Central Event in Commemoration of the 46th Anniversary
of the Sandinista Popular Revolution
July 19th 2025
Address by Compañera Rosario
This, Comrades, is the Force of Peace. We see it, we feel it, we know it, No One Surrenders Here...! Here No One Surrenders!
Long live Nicaragua’s Youth!
Long live the Women, the Families, the Heroic and Victorious People of our Blessed, Always Sacred and Forever Free Nicaragua!
Long live the Combants of Peace!
Long live those who Fight for Peace!
Long live Peace!
Long live the Love and Affection!
Long Live Our Heroic, Blessed, Victorious Nicaragua!
Long live the Sandinista National Liberation Front!
Long live the Sandinista Popular Revolution!
Long live Daniel!
Long live Daniel!
Long live Daniel!
Long live Daniel, although they choose not listen to him!
Here No One Surrenders !
Long live the Peace!
In this Plaza of Faith... In this Celebration of Faith... In this Blessed, Sovereign Nicaragua, Always Dignified and Forever Free... From the Heart of our Proud, Brave and Heroic People, who have waged the most Glorious Battles against all forms of domination, exploitation, and interference in our own affairs... In this Nicaragua that has fought and defeated the Imperialists of the Earth... we speak with the Undefeated Soul of the world’s Peoples, and of the uplifted Conscience of every courageous, decent, honest and honorable Nicaraguan, who managed to travel all the Roads and all the Crossroads of our History, with our Banners high, proclaiming the Victories of Reason, of the Heart and of the Great Spirit, which is Intense and Immense Love, that Great Spirit that inhabits and animates the Forces and Strengths of this Glorious Patriotic Nation, where we have always gone Further On, fighting for Peace, Freedom and the Rights of Everyone...
From this Plaza of Faith where the Strength, the Fortress of Peace, which we jealously guard and defend, is self-evident, with Infinite Pride we gather, come together, embrace, talk, and understand each other, because we know that Concord is our Duty, our Sacred Responsibility, and that the Peace that costs us so much, and for which so many hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans have given their Lives, is our highest Cultural Heritage, our Heroic Heritage, and the Essence of our deepest and genuine Conviction of Triumphs, and of the Future.
From this Plaza of Faith, where we are living out July 19th, in the 46th Year of the Great Triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution that forever changed the history of Nicaragua... From this Square of Faith, filled with the Souls of all those thousands and thousands of Brothers and Sisters who gave their Lives so that we can be here today, blessing them and proclaiming them Heroes of all Times... From this Plaza of Faith, Patriotic Love vibrates, Love for Nicaragua, Love for the Peoples of the World, Twinned with all the Meritorious Struggles, the Great Fraternity of Rights, of Sublime Hopes... From this Plaza of Faith, in a World which we must Continue To Change, so that it becomes constantly Better, we proclaim, we reiterate, that Nicaragua is Free and will continue to be Free, because we are a People that loves, vibrates, sings, dreams, struggles... Permanent combatants of Love and of all the Triumphs of our Christian, Socialist Condition and Joyful Solidarity...
From this Plaza of Faith, where year after year we sanctify the Paths of Merits and Achievements of the Blessed and Supremely Capable People of our Nicaragua, who pray to Jesus Christ and speak Spanish, Miskito, Creole, Garifuna, Mayagna, Rama... in this Nicaragua that belongs to Everyone, we declare ourselves in Permanent Battle, with the Free, Supportive, Fraternal and Determined Peoples of the World, complementing each other as a Human Community, as it indeed is and should be, in Direct Combat against Poverty in all its forms, and for the Respect that we all deserve for our Ways, our Routes, our Cultures, our Ways of Being, of Living and of giving Life, to achieve our Dreams, realize our Dreams, and to serve, United for the Common Good, the urgent, increasingly urgent, transformations that we must forge and achieve, for our Dignity, Independence, Sovereignty and, of course, Well Being.
In this Celebration of Freedom, of Joy, Unity and the Strength of Peace, we greet all the Peoples of the World, we are in Brother and Sisterhood with the Peoples of the World, and we call on each other, as we do each day, to continue fighting together, to bring about change, to stop injustice, to erase and stop all the many lies, so that History and Memory are no longer falsified, nor the Identities, Heritages and Riches of our Peoples and Communities may by bought and sold...
We are 46 years after the historic, memorable and singular Triumph of Popular Heroism in Nicaragua. So long ago that July 19th and we have lived so much knowing that we have been born and continue to be born, upon the Awakening, at Daybreak, at the Dawn of New Worlds, where we can, because we indeed can, inhabit our Rights, reach our indispensable Plenitude, as our Essence, our Nature and our indisputable Condition. They are ineffable Melodies and Fine Tunings, but they are real, and blessed by the Sacred Blood of so much Struggle and by the Eternal Vigor of so many Victories.
Our Nicaragua, a Free Territory, a Glorious Land of Warriors of Peace, greets with Honorable Joy and Certain Hope, all the Peoples who now fighting, without surrendering, for the other World that is now indispensable, and the Delegations that represent them in this formidable Act of Commitment to Liberation, and to Fraternal, Solidarity and Shared Vocation, for the Common Good, which the Planet and Humanity so badly need.
Our embrace to everyone, from every Nicaraguan Home and every Family, who have fought against Hatred, who have conquered Hatred, and who have announced, pronounced and declared Love as the Emblem, Symbol and Reality of Our patriotic Nation, showing the vital, powerful and extraordinary Relationship between the Human Family.
We embrace at this moment our Hero of Peace, our American Brother, today Nicaraguan out so much Love for Humanity, Compañero Brian Wilson, who has given everything, for Peace in Nicaragua and in the World; Brian Wilson, Beloved Brother, whom we see and hear in a beautiful and eloquent Message to the People of Nicaragua and the Peoples of the World.
Address of Brian Willson (video)
Greetings to the People of Nicaragua, to the Revolutionary People of Nicaragua, a Beacon of Hope for the whole world.
I have been traveling to Nicaragua since 1986 and I loved it so much that I attempted to slow down a train full of ammunition bound for Nicaragua. But the train didn't stop. I was expecting to spend a year in jail, but instead they decided to kill me.
I consider that this Revolution is incredibly unique and a Point of Reference to follow, for everyone.
I am grateful for the honor of being invited to offer a few words of mine. You did all the work, allowing me, as an elderly man, 84 years old, to enjoy the fruits of the Revolution.
I hope other people from the US will come here to learn from the Revolution. The Gringos are unaware of these Struggles, just as I was unaware of them when I went to Vietnam.
It is amazing how you have withstood all the pressure of the United States, their interventions against your sovereignty. Congratulations on your tenacity.
Long live the Revolution!
Viva, Viva, Viva!
Remarks by Rosario
Thank you, Brian. We admire you, love you and respect you so very much.
We are going to sing now, as Sisters and Brothers in the Planetary Family and Community, the Song of Joy, the Song of Joy that is now announcing New Days to come.
The Hymn of Joy
With this Anthem of Joy, this Anthem of Fraternity, the Anthem of Peace, of our Recognition of Each Other, in Solidarity and Common Brother and Sisterhood, to the People's Republic of China, here with us; to the Russian Federation, also here with us; to the Heroic Palestinian People, here with us, and to all the Delegates representing so many Peoples... Cuba, Heroic and Victorious Cuba; Venezuela, Great Venezuela, Chávez, here with us in this Plaza... Fidel, here in this Square; Algeria, Brave and Combative; Belarus; Heroic Vietnam; Abkhazia, Türkiye, Myanmar; Burkina Faso, of our Brother Thomas Sankara, unforgettable his journey through our Country; the Democratic Republic of Korea, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, among so many.
And in a special way our Greeting, full of recognition, infinitely respectful and full of profound admiration, to those who have inspired the Revolutionary and Evolutionary Struggles of National Liberation in our Latin America, to Comandante Fidel, Fidel Castro Ruz; to Comandante Raúl, Raúl Castro Ruz; to our Eternal Comandante, Hugo Chávez Frías, among so many Great, Immense figures.
Only in Heroic Fulfillment and out of Indefatigable Militant Responsibility, Combative and Uncompromising, will we be able to thank the Creator, for our Forebears and Heroes, and for the Sandinista National Liberation Front which brings us together, encourages us and mobilizes us thanks to the Strength of our History and our Glorious Remembrance, so as to continue fighting all the Battles and achieving all the Triumphs for Peace, Dignity and Life.
Respect, Admiration and especial Affection and Recognition to Compañeras and Compañeros such as Miguel Mejía “Miguelón”, from the Dominican Republic; like Mario Firmenich, from Argentina; like Pablo Monsanto, from Guatemala; like Jaume Soler, from Catalonia; like Silvia Ayala, from Honduras; beloved Compañeras and Compañeros with whom we have shared every Battle and all the Victories...
After congratulating us all for this Unity of us All, for the Sake of All, those Victorious, Blessed and Sacrosanct Banners, Blue-and-White of this Free Patriotic Nations, Red-and-Black of the Heroic Struggles of our Brave Combatants, Generals, Comandantes, Founders and Fighters, enter this Square of Faith, on the Forever 19th, from July to July, in this 46th Year of Triumph... Nicarao, Diriangén, Adiact; Andrés, los Iindian Archers from Matagalpa, José Dolores; Benjamín Zeledón, Augusto Sandino, Miguel Ángel Ortez; and Carlos, Tomás, Camilo...
Our Eternal Tribute to the Youth of all Times, of this Blessed and Forever Free Nicaragua, to the Youth of all Times, to the Youth of the Fighting, Combative, Brave and Strong Peoples who continue to illuminate the World of Today and of Tomorrow.
We greet this July, from July to July, Always in Battle and Always in Victories. Now we will have 21 Cannonades tocelebrate the Strength of Peace, Joy, Love that is Honor, and all the Advances made against Poverty…
The 21 Cannons Sound
Remarks by Rosario
Now we listen with pride and Honor, to Compañera Anna Kuznetsova, Deputy Head of the State Duma, representing the Great People of the Russian Federation.…
Address by Anna Kuznetsova
Compañero President Daniel Ortega; Beloved Compañera Rosario Murillo, Beloved Friends all, allow me, on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation, from the Chairman of the State Duma, to congratulate all of you present here in Nicaragua, for this wonderful Celebration.
Beloved Compañero Daniel Ortega,
I congratulate you on the Forty-sixth Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution.
The contemporary history of Nicaragua, the struggle of Nicaragua for its Sovereignty and Independence, the current days and current achievements of Nicaragua, are inseparably linked to your name. And your personal contribution deserves great respect in relation to our International Cooperation.
I wish you, and all the Citizens of Nicaragua, very strong Health, Peace, Prosperity, and all the very best.
Beloved Compañera Co-President Rosario Murillo, I congratulate you on the 46th Anniversary of the Sandinista Popular Revolution. Your contribution to the Friendly Cooperation between our Countries, to the development of cultural, technical, scientific and economic relations, deserves the utmost respect.
You are developing Cooperation between Countries, taking into account Mutual Respect, Equality. I wish you very strong and good health, success in everything you set out to do and all the very best. With great respect,
Chairman of the National Duma,
Volodin.
And permit me to add a couple of personal words in communicating to you this Greeting from the Chairman of the National Duma. It is a great honor for me to share with the People of Nicaragua this Celebration of the Victory of Independence and Joy. It is not only an opportunity for me to admire the deeds of Heroes of the Past; it is also an opportunity to sense the Unity of the People; it is a chance to be able to touch the Future. Because, in front of us in this Plaza are those who will move forward into the Future with the Banner of Victory.
Under the leadership of our President Vladimir Putin, Russia fully supports those who defend their Freedom, their Values, their Children, their Future.
Here I have found some true Friends, who are true Patriots of their Country, and I am sure that this year, this year of success, will allow our Peoples to move forward developing our Values, the Values that unite our Friendly Peoples.
We have something to fight for. We have to fight for our future and for these beautiful young people, who are our children who are with us here.
Happy Celebration.
Remarks by Rosario
Thank you very much Beloved Colleague Anna. Thank you very much to your People and for that truly Memorable Historical Legacy which we treasure so much.
Thank you very much to Comnpañero Volodin, Speaker of the Duma, whom we had here last year with us, we had the honor to receive and serve him here. And thank you very much, of course, to President Vladimir Putin, with whom we share the Dream and the Reality of a Better, Just, Solidarity Inspired, Future of Freedom for the Peoples of the World. Thank you Compañera.
With great admiration, with much respect, and, of course, affection, we receive Compañero Ma Hui, Vice Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Glorious Communist Party of China, representing his Great and Victorious People and his Government of the People's Republic of China.
Address by Compañero Ma Hui
Vice Minister of the International Department
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Good evening, Your Excellency Co-President Comandante Daniel Ortega and Your Excellency Co-President Compañera Rosario Murillo; Beloved Sandinista Leaders, Compañeras and Compañeros; Beloved Delegates from the various countries, friends, a very good evening.
It is a source of joy for me to lead the Delegation of the Communist Party of China attending the Commemoration of the 46th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution, at the invitation of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua.
First of all, if I may, I would like to convey the Greetings of General Secretary and President Xi Jinping to Co-President Comandante Daniel Ortega and Co-President Compañera Rosario Murillo.
I would also like to convey the sincere greetings of all the 100 million Members of the Communist Party of China to our Sandinista Compañeras and Compañeros and to the Heroic People of Nicaragua.
Congratulations!
Next, let me read the Message of Congratulations from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the National Council of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua.
On the occasion of the 46th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution, we would like to convey to you and, through you, to all the militants of the Sandinista Liberation Front of Nicaragua, our warm congratulations.
In a world full of transformations and turbulence, the risks and challenges faced by all countries on the planet are growing. We are pleased to note that under the leadership of Co-President Comandante Daniel Ortega and Co-President Compañera Rosario Murillo, the Nicaraguan people, closely grouped around the Sandinista National Liberation Front, firmly defends their National Sovereignty and Dignity, and persists in following the path of development adapted to the realities of their own country, constantly reaching new achievements in your socio-economic development, for which we express our congratulations.
As a result of the restoration of diplomatic relations and the establishment of the Strategic Partnership between China and Nicaragua, under the strategic guidance of the leaders of both countries, bilateral ties have made a great leap forward from rapid resumption to comprehensive deepening.
Based on the Memorandum of Understanding on Exchange and Cooperation between the Communist Party of China and the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, we carry out exchanges on our experiences of governance and administration via formal institutional interaction, in order to promote the improvement of our governance capacities and jointly address risks and challenges.
Every day demonstrates deeper indications of our evident relationship as Comrades in Arms in the same trench, being two countries moving forward together in close solidarity.
The Communist Party of China attaches great importance to its traditional friendship with the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, and is willing to promote our friendly cooperation, deepen mutual learning from experiences of governance and administration and promoting a deeper, pragmatic, stable and lasting development of the Strategic Partnership between China and Nicaragua, for the better benefit of both countries and both peoples.
We take this opportunity to express our high esteem and consideration to you.
Central Committee
Communist Party of China
Words of Daniel
We are all Daniel here. Tod@s. From the youngest boy or girl, to the young men and women who are now older, and let's not talk about the People any more, we are all Daniel... We are all Daniel! That is why, it should occur to no one that at some other stage of our history some other Nicaraguan will come along who may not have the Thought, the Commitment, the Principle which we have inherited.
You compañeras and compañeros, me as well, we have inherited that Principle and we carry it in our Heart, in our Conscience, and it is the Principle that our General Sandino bequeathed to us here, in our Heart, in our Soul, when he told the Yankees: I neither surrender nor sell out, I neither sell out nor do I surrender! This is a People with a really amazing, fantastic history.
I would say that this strength and this steadfastness is rooted in the arrival of the first Imperialists, colonialists, who came from Europe to seize the Lands of our Ancestors, to threaten them with death if they did not get baptized, to threaten them with death if they did not hand over all their Gold. And they were sent by the Kings of Spain.
The Spanish people are not to blame, those responsible for the outrages Europe has committed, and the European Imperialists continue to commit, and who today are talking about investing billions and millions for war, to try and destroy Russia and try and destroy China, simply because these are Nations that saved Humanity, that saved the self-same US citizens, the self-same US, English and French companies.
Everyone who wanted to, in the Second World War had proposed to end that federation, Russia, along with all those who were gathered together, together for Well-being, together for Progress. But capitalist Europe, Imperialist Europe has always had quarrels and hatreds among themselves, wars among themselves.
Napoleon, who was supposed to be the greatest military strategist in Europe, began taking over the other European countries, and installed his brother as President of Spain, and so he went about putting in place Rulers all over Europe. And later, well, he considered that then with that dominance he would have an Army so powerful that it was going to go all over Russia, and they organized that war against Russia. And he went against Russia, Napoleon...
Napoleon thought that, with all the weaponry he had, with all the great Army he had, with all the alliances he had with other European Empires, it was going to be a short run getting to Moscow, but he did not count on the strategy of the Russian military.
So then, knowing the enormous distance from France to the main Russian cities, he thought he would be able to guarantee supplies, food, ammunition, weapons, because he thought that the Russian people were a people who had no courage, who had no valor, and who would surrender easily.
So the offensive against Russia was launched, by Napoleon; but a Russian General suggested to the General Staff that there should be no resistance, that they should be allowed to advance, advance, advance, and when they had already made their advanced and were having difficulties with supplies and also with the cold weather that begins at that time of year, Napoleon's great geniuses had not calculated for that, and when they saw that they met no resistance, that they were advancing, advancing, advancing, they felt victorious, but suddenly they did meet resistance and Winter had already begun, and they could no longer withstand Winter and had to retreat.
This was the first major defeat that Russia dealt to the European Imperialists. They were beaten, unwilling to organize another expedition.
Now, exactly this year, the 80th Anniversary of the defeat of Hitler's Nazis was commemorated, and they were defeated by the Soviet Army and by the Chinese Army, when a gigantic Revolution had then taken place in China, headed by that Great Leader who is always in our thoughts, in our Ideas, Mao Tse-Tung.
We, then, were young men who were already with the Frente Sandinista, inspired by the Russian Revolution and the Chinese Revolution. There have never been other major revolutions with such a great impact, such a global impact, as there were during those two Wars where China and Russia defeated Fascism.Back then Hitler was already preparing an atomic bomb with his scientists, they had not yet been able to build the atomic bomb, when Hitler was bombing England every day, but he wanted the atomic bomb, because with the atomic bomb he would not need to send so many flights with many small bombs, but with a couple of atomic bombs he would completely destroy England.
And then too Hitler also wanted to use the bomb to drop on Russia but, in the end, when they were just about to finish that notorious atomic bomb, came the defeat of Fascism, the defeat of Nazism.
Fascism and Nazism have their roots in Europe, Europe that prides itself on being Democratic, that prides itself on supposedly respecting Human Rights, but all Europe has done is to fight among themselves, to take over Africa, to take over Asia, and colonize African nations and costing millions of victims.
The struggle waged by France, for example, France wanting to retain its hold on Algeria after they had it dominated for a long time, spending a lot of money, and causing a great number of dead also, because in that fighting the Algerians were great Combatants.
In the end, Algeria defeated France and today is a Free People whose Representative accompanies us. He is the Minister, imagine, if only there were time for our young people to meet with the Minister of Combatants, he is a Minister of the Combatants of Algeria.
In other words, they have a lot to contribute to ensure that all these young people, these young women and men have the strength, have the energy to never ever surrender or sell out, to develop more knowledge tso as to be able to defend Nicaragua, in the face of the constant attempts that continually take place to attack Nicaragua, to invade Nicaragua.
Nicaragua and Central America gained their independence from Spain in 1821. Several factors were combined here. The Spanish had a powerful army and they had dominated the entire Region, from Mexico all the way to the South; but then Simón Bolívar was the one who knew how to look ahead, knew how to organize and knew how to give the battle, until he defeated the powerful Spanish Army.
And see how Life is, what Life is, by how people refer to Haiti now in these Times, how Haiti has been mistreated in these Times. When no country in Latin America and the Caribbean had become independent, none had been able to become independent from the Spanish, from the French, Haiti was the first to defeat the French and expel them from Haiti.
The leaders of the struggle in Haiti, with great Solidarity, gave Bolívar support, because Bolívar did not have many resources, but he arrived in Haiti and they received him very well, and gave him weapons, gave him boats.
Later, Bolívar evolved and grew in resources until he turned his Army into the most powerful Army in the Region, and that was fundamental for the Independence of Central America, the defeat of the Spanish by Bolívar. That is, Venezuela was there, Colombia was there, several Countries were united so as to form that Army of Liberation, and they managed to overcome.
Meanwhile, in Central America and Mexico there were a few rebellions, in Nicaragua, in El Salvador, in Guatemala, but the Spanish had more dominion over these Countries, since they were much smaller nations. But when the Spanish Empire was defeated in South America, headed in that Battle by Bolívar, then the pro-independence positions in Central America, in Mexico, gained strength and so Central America became independent in the year 1821.
But at the time of Independence there were still traitors, quislings, who did not want to accept Independence; or else they said: OK, then, we have become independent, but let's go and join the Iturbide Empire, which was an Empire the Spanish had left in Mexico to try and look for ways of keeping some control over Central America.
I mention all this because what should never be forgotten in our personal lives, in our family life, our life as a People, is our History, the Past should never be forgotten. Because, by looking to the Past, we learn to defend ourselves, because we can discover the great mistakes, the great betrayals that were committed in those periods and which allowed, first, with the arrival of the Spanish, who, as I said, threatened, in fact, that if people refused to take Communion, then they had the Mandate of their Saints and their Monarchs, to kill those Indigenous Brothers and Sisters, Human Beings.
All of us have Indigenous Blood, yes, we all do some maybe more, some less, and we have to be proud of having that Indigenous Blood and likewise be proud of our Miskito Communities, the Ramas, the Garifuna, all the Communities there on the Coast, in the Northern Region and the Southern Region of the Caribbean.
Of course, the Europeans have been racist and have transmitted that racism to their peoples. That's why the Europeans calmly began to turn the Brothers and Sisters of Africa into animals; they captured Families, Parents, everyone, took them to markets offering them for sale to the Europeans to buy, turning them into slaves.
And a slave is not someone whom as they used to say before, was a servant or an employee... No! A slave had no right to Life when he was sold to a European Family; when they were sold to North American Families to use as slaves, they had every right to kill them if they felt they were no longer of use to them.
These are crimes that we cannot forget, that we must not forget, especially when these crimes are being repeated in these times when there is so much talk about Human Rights, when there is so much talk about Democracy.
These crimes they are committing against the Palestinian People, murdering thousands of Children, thousands of Mothers, entire Families; totally destroying the places they inhabited; destroying hospitals destroying them with patients inside, with doctors inside.
That's why, Brothers and Sisters, we have to strengthen our network of communication, and here is the Compañera President of TELESUR, Patricia Villegas, and in TELESUR we have a starting point so as to be able to raise consciousness of these crimes that are being committed, and the fact that they provoke protests, as protests are indeed being made, even in the United States itself, against the Jewish Government.
And that is no more nor less than a plan, by the Jewish government, concocted with the Yankee government and with the complicity also of the European governments, namely, to disappear the Palestinian State, is to disappear it, as they have said it very clearly, they have said it openly. They are self-confessed criminals! There they are, armed, given weapons by the Europeans, by the United States, because they want to take over the whole Region, and they are doing it as calm as you like.
They are murdering every day! Even media in the United States or in Europe are now beginning to report the crimes. And what does the United Nations do? The United Nations is nothing but an instrument of the imperialist countries, of those Countries which want to dominate the world, even if the World itself disappears, with the risk of Humanity disappearing, because they have no qualms about bombing everywhere.
We have already seen how they launched the armed provocation, via a plan put together by the United States and the Zionists to bomb Iran, on the pretext that what the Iranians were working on were atomic weapons. Iran is a huge nation, it used to be the Persian Empire, it has a population of 90 million inhabitants, it has great wealth, undertakes a great deal of work, with a lot of resources.
And the Iranians, complying with the United Nations standards, had presented a plan so as to work the uranium and use it in peaceful activities. Because it turns out that they have done so for some time and that's why they have many plants generating nuclear energy with uranium, which are plants to produce energy, to produce electricity and it turns out to be cheaper and safer than the plants that are installed via traditional networks.
Of course, who has had the capacity to build these plants? The richest countries; but when a Country appears, which defends its Sovereignty and its History, a Country that does not surrender, and goes to the United Nations, presenting their Plan, which is a Plan to develop facilities, because they want to have nuclear energy generating plants, not nuclear bombs, not nuclear missiles.
So, there is an Agency called the IAEA at the United Nations, which is in charge of approving that, in charge of monitoring such programs so they comply with what has been certified there. And the arrangement was that our Persian Brothers and sisters were to start to work and every 3 months, 4 months, the people from the IAEA would arrive to see if they were in compliance.
That is to say, they had them under surveillance, they were certifying them, and the IAEA certified that everything was going well, and that there were no indications that they were arming nuclear bombs, or nuclear missiles; but, for the rulers of Israel, for the military power of Israel, and in particular for the United States and the Europeans, that could not be. And that is why they organized the attack, every day bombing, bombing.
The last straw was that then the Yankees arrived with their big bombs, dropping their big bombs in those places where they said nuclear bombs were being manufactured, and in sum that they had bombed, causing damage and destruction, but there was no sign of radiation. Because if there had been radiation there, with that bombardment, radiation would have begun to spread throughout the region and to other regions, and such radiation kills, producing diseases, nuclear radiation is terrible.
And what has the United Nations done? What is the United Nations doing to stop the destruction of the Palestinian People? What is it doing? What does the United Nations do when the US rulers launch fierce persecution against Latin American immigrants? And they not only persecute them to expel them, but they persecute and imprison them.
And precisely today, July 19th, how glad we are that, today, President Nicolás Maduro, with intelligence, with firmness, without despairing, managed to get 254 Venezuelan Brothers and Sisters who had been sent into detention by the US rulers, to return home, to Venezuela, given the war they are now waging against immigrants.
That is to say, the US government has sworn it is not going to leave any migrants, and they are going to run out of workers there, because migrants are the ones who do all the hardest work in the US, and US companies are complaining against the government, because they are starting to lose money.
We give a fraternal embrace to the 254 Venezuelan Brothers and Sisters who are now with their Families, and we offer all our affection and all our love to all those children who have managed to be recovered, who had been separated from their Mothers in the United States, where the children are caged, and their mothers are put in prison, but now the children are with their mothers in Venezuela. Look at such crimes, and what does the United Nations say? What does the United Nations do?
The United Nations was created after the Second World War, as if it was going to be a serious Body which was going to try and give security to all Peoples, to all Nations, to see that all the Rules were met. But every day that passes we are faced with so many criminal acts and many more that we could mention, criminal acts committed by European governments, by the US government, crimes which are there in plain sight.
On the other hand, the NATO countries are spending billions to go to war against Russia, and in that way they give military support to the Fascists of Ukraine.
Look at how the world is doing, the world is experiencing moments as critical as those that have been experienced in previous wars, even, since what is happening is that NATO is preparing for war. For what? To attack Russia. Why? Because the NATO countries defend the Fascists who imposed themselves via a coup in Ukraine.
That's why we can say, how right Father Miguel d’Escoto was when he was President over the United Nations, and that he stated: The United Nations is no longer good for anything. It needs to be refounded! And to refound it means that this United Nations should disappear.
But the powerful are united there, those who have nuclear power are united there, they unite together, and they do not want others to have nuclear power. Ideally, and I am sure that Countries that have nuclear weapons would accept this, they would accept it if all atomic weapons would disappear, be removed, I am sure.
I was telling you, really, no one gives way here! Right? No one gives way here! Or am I already wearing you all out? We are going to conclude now, with some data.
You can see, Nicaragua and Central America became independent from Spain in 1821, but, of course, more than 200 years of Spanish domination had already passed and some of the languages of our Original Peoples in whom we have our roots managed to survive, and with the Revolution we have given them more encouragement, more reinforcement, so that classes are given in Spanish and in the languages of the Miskito Community, Rama Key, and Higher Education Projects are also developed for them... That is, in communities that had been totally forgotten.
Then also we have something that is really extraordinary, we have built in record time a highway which for the first time, via a concrete road, links the Pacific Region with the Caribbean Region. That is a Miracle and that has only been possible because of the cooperation of Fraternal Nations, Fraternal Peoples, and thanks to the working capacity of the Institutions that are building these Roads, that are building Hospitals, that are building Schools, that are multiplying Housing everywhere. You can see this every day, every day you can see it.
As I was telling you, in 1821 came Independence, in 1821 we became independent and in 1855, imagine, the Yankees fell on us, William Walker invaded us, coming to take over the San Juan River and work with US companies on passenger traffic from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States.
Because that was a period when there was a Gold Rush and everyone who was on the East Coast, where there was no Gold, when the news came to them that, on the West Coast, San Francisco, the area of Los Angeles, that there were large quantities of Gold there, that people were extracting Gold everywhere there; then thousands of Americans began to embark on that journey.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping entrepreneur, came up with the idea of putting into operation, and he did put it into operation, for passengers to leave from New York, and they arrived from New York to the coast of Nicaragua; since they were large ships that brought a lot of passengers, they had smaller ships there waiting and then they sailed across with those ships so as to arrive in the area of San Juan del Sur, where the strip of land is small.
There, the stagecoaches of the shipping company were waiting for them, they would get on, go the short distance in the stagecoaches, to where other big ships were waiting to take them to the West Coast where the Gold was. That became known as the Transit Route.
And take note that this caused conflicts to start in the United States among the shipping companies and they hired a group of Officers, Soldiers, Yankees, mercenaries, to support one of those companies. And the mercenaries came in the year 1855 and started fighting. And who was paying the mercenaries? The other shipping company. And the other company whom did they work with here in Nicaragua? There were two governments: one in León and one in Granada.
So, one of the governments had to be eliminated, and in the end, the head of the expedition, William Walker, was elected President of Nicaragua. How many people will know in the world that Nicaragua had a Yankee President recognized by the State Department? And that this Yankee President appointed a Priest as his Ambassador, and that the Priest went to present his Credentials to Washington, and they were received there.
But if you take a good look, some Nicaraguans sold out, but not all of them did, there were some who, faced with that outrage, what they did was arm themselves with rifles albeit of less capacity than those brought by the Yankees, which were of higher quality. These Nicaraguans got together with the Indian archers from Matagalpa, and they were the Nicaraguans, who neither surrendered nor sold out, and they put up a fight defeating the invading Yankee. I would say that this is the first defeat the invading Yankees had here in this entire Region.
But they continued to be obsessed with invading Nicaragua once, twice, overthrowing governments. And thus we have all our Heroes, in the Battle of San Jacinto the Hero who stands out most is Andrés Castro, when he lifted the stone and cast it at the Yankee, and knocked him down. That is to say, he was not afraid of the Yankee coming at him with a rifle, but he came, grabbed the stone, since he did not have a rifle, and cast the stone and knocked the Yankee down. And that Battle was decisive, led by General José Dolores Estrada.
Then came the other invasions, invasions by the English, the English wanted to take over Nicaragua too, as did the Germans, and they formed expeditions with famous Admirals, but they defeated them, they always defeated them.
The Nicaraguans who had already forged themselves through the mixture of indigenous and Spanish blood was now defending Nicaragua. Because, what would have happened in Nicaragua, imagine, if the English came and swept out the Spaniards, and finished sweeping out the Nicaraguans too?
So, the Nicaraguans are then beginning to defend their indigenous-Spanish identity, that's why Darío knows so well how to describe that mixture, and the achievements, the Human Strength of those Families, those Nicaraguans who gave Battle at San Jacinto and who were reinforced by the Indian archers, who had no Spanish blood, but 100% indigenous blood, but as Good Patriots, Brave Heroes, they gave battle there to defeat the invading Yankee. I must now conclude with these data that are incredible, incredible!
When the Yankees invaded Nicaragua in 1855, and were defeated by the Nicaraguans who would neither surrender, nor sell out, by José Dolores Estrada, Andrés Castro and the Indian archers, in that year Nicaragua had a population of 214,000 inhabitants, you see, we were a tiny people, invaded by a Country, the United States of North America, which, in that year, 1855, already had a population of 27 million inhabitants. 27 million against 200,000 Nicaraguans, and it wasn't 200,000, it was fewer those who fought, because others betrayed us.
Then in the year 1912, which is when the Yankees carried out their coup against Zelaya, Nicaragua had a population of 554,000 inhabitants, and the United States had a population of 95.3 million inhabitants. I mean, it's amazing how a country with such a population, the United States was already then a Power.
Then, in 1926, when the Yankees invaded Nicaragua, at that time Nicaragua had a population of 687,000 inhabitants, the United States then had a population of 117 million inhabitants; that is to say, we did not reach even a million people and they already had 117 million, well armed, the US was a great Power.
That's when the battle with Sandino was being fought, and they couldn't defeat Sandino, even though they brought aviation, they brought troops, they continuously brought more troops; it was 7 or 8 eight years of war, but they couldn't prevails and had to withdraw, they were defeated in Nicaragua.
Then in 1980 there was the war, after the Triumph in 1979, but the Yankees continued the war, a war that was contested, when even the President of the United States said that he too was a Contra, and he sought funds so as to give weapons, training and everything to the Counterrevolution, who were sent to train there to the United States and also to train some military bases they had installed in Honduras. He gave tremendous armament... Just imagine!
In the year 1980, the war began and lasted 10 years, many of you participated as "Cub troops”, yes, I'm sure some of you were "Cubs”, and the “Cubs" were those young men who neither sold out nor surrendered and who knew how to defend the Nation
10 years of war, and Reagan even resorted to working with drug traffickers so as to give the Contras weapons, it was a scandal back in the United States, but nothing happened as a result. But they couldn't prevail, yes, they couldn't defeat the Sandinista Army, they couldn't defeat the “cubs” and it was another defeat for Imperialism, and another victory for the Nicaraguan people.
So, beloved young men and women, our beloved Young People, we have Peace, but that does not mean that the enemy is resting, the enemy is always plotting, he is always trying to provoke bloodshed, trying to provoke pain, grief, suffering, in Nicaragua’s Families, because some people think they can overthrow the Revolution because they have the support of the Imperialists of the Earth.
That's why we have to always keep up with all the tasks that we have to fulfill, via study, preparation, work in different activities, without neglecting anything, there in the place where we are working, there in the neighborhood where we are at work, without neglecting Revolutionary Vigilance, such that there is no space left for terrorists, conspirators, sellouts, because they will know that as soon as they are discovered, they will be captured and prosecuted.
We appreciate so much the participation of the Delegations that have come from Fraternal Peoples, from Fraternal Countries, where too these Fraternal Peoples are fighting for Peace, with us here China is the greatest Power and fighting for Peace; the Russian Federation is another great Power, but it has no other option but to continue giving battle to achieve Peace, yes, but not at the cost of ceding even an inch of land to the Nazi-Fascists.
And the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, have been very clear, they want Peace for the World, they promote Peace for the World, they promote Solidarity for the World, they promote cooperation for the world’s Peoples; that is to say, they are noble Peoples and they are not Powerful Nations wanting to be occupying Powers seeking only how to oppress, crush and enslave.
Slavery has now been buried forever, and even with the difficult world situation, with Powers such as the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation, who make their way in search of Peace, promoting Peace, we are sure that they are Powers whom, those who are sowing terrorism around the world, have to respect.
In the end, Peace will have to come, Peace will have to come! and all these complex, difficult, terrible situations that are being experienced, this United Nations will have to come to an end and another United Nations body will have to be created, a new United Nations, capable of being an instruments that does give security to all Nations, able to be an Instrument able to go where others are killing People, and stop those crimes.
We, of course will continue to fight here for Latin American and Caribbean Unity, we have to continue fighting for Latin American and Caribbean Unity; continue fighting to strengthen ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America, and working together as close as we can, despite whatever differences we may have.
As small countries we are especially obliged to get closer, to improve the living conditions of our Peoples; otherwise, simply, if there is no rapprochement, if there is no dialogue, if there is no respect for the Agreements we reach, then simply some lose out more than others; we all lose, but some lose more than others. And we are here not for anyone to lose, but because all the Central American, Latin American and Caribbean Countries have managed to unite in the struggle for Peace, for Unity for the Well-being of our Peoples, ending Poverty.
Remarks by Rosario, Co-President of Nicaragua, after Central Event
in Commemoration of the 46th Anniversary of the Sandinista Popular Revolution
July 19th 2025
Always the 19th... And Always Further! We leave the Plaza now, and tomorrow when we wake up, we keep fighting, we keep fighting, and we keep advancing against Poverty!
Our People, who inspire us, who engage us... All the Triumphs are from the People! Every Anniversary, each Anniversary is a date of Remembrance, a date to bear in mind, to value, appreciate and know that it is the Heroism of the Nicaraguan People that allows us to go one, from July to July, conquering the Future that we all deserve.
I have felt in these days of Celebration, great Pride in our People, in our Youth and also in those of Eternal Youth... Pride in all that we have managed to grow, Pride in all that we are, Pride in all that we advance every day, and pride, above all, in our unyielding Conviction. We are a People of Principles, of Values, of Convictions, and that distinguishes us, and inspires the World: The Courage, the Heroism, the Conviction and the Principles of our People.
We feel blessed to be part of this People of ours, and I believe that our main Strength is our Faith, our Values. We know what we are, we know what we can do and we know that we are Victorious, Conquerors of any and every form of Death, because we have in our Soul the Christian Conviction and the Spirit of the Socialism, of Brother and Sisterhood and Solidarity.
A Warm Embrace to everyone, let us all feel Blessed, Prospering with more and more Victorious. A warm embrace, Compañeras and Compañeros.