ALWAYS FURTHER ON
OUR VICTORY IS PEACE
Dr. Gustavo Porras in the opening of the Legislative Year
19/People President
January 10th 2026
These have been 19 years, Compañeros and Compañeras, 19 years of the People as President, 19 years after having received a disastrous neoliberal legacy, which we can never forget, if only to remind us of what we should never return to.
19 years ago we all remember how our children, the children of our People, of this People who took over the Presidency, were either withdrawn from schools if they could not pay or were not given their grades. We all remember how our people arrived at dilapidated hospitals and left with a bunch of prescriptions in their hands without having their problems resolved, also with the feeling of unease and insecurity that every córdoba spent on medicine meant deciding not to spend it on food for the day; the purchase of food competed with the purchase of medicine.
Those 19 years we have lived so as never to return to the terrible 12 hour power cuts of 19 years ago and we should remember the wrecked vehicles running through our capital city’s damaged streets, which was called collective urban transport, hopefully it will remain just a terrible memory that will never return, one we are sure will not return.
What is the magic of the Revolution? What is the magic of the Sandinista Front? The magic of Nicaraguans? What is the magic of Comandante Daniel and Compañera Rosario, of all the compañeros who have worked and worked non-stop all this time? The magic has been to subordinate everything to the interests of the People President, that's the magic.
The magic is to sense the needs of the People President, to work for the People, that is the magic, because the wonderful statistics that our brother Ovidio Reyes has laid out for us, and who thank God has an enormous capacity for following up with his knowledge of the economy, leading to actions of important reconstruction; these are not just statistics, as he clearly said, we not only cite them but we also see them and feel them.
We not only say there is economic growth, that there is monetary stability, that there is a fiscal surplus or that exports have been increasing, commercial activity has increased, that unemployment has fallen and employment has increased... we see it and feel it; we see it on our highways, in hospitals, in schools, in stadiums, in sports activities, in the country’s youth, we see it everywhere, we see it in access to the internet, in electricity coverage; the magic is not only saying all of this, but in fact making it happen, every point of today’s monetary stability, every point of inflationary stability, every point of economic growth which under past neoliberal models meant squeezing the People. Today it means investing in our People, today it means Well-being for our People, that's the massive difference.
That's why it's different to saying, as we have heard so many times, talk about monetary stability, about reducing the fiscal deficit, about looking for a surplus. But remember that talk meant "tighten your belt”, that meant squeezing the People, now what we hear means a Future, it means Well-being for the People, it means Health, Education and Security.
However sisters and brothers, none of that is possible without Peace, Peace is necessary for all that economic development and all those social impacts we are achieving, this is an absolutely indivisible relationship... more economic growth, more well-being for the People, makes it possible for us to ensure Peace and then the more Peace there is, the greater the possibilities of economic growth and well-being for our People; so in all of this we have to be aware that we need security, we need to be alert, we need to be careful, we need to safely preserve Peace, and protect Peace.
This is a permanent lesson that Comandante Daniel and Compañera Rosario give us, practically every day, to preserve Peace, protect Peace, to be alert, how many times has Comandante Daniel not told us to keep one eye always open?
We have to work on these four points: Peace, to guarantee Peace we need Security, to guarantee Security we need organization and to be alert and all this gives us as a good outcome: economic growth and a better future for Nicaraguan families; and this in turn entails more Security, more Organization and more Peace; and none of this is possible without the Sandinista Revolution, under the guidance of Comandante Daniel and Compañera Rosario and with the Unity of Nicaragua’s People, the indestructible Unity of the People.
We see that unity reflected here, unity among the different political parties on our Executive Board, the unity of all our People to move forward and fulfill the central directive our leaders have given us and which the Revolution gives us, to defeat poverty, defeating poverty is the goal.
So brothers and sisters, we declare open the XLII Legislature of the National Assembly
Long live Daniel!
Long live Rosario!
Long live the Sandinista Front!