Opening addresses at the National Police parade : "Don’t Trifle With Peace”
44th Anniversary of the National Police
September 12th 2023
Address by First Commissioner
Francisco Díaz Madriz
Director General of the National Police
Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of the Republic and Supreme Chief of the National Police.
Compañera Rosario Murillo Zambrana, Vice President of the Republic.
Compañero Gustavo Porras Cortés, President of the National Assembly.
Army General Julio César Avilés Castillo, Commander-in-Chief of our Nicaraguan Army.
Commissioner General Horacio Sebastián Rocha López, Minister Advisor to the President of the Republic for Security Affairs.
Compañera Amelia Coronel Kinloch, Minister of the Interior.
Major General Bayardo Ramón Rodríguez Ruiz, Chief of the General Staff of the Nicaraguan Army.
Comrade Loria Raquel Dixon Brautigam, First Secretary of the National Assembly.
Commissioner General Zhukov Serrano Pérez Deputy Director General of the National Police.
Presidents of the Institutions of Government, officials of our Good Government.
Ambassadors, Chargés d'affaires, Police, Military, Naval, Air and Security Attachés.
Compañer@s in retirement, Superior and Junior Officers, Compañer@s of the Heroic Volunteer Police.
Relatives of Police Compañeras and Compañeros fallen in the line of duty.
Women and men of the media.
Thanks to everyone for joining us.
Our National Police, in commemoration of the 44th Anniversary of its Constitution, dedicates this Police Display “Don't Trifle With Peace”, to individuals, families and communities.
This afternoon we parade in honor of the legacy of our National Heroes: the General of Free Women and Men Augusto C. Sandino, Rigoberto López Pérez, Comandante Carlos Fonseca Amador, as well as the founder of our National Police, ComandanteTomás Borge Martínez.
We pay tribute to 522 brother and sister police officers and 42 brother and sister volunteer police officers who during these 44 years of our institution have given their lives in fulfillment of our mission to protect individuals, families and communities, guaranteeing Peace and Security.
Nicaraguan families, our National Police, emerged from the heart of the People, today it parades firmly, alongside our people, proud of our origin, We are Sandinistas, we ratify our vocation of service, loyalty and obedience to our Supreme Leader Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Compañera Rosario Murillo Zambrana.
In this parade of the police force “Don't Trifle With Peace” 34 blocks of 2,320 policemen are taking part, we highlight the participation of 819 women compañeras, representing the National Specialties, Support Bodies and Territorial Delegations of the National Police, and 2 blocks of compañeras and compañeros of the Volunteer Police “Comandante Julio Buitrago Urroz”.
We parade with 152 transport units assigned for the fulfillment of our constitutional mission to protect the life and physical integrity of people and their property, preventing and investigating crimes and traffic accidents, combating organized crime and international drug trafficking.
Brothers and Sisters of the Police, today we parade with the commitment to continue working for the Peace, Security and Tranquility of individuals, families and communities, faithful to our principles and values of Patriotism, Solidarity, Vocation of Service, Esprit de Corps, Integrity and Gender Equity, willing to fight crime and vice and disposed to offer their lives out of Love.
HONOR AND GLORY TO OUR HEROES AND MARTYRS!
LONG LIVE THE 44TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL POLICE
¡¡VIVA, VIVA, VIVA!!!
LONG LIVE THE VOLUNTEER POLICE
COMMANDER JULIO BUITRAGO URROZ
¡¡VIVA, VIVA, VIVA!!!
AT 44 YEARS OF LIFE¡
NATIONAL POLICE, DON'T TRIFLE WITH PEACE!
Address by Daniel
Good evening, Nicaraguan brothers and sisters. Today, at the opening of this Event, the National Police Parade on its 44th Anniversary, we have received the Torch of Liberty on the 167th Anniversary of the struggle in Central America against the Yankee invaders. And, together with this Torch traveling through Central America goes the Spirit of General José Dolores Estrada, goes the Spirit of Andrés Castro, goes the Spirit, the Courage, the Heroism of those who gave their lives to defend their Nation.
Beloved brother, Compañero First Commissioner Francisco Díaz, Head of the National Police; beloved brother, Compañero Army General Julio César Avilés Castillo; beloved Brother, Compañero, Doctor Gustavo Porras, President of the National Assembly; beloved brothers, Compañeros Commissioner General Horacio Rocha, Commissioner General Zhukov Serrano; Minister of the Interior, Compañera Amelia Coronel, beloved Compañera, beloved sister; beloved brothers, Major General Bayardo Rodríguez, Chief of the General Staff of the Nicaraguan Army, and beloved sister of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, First Secretary of the National Assembly, Loria Dixon.
Also joining us here are our Compañera Alba Luz Ramos Vanegas, Magistrate and President of the Supreme Court of Justice; Heroic Compañera Brenda Isabel Rocha Chacón, Magistrate and President of the Supreme Electoral Council; Commissioner General Aldo Sáenz, Deputy Director General of the National Police; Commissioner General Jaime Vanegas Vega, Inspector General of the National Police; our beloved Compañera, guerrilla fighter in the insurrection and today Attorney General of the Republic, Ana Julia Guido Ochoa.
Beloved Comrade General in Retirement, but giving battle at the international level, leading the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, also a fellow guerrilla fighter and combatant in the war of the 1980s, General Denis Moncada Colindres.
Our recognition to the guerrilla and brigade Comandante, our brother René Vivas Lugo. He comes from guerrilla combat and also comes from the defense of the Revolution from the Yankee aggression of the 1980s.
Beloved guerrilla Comandante Doris Tijerino Haslam, a Nicaraguan Hero.
Beloved brother and sister members of the Cabinet of our Government of Reconciliation and National Unity; beloved Members of the National Police Council; beloved brother and sister founders of the National Police; beloved Police Chiefs in honorable retirement; beloved members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Republic of Nicaragua; Defense, Military, Naval, Air and Police Attachés, accredited to the Republic of Nicaragua.
Police Chiefs in Honorable Retirement; sisters and brothers all; brother Lumberto Campbell, guerrilla Comandante.
These are times of challenges, of difficulties testing the revolutionary mettle of those who in our region of Latin America and the Caribbean at some point even took up arms to overthrow a pro-imperialist government in the service of Capital, in the service of drug trafficking.
There are those who have stood firm throughout history, as all of you have stood firm, beloved brothers and sisters of the National Police, brothers and sisters of the Army, Sandinista sisters and brothers. Others take part for a while but when the conditions become adverse, then cowardice makes them change sides, cowardice makes them become agents of the Yankee Empire, and makes them betrayers, they betray themselves, betray those who gave their lives when they were leading those guerrilla movements.
Without beating about the bush, I want to refer to the person who is today the President of Colombia, yes, he was a guerrilla, incredibly, he was a guerrilla and a guerrilla victim of the campaigns of the pro-imperialist ruling class in Colombia, among all the guerrilla movements that emerged from the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, headed by someone who never backed down and who died in combat, Comandante Manuel Marulanda Velez, to whom I had the honor of awarding the Order of Sandino in the mountains of Colombia, pinning it on his chest.
Those are the indispensable ones. The others become detritus, after struggles that they led, like Petro, where many Colombian brothers and sisters fell in combat, giving battle out of their heart, their conscience, their dignity.
Well, now Petro has become President of Colombia, a State serving the Yankees, a State that is full, full yes, of military bases of the Yankee Empire, but when he was fighting with the guerrillas Petro said that he was anti-imperialist .
So what are you waiting for, Petro, to get rid of the Yankee military bases in Colombia? He has changed sides, and the turncoats are banding together, now they feel burned as if by a chili pepper after I told the truth yesterday, that the Chilean military and the carabineros have been murderers, that they murdered an entire people and an entire political project 50 years ago when they staged the coup d'état against the Martyr Hero President, Salvador Allende. They've become upset because I said they were criminals.
If with the government of this other individual, who is supposed to come from the Left, because Leftist forces, forces of the People supported him in the electoral struggle, I am referring to this other individual, who swore he was going to punish the murderers of young people, of Chile's Youth who are always giving and have indeed been giving the battle, of the Chilean Revolutionaries who have given and continue to give the battle, because they know that Chile is not a democracy.
Chile is still kept in chains by the laws left behind by Pinochet, it is still chained to imperialism, that is the truth, and they must accept it. And the Chile's Youth, the revolutionary forces who maintain their principles know this and continue the fight.
And those carabineros whom the Chilean government says are angels and are beloved by the Chilean people, under the government of the previous president, under Piñera, back then the current President of Chile was shouting out, criticizing Piñera and saying that if he came to govern he would put him in prison and that he was going to put an end to the carabineros. Why? Because under the Piñera government more than 9,000 young people were repressed by the Carabineros in the streets of Santiago and other cities, losing their sight, blinded. Those are crimes that you can't cover up, Boric, you can't cover it up, Boric. You are a mini-Pinochet, Boric, that's what you are, a mini-Pinochet.
And the other individual, Petro, what a shame, a disgrace, a shame for those who fought in the guerrilla movement that he led, for those who gave their lives in the guerrilla movement that he led. He has betrayed their blood! Show everyone, Petro, that you have some dignity and expel and close the Yankee bases that you have there in Colombia!
That indeed is a failed state, as they say, where people are murdered every day, students are murdered every day, teachers are murdered, peasants are murdered, every day we hear news of how they are murdered there in Colombia, every day. And it is also a State that is crossed out, of course, since the Yankees are there and the biggest consumers of drugs are the Yankees, no doubt they also do good business out of the drug trade, because it is a State totally complicit in drug trafficking.
The Yankees have a false, hypocritical attitude regarding the fight against drug trafficking and money laundering, because in the United States the biggest banks receive the largest amounts of the billions and billions of dollars from the drug traffickers, but no one closes those banks, not even when there is a law suit against them. What happens? They get a fine.
In other words, there is a combination of a lack of Values, a lack of Conscience, a lack of Humanity, firstly on the part of Yankee imperialism, and then, secondly, from these traitors, sell-outs, turncoats, who betrayed the compañeras and compañeros who gave their lives in combat for the guerrilla forces they led. That other individual has not, that fellow Boric has not been a guerrilla, since after all he is a mini-gorilla, a goriletti that fellow Boric.
Now, beloved Nicaraguan brothers and sisters, we are going to receive our brothers and sisters of the National Police in their parade, today, on the 44th Anniversary of their foundation. Proceed, General Diaz!
Remarks by Rosario Vice President of Nicaragua
after our National Police parade
September 12th 2023
A very good evening, Compañeras and Compañeros; beloved families of this Nicaragua of Blessings and Prosperity, because we work, we strive to overcome. That's why we affirm: Blessings, Prosperity and Victories!
Here we are, as Nicaraguans affirming our Strength, here we are, advancing in Peace and Well Being, precisely with the feeling of deep Dignity and Gratitude to God, because he gives us the Strength of Spirit, the Strength to never give up, as others have done.
How terrible...! While Commander Daniel was talking about those traitors, those who are already in the dustbin of history, we were saying, we were thinking: Those are the unpresentables, the unpronounceables. While he was talking about the indispensable people, the great fighters of Our Latin and Caribbean America, whereas the traitors, who are always there, are cowards, unpresentable, unpronounceable. The truth is that history is not going to see them as more than that, People with neither character nor strength to continue carrying the banners forward.
I know people, whom I interviewed when I used to work as a journalist, who would say: We don't want to carry those standards anymore; let others do it. Yet now they present themselves as the standard-bearers... From what? From which Left? That's no kind of Left!
Those are the ones who have given up, those are the individuals who no longer fight, those are the people who when the hard times come, since everything comes along in life, when the hard times come they run away, with no regrets. They are shameless, and shame, for themselves, for their descendants, means they are shameless in the sense that it is difficult to look at oneself in a mirror when you know you gave up, that you chickened out, that you ran away. Such people have simply denied themselves the privilege of always fighting, always striving to overcome.
In life, as we said, everything may happen, and when we hear the accounts of those who think they deserve eternal laurels, even when they gave up, we say: How shameless!
How is it possible that people who dedicated themselves to personal business, who dedicated themselves to enjoy the good life, because it is not the same to give one’s life over completely to the service of others, which is what Christ Jesus commands us, as to live for oneself only, always trying to take more from other people, just like the unnameable capitalists do.
These are complex times the World is living through, but we will come out of these complex times strengthened, when our character, idiosyncrasies, steadfastness and strength accompany each of our actions and each of our days thinking, as Christians, about others not thinking about ourselves. That's the most important thing.
First of all, to be faithful to oneself, to the causes that one has defended, to be faithful to the blood that has been spilled, and to be faithful, above all, to those values that illuminate all times, the hard times and the times of maturity, the joyful and the good times. There is everything in Life, a we said, and for all times we must show character, we must have sanity, we must show restraint, and we must have intelligence and sensitivity that makes it possible, precisely, to bring about days of Fraternity, of Unity, because we think of others.
44 years of overcoming...! We say, life has no straight lines, and everything is there, but when you continue to fight for a Better Life for so many human beings, every day and all times become useful and good for that Blessed, Blessed Cause: Christian, Socialist and Solidarity Values, Love of God above all things, and Love of our Neighbor.
Here in this Nicaragua of so much Faith, of so much Steadfastness, of so much Strength and of so much Love, We Are Making Our Way Forward, defending the Right to Live in Peace. Peace is not to be trifled with! For the Right to Live Better, working in Security, with Peace of Mind, and managing to Prosper.
These are, we said, difficult times, the threats of every day, those who promote aggression despite knowing that their People are working, as is their Right, to achieve a Better Life. Those other people can say what they like, but the rest of us know they are cowards who cover up their cowardice by insulting others.
What a sad role for those who gave up have come to play, the nameless ones, the unpronounceable ones, the dispensable ones, because they themselves abandoned their post in the struggle.
Here we are, 44 years and we make our way onward, Blessed, Prosperous and Victorious, because we have Good Faith, Good Heart, Love for God and Love for our Neighbor, and because we have the Dignity to advance based on our Merits, our Rights, our History, our Truths, our Memory, and above all demanding No Return!
Hugs to all Nicaragua’s Families, as we look forward, to the day after tomorrow, to the Parades, the colorful Parades of Schools everywhere, of Schools everywhere, giving Honor and Glory to the Heroes of San Jacinto, to our National Heroes. And every day also paying Tribute, Honor and Glory to all those who have given their lives for our Nation, to their Families... As we said to them yesterdau, to their Families, Honor and Glory!
We Nicaraguans feel proud to be Nicaraguans, by God's Grace, and to be part of a Heroic, Dignified, Noble, Sovereign History, Blessed by God!
Thank you, Compañeras and Compañeros.