Opening Words in 45th Anniversary Parade of the Ministry of the Interior
and the National Police "Peace is All of Us”
October 15th 2024
Address by María Amelia Coronel Kinloch
Minister of the Interior
Good evening, Comandante Daniel Ortega, President of the Republic, Supreme Head of the Ministry of the Interior and National Police; Compañera Rosario Murillo, Vice President of the Republic; Army General, General Julio César Avilés, Commander-in-Chief of our Nicaraguan Army.
Compañero Gustavo Porras, President of the National Assembly; First Commissioner Francisco Díaz, National Director of our National Police; Commissioner General Luis Cañas, Deputy Minister of the Interior; Commissioner General Horacio Rocha, Minister Advisor to the President of the Republic for Security Affairs; Major General Bayardo Ramón Rodríguez, Chief of the General Staff; Major General Marvin Elías Corrales, Inspector General of our Nicaraguan Army.
Compañera Carla Eugenia Salinas, Deputy Minister of the Interior; Commissioner General Zhukov Serrano, Deputy Director General of the National Police; Compañero Liu Guozhou Vice-Governor and Director General of Public Security of the Guandong Province of the People's Republic of China; Compañero Chen Xi, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Nicaragua.
Compañera Svetlana Petrova, Charge d'affaires of the Russian Federation in Nicaragua; Colonel Alexander Tsilik, Director of the Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Nicaragua.
Representatives of the State Powers, Members of the Cabinet of our Government, Military, Police, Naval and Air Attachés; Members of the National Council, Departmental and Municipal Co-Headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police.
Brothers and Sisters now retired from the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police; Brothers and Sisters who founded the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police and who are still in Active Service; Relatives of our Brothers and Sisters who gave their Lives in fulfillment of their Duty in the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police; Women and Men of the Media; Nicaraguan Brothers and Sisters, thank you all for joining us.
The Ministry of the Interior and the National Police, in Commemoration of its 45th Anniversary of Foundation, dedicate this Parade “Peace is All of Us”, to the Nicaraguan People, reaffirming our Commitment to ensure Peace, Security and Tranquility.
This afternoon we parade in Honor of the Legacy of our National Heroes, the General of Free Men and Women Augusto César Sandino, Rigoberto López Pérez, Comandante Carlos Fonseca Amador, as well as our Founder Comandante Tomás Borge Martínez.
We pay tribute to our Brothers and Sisters of the Ministry of the Interior, and to all the Police Officers who during these 45 years have offered their Lives in fulfillment of our Mission.
Nicaraguan families, the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police, we have advanced via effective integration, recovering our Strengths, the Unity of all our Forces, in defense of Citizen and Sovereign Security.
We will not allow anyone to fragment, divide or decompose us, as they have done in the past, because we want to always have a Free Patriotic Nation, Forever Dignified, Forever Sovereign.
The Ministry of the Interior, after many years, returns now on parade, together with our National Police, continuing to be the Sentinels of the Joy of our People.
In this Parade “Peace is All of Us”, 10 Blocks of the Ministry of the Interior with 574 personnel are taking part, highlighting the participation of 271 Women Compañeras and our three Director Generals, representing our Penitentiary System, our United Firefighters and our Office of Migration and Foreigners.
We parade with 8 engines of our United Firefighters, assigned to protect Life and property, materials of Nicaraguan Families, through the timely extinguishing of fires, search and rescue.
We reaffirm our Commitment to safeguard the Rights and Peace of our People, always working with determination and Unity in defense of our Sovereignty. Always loyal to our Supreme Leadership, to our Heroes and Martyrs and to all Nicaragua's Families.
Thank you very much.
Address by First Commissioner Francisco Díaz Madriz,
Director General of the National Police
Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of the Republic and Supreme Head of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police.
Compañera Rosario Murillo Zambrana, Vice President of the Republic.
Army General Julio César Avilés Castillo, Commander-in-Chief of our Nicaraguan Army.
Compañero Gustavo Porras Cortés, President of the National Assembly.
Compañera María Amelia Coronel Kinloch, Minister of the Interior.
Compañero Luis Cañas Novoa, Vice Minister of the Interior.
Commissioner General Horacio Sebastián Rocha López, Minister Advisor to the President of the Republic for Security Affairs.
Major General Bayardo Ramón Rodríguez Ruiz, Chief of the General Staff of the Nicaraguan Army.
Major General Marvin Elías Corrales Rodríguez, Inspector General of the Nicaraguan Army.
Compañera Karla Eugenia Salinas, Vice Minister of the Interior
Commissioner General Zhukov Serrano Pérez, Deputy Director General of the National Police.
Compañero, Brother, Compañero Liu Guozhou, Vice Governor and Director of the Public Security Department of Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China.
Compañero Chen Xi, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Nicaragua.
Compañera Svetlana Petrova, Chargé d'affaires of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Nicaragua.
Colonel Alexander Tsilik, Director of the Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Nicaragua.
Presidentss of the State Powers
Members of the Cabinet of Our Good Government
Military, Police, Naval and Air Attachés.
Members of the National Council, Departmental and Municipal Co-Heads of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police.
Brothers and Sisters in retirement from the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police.
Brothers and Sisters founders of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police who continue in active service.
Relatives of our Brothers and Sisters who gave their lives in fulfillment of their Duty in the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police.
Women and Men of the Media.
Nicaraguan Brothers and Sisters!
Thank you all for joining us tonight.
The Ministry of the Interior and the National Police, in commemoration of the 45th Anniversary of its foundation, dedicate this Parade “Peace is All of Us” to the People of Nicaragua.
Peace as a guarantee of the present and the future, is everyone's responsibility, Peace so that our Good Government continues to bring progress and prosperity to families and communities.
We pay tribute to our National Heroes, to the 524 Police Brothers and the 42 Volunteer Police Brothers who during 45 years of the life of our Institution offered their Lives in fulfillment of their service, protecting Individuals, Families and Communities, leaving among us a Legacy of Dedication and Love to our People.
They are heroes and heroines of Peace and Security. Their legacy lives on in our hearts and we commit ourselves with them to be better Sentinels of Peace and Security every day.
With much pride we parade Compañer@s of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police, “Peace is All of Us", with 36 blocks participating, 2,234 Compañeros and Compañeras, 937 Women and 1,297 Men, with 8 fire engines and 100 police motorcycles.
Brothers and Sisters of the Ministry of the Interior and National Police, today we parade reaffirming our commitment to preserve and defend Peace in National Sovereignty and Dignity.
Honor and Glory to our Heroes and Martyrs!
45 years on: Ministry of the Interior, National Police, Peace is All of Us!!!
Long live the Volunteer Police...!
Comandante Julio Buitrago Urroz
¡¡Viva, Viva, Viva!!!
Good Evening.
Address by Daniel
Nicaraguan brothers and sisters; Families who accompany us, who are present for this Event via the Media, which transmitting as far as the Coco River to the River San Juan, to the Communities, Municipalities and Departments of the Center, North and South of the country, to the Caribbean Coast and the Pacific Coast, for all of you, Beloved Brothers and Sisters, our Affection.
And in this case, today, on the Commemoration of the 45th Anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police, this Parade will begin on this Avenue of Heroes, the Avenue that goes from Bolívar to Chávez. Bolívar who is also accompanied by our Heroes, the Heroes who fought against the conquistadors, the Heroes who fought against the Yankee expansionists; General Zeledón who fought and gave his life for the Dignity and Sovereignty of Nicaragua, and our General Sandino who gave that Heroic Battle, in which the Yankee invaders failed to defeat him.
And none of us can help but remember what happened. Our General fought for years and the Yankees used all kinds of weapons, they used aviation, how many times they bombed the El Chipote encampment, how many times they tried to assassinate the Comandantes of the Army in Defense of National Sovereignty, but they couldn't, and then they had to leave.
They left and what was to be expected took place, that Peace would come to Nicaragua, because the invaders had already retreated, defeated, and then our General Sandino, when the President was President Sacasa, had by then come down from the mountains to Managua and on one of those visits to Managua for reaching the Peace Agreement with the Sacasa government, Somoza appeared on one of the first visits.
Somoza greeted General Sandio, and embraced him, and there is that picture for history, the embrace of Judas, embracing Sandino, when Somoza had already prepared the assassination, prepared it with the Yankees, together with the Yankee Ambassador and the Yankee military representation here in Nicaragua. Then, on another trip that Sandino made here to Managua, already concluding talks, President Sacasa offered him a dinner at the Presidential House.
The Presidential House was, at that time, on the Avenue that goes parallel to the Bolivar, which Somoza in his servility had named Roosevelt Avenue. The Central Avenue had been named Roosevelt Avenue.
In the struggles against Somocismo, who fought us then as Nicaragua's patriotic Youth, when the Sandinista Front had not yet been founded, in a demonstration here in Managua, along the Avenue that Somoza had baptized as Roosevelt Avenue, we marched there, all young people, young men and women students, so as to baptize that Avenue with the name of Sandino Avenue.
Of course, the National Guard appeared, they were Guardsmen, since there were no Police there, they were Guardsmen who arrived with their Garand rifles, and they began to shoot bullets, to batter and disperse the demonstration that covered a good part of the Avenue.
The Presidential House was in the background, there where the Sandino Monument is now overlooking the Tiscapa Lagoon, there was the Presidential House, and on that occasion, President Sacasa, not knowing what the Yankees had planned with Somoza, invited General Sandino to dinner at the Presidential House.
And General Sandino went with three leaders of the Army in Defense of National Sovereignty. Well, they had dinner, President Sacasa's daughter was also accompanying the dinner. After dinner was over, in the evening, Sandino came down from the Presidency to go to the house where he was staying and where Colonel Santos López was staying.
And when they come down and they were just passing close to here, parallel to the point where the Carlos Aguero is today, then it was the Campo Marte, exactly at that point, the genocidal Somoza Guard was waiting for General Sandino, and they detained him. He was being driven in a car, the car stopped because the Guardsmen were laying in wait there with their rifles.
President Sacasa's daughter came following General Sandino and when she saw that the Guardsmen laying in wait were ordering Sandino and his companions to get down from the car, she ran and told them that it was General Sandino coming after having dinner with her father, and there was no cause, but there they took him and shot him along with the other Generals who accompanied him.
As for the exact spot where Sandino was shot, well, a former military officer who was an officer of the Somoza Guard, indicated that the place where they took him was there where the Ajax Delgado is now, on the Northern Highway where the Ajax Delgado Police Station is, named in tribute to another Hero killed by Somoza, a young boy, Ajax, who was taken there, there they sat him and the other compañeros on some stones.
There was General Sandino, Umanzor, Estrada, then Sandino and the Generals sitting there and they shot them. Simultaneously, they struck the house of Sofonías Salvatierra which was where Sócrates Sandino was staying, Colonel Santos López was there, but Colonel Santos managed to escape, and they killed a child there in the house when they went after Sócrates and they went after Santos López.
Wounded, Colonel Santos López managed to escape, and then he was the living link to the Army in Defense of National Sovereignty, when he then participated after meeting the young men and women, he came to know and from there was born the Sandinista National Liberation Front. And we can say shouting it at the top of our lungs, that General Sandino never died, that Sandino lives in the Nicaraguan People, he lives in the Army and the Police, he lives in the Peasants, he lives in the Young People, he lives in the Students.
The students' matriculation has already started, and in fact, we know very well, General Díaz, that the police play a crucial role providing care, protecting, so that there are no problems, so that there are no accidents, so that no criminals carry out assaults. That is to say, guaranteeing Peace, that is the great objective of the Institutions that were born with the Revolution, the Institutions that are no more nor less than the continuity of the Army in Defense of National Sovereignty.
The Nicaraguan Army, the Ministry of the Interior, the National Police, all are Continuations of the Army in Defense of National Sovereignty, such that defending Peace is defending National Sovereignty; defending Justice is defending National Sovereignty; defending the Right to Education and Health is defending National Sovereignty.
And in the Struggles we are waging in these Times, as we explained yesterday, to eradicate Poverty, to improve the living conditions of our People, Education, Health, Housing, etc., in all these Struggles the Army, the Ministry of the Interior, the National Police, the different Directorates of the Ministry of the Interior, our Firefighters too play a fundamental role... Of course!
The Institutions that mobilize during natural disasters, floods, tremors or earthquakes; all of them are Institutions that have been forged with the Spirit of Sandino, defending National Sovereignty to guarantee the Security of the People, to guarantee the Peace of Nicaraguans.
Today, beloved Nicaraguan Brothers and Sisters, we give you a big embrace from this Glorious Avenue of Heroes, with Compañera Rosario, Vice President; with Compañera María Amelia Coronel, Minister of the Interior; with Army General Julio César Avilés; with Compañero Gustavo Porras, President of the National Assembly; with First Commissioner Francisco Javier Díaz Madriz, Director General of the National Police.
With the compañeros and compañeras who have arrived from distant Lands, from the People's Republic of China, and who today are accompanied by the Army General, Vice Governor of Guangdong Province and Director General of Public Security in the People's Republic of China, Brother Lui Guozhou; also the Representative of the People, Government and Communist Party of China, Chen Xi, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China.
Embraces and greetings to them also from Commissioner General Luis Cañas, Deputy Minister of the Interior; from Commissioner General Horacio Sebastián Rocha, Minister Advisor to the President of the Republic.
Embraces and greetings from Major General Bayardo Ramón Rodríguez Ruiz, Chief of the General Staff of our Nicaraguan Army; from Major General Marvin Elías Corrales, Inspector General of our Nicaraguan Army.
Likewise, to the Compañeros and the Compañera here representing the Russian Federation and President Putin, Compañera Svetlana Petrova, there Compañera Carla Eugenia Salinas García, Deputy Minister of the Interior.
Colonel Vladimir Alexandrovich Tsilik, Director of the Specialized Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Nicaragua, to him and to all the Brothers and Sisters working on this Mission to strengthen Security and Peace in Nicaragua.
To all of you, on their behalf, our greeting, our embrace, Nicaraguan Brothers and Sisters; likewise, on behalf of President Xi Jinping, well represented, representing the People, the Government and the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China here.
Good evening, Nicaraguan Brothers and Sisters, good evening, now we are going to the Parade, and while they are marching, you Nicaraguan Brothers and Sisters will be accompanying them, participating in this Victory Parade.
Long live the Ministry of the Interior!
Long live the National Police!
Long live the Nicaraguan Army!
Sandino Lives On!
For a Free Nation!
Declarations of Rosario, Vice President of Nicaragua, after the Parade "Peace is All of Us”
for the 45th Anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police
October 15th 2024
Good evening, beloved Families of this Nicaragua of Ours, with so much Brilliance, so much Pride, with so much Heroism.
How the names of the Heroes resonate, how they pulsate, when we hear the Sacred Name of Leonel Rugama. "Let your Mother surrender!", that is the example he left us with his miraculous life.
How Comandante Julio Buitrago Urroz resonates, another Exemplary Life, Miraculous Legend! They are Legends...!
How Julián Roque resonates with the National Police Music Corps...!
How the Heroic Sandinista Combatants, Guerrillas, resonate from Sandino and from our Original People's Heroes too...!
How the Indomitable Spirit of the Nicaraguan People resonates, and today we are celebrating, grateful to God, because he has given us the Strength to ensure Peace. Because without God, there is nothing.
With God, we have the strength to transcend all hard, difficult circumstances, and above all, to guarantee the Blessing of Peace. Peace and Security. The Peace that is the Right of our People to live with National Sovereignty; with Sovereign Citizen Security. The Peace that allows us to advance along the Roads and the Paths of Combating Poverty.
The struggle is against Poverty, as well as the struggle for Security; against the crime we are fighting every day, so that Families can live with the Joy of an increasingly Secure Country.
We have been a Secure Country, the safest in our Region, and we must be increasingly secure, especially in the face of the serious threats and risks of these new Times in the World, where we must also forge, every day, National Unity, which we have, thank God, and Regional Unity.
So we feel grateful, blessed, victorious, and above all we know that Peace is All of Us, the responsibility for Peace and Security belongs to Everyone.
And too, each one of us, as proud Nicaraguans, great people, victors, all of us know that every day our Drive, our Energy, our Vigor, is dedicated to advancing, to overcome Poverty; to have more Schools, more Universities, as we have now; to have more Hospitals, more Health Centers; to have more Homes, more Streets, more Roads, more Bridges. To have the Joy of Progress, the Joy of Prosperity and that is the reality in this World of ours in which we live.
Others live in a sick world, they live in a World out of focus, because it is not real but fiction, it is artifice, it is perversion, it is evil, it is disease. It is the sickness of the wicked, of those who have sown and continue to sow Hatred, of those who seek to distort our Ways, the Ways of Tranquility and Prosperity of our People, those who every day attack the Well-being of our Families. But they have no effect, they are not real, they are fiction, they are artifice, they are disease, they are malignancy.
Here thank God, we are joyful, celebrating each other in Victories of Concord, Harmony, Family Values and Community Values, the Ideals that have always strengthened the Nicaraguan Soul... Nicaraguan, by the grace of God! And so Compañer@s, We Go Onward, Always Further On, with our Heroes, with our Martyrs, with our Heroic People who every day take further steps towards the Future we all deserve.
Warm embraces to all the Mothers, to all the Families, to all the responsible Fathers, whom we want to ever more responsible, and to all the Communities of our Blessed Nicaragua, Always Dignified, Always Proud, Always Solid, Forever Free.
A warm embrace. Thank you.