosario, and the FSLN are already building parallel government structures that could "undermine Nicaragua's fragile democracy." Pictured here: President Ortega addresses Nicaragua's National Police, February 20. Below: Rosario.

Some call Ortega's wife power-hungry
Nicaragua's first lady is considered by many to be the power behind the presidency.
BY TIM ROGERS
Special to The Miami Herald

MANAGUA - A month after President Daniel Ortega took office, his Sandinista government has come under attack for creating powerful parallel governing institutions that could undermine Nicaragua's fragile democracy.

But it's not Ortega, an erstwhile Cold War nemesis of the United States, who's taking the heat. It's his wife, Rosario Murillo, an eccentric poet who some critics say may some day seek the presidency for herself.

Murillo, 55, who managed her husband's electoral campaign, now heads the Council on Communication and Citizenry, the most powerful of several new presidential advisory councils created almost immediately after Ortega took office on Jan. 10.

Murillo's job puts her in charge of ''coordinating the government's message,'' a task that apparently includes controlling government funds for publicity and propaganda. A Finance Ministry memo leaked to the media last month indicated it had allocated its advertising budget to Murillo's council.

Nicaraguan media leaders have complained the funds could be used to reward pro-Sandinista media with large advertising contracts, while punishing others by starving them of ad revenues.

Murillo's appointment has been challenged by the independent Permanent Commission on Human Rights and the opposition Conservative Party. Both have filed motions before the Supreme Court, arguing that her appointment violates laws against nepotism.

'We are concerned about the formation of a parallel government with a concentration of power in the figure of the first lady,'' said Vilma Núñez, president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, also an independent group. ``There is a confusion of roles. We don't know which is the president and which is the first lady, or the first husband.''

OLD FRIENDS GONE

For others, Murillo's power is a reflection of the fact that many members of Ortega's inner circle from his days as leader of the Marxist Sandinista government in the 1980s have left his side. And those hard-liners who remain loyal, such as Tomás Borge, Bayardo Arce and Lenin Cerna, are all rumored to have problems with Murillo, though none has said so publicly.

''Because of this, Rosario has been given the kind of power that should only be granted to officials who are accountable to the state,'' said Sandinista dissident and fellow poet Gioconda Belli. ``Besides, she has a vision of Daniel as the envoy of the Lord to the Nicaraguan people, and that kind of messianic reading of reality is dangerous for democracy.''

Murillo declined a Miami Herald request for comment, saying that all interviews will have to wait until after the organization of her new council is complete.

Known commonly as ''la Chayo,'' from the diminutive of Rosario, Murillo is by all accounts intelligent and astute. She has studied in Europe and speaks several languages. She was assistant to Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, then-publisher of La Prensa newspaper and a leading critic of the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship. During that time, Murillo married a member of the Sandinista guerrilla underground and had her first daughter, Zoilamérica Narváez.

After her first husband died, she joined Ortega in the late 1970s, when he was living clandestinely in Costa Rica. Narváez has publicly alleged that it was there, a year before the Sandinistas toppled the Somozas in 1979, that Ortega started to sexually abuse her at the age of 11. Both Murillo and Ortega have denied the allegations.

During Ortega's first government in the 1980s, Murillo played a lesser role as head of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers.

At that time, Murillo and Ortega were not officially married, and the role of first lady did not exist in revolutionary Nicaragua. The two married in a Catholic Church ceremony in 2005. They have seven children together.

Today, some critics speculate that Murillo's apparent leverage over Ortega may stem from years of being a ''silent accomplice'' to her daughter's alleged abuse.

''I am deeply convinced that Daniel has an unpayable debt to Murillo for her silence,'' said Nicaraguan feminist leader María Teresa Blandón.

DELEGATED POWER

Others say that Ortega doesn't answer to anyone.

''Any political power Murillo has is just delegated by Ortega. He hasn't given up anything,'' said political analyst and former Sandinista official Aldo Díaz Lacayo. ``Ortega's power is not in play; he is still the one wearing the pants.''

Blandón, however, insists that Murillo is positioning herself to become a Nicaraguan version of Argentina's famed Evita Perón, and may be considering a run for the presidency in 2011 despite her lack of public appeal and the lingering cloud of the Zoilamérica case.

'There won' be any 'Don't Cry for Me, Nicaragua,' because I don't think anyone would cry for her,'' Blandón said.

Source: Miami Herald