July 19th is a national holiday to celebrate Revolution Day. This year Nicaragua celebrated 28 years since the Sandanista revolution triumfed and overthrew the Somoza dictatorship which had ruled for some 60 years.
This year the celebrations where somewhat grander than in recent years as the current ruling party, the FSLN (sandinistas), who were voted back into power at the end of 2006, where those that lead the revolution and guided it through the war years if the 1980's.
They were not going to let the party slip by quietly.
A whole host of Latin American leaders from the leftist movement were invited, and the whole affair was compared very fluidly by Rosario Murillo , the wife of president Daniel Ortega (and in thr opinion of many the driving force of the government).
Perhaps the most passionate of the evenings speeches was that of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. No matter what opions one has of Señor Chavez, his politics, beliefs or behaviour, no-one can deny that he has quite astounding presence and delivers with quite mesmorizing passion. Watching and listening to him yet again hound the U.S. and promte a united Latin America I couldn't help but think I was witnessing a small piece of history.
This year the celebrations where somewhat grander than in recent years as the current ruling party, the FSLN (sandinistas), who were voted back into power at the end of 2006, where those that lead the revolution and guided it through the war years if the 1980's.
They were not going to let the party slip by quietly.
A whole host of Latin American leaders from the leftist movement were invited, and the whole affair was compared very fluidly by Rosario Murillo , the wife of president Daniel Ortega (and in thr opinion of many the driving force of the government).
Perhaps the most passionate of the evenings speeches was that of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. No matter what opions one has of Señor Chavez, his politics, beliefs or behaviour, no-one can deny that he has quite astounding presence and delivers with quite mesmorizing passion. Watching and listening to him yet again hound the U.S. and promte a united Latin America I couldn't help but think I was witnessing a small piece of history.
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