Comandante Daniel and Compañera Rosario, Co-Presidents of Nicaragua,
in the National Event of Commitment to Peace
April 20th 2026
Address by Rosario
Beloved Families of this Blessed, Prodigious, Miraculous Nicaragua, blessed by the Grace of God, Forever Dignified, Sovereign and Free... Our Nicaragua where today we celebrate and give thanks to the Father committing ourselves, each and every one, to Peace, as our Triumph, our Victory.
Love, Faith, Hope, Brother and Sisterhood, Solidarity, that is Nicaragua. All of us Together, Always Further On!
April means continuing to Overcome in Harmony, in Community, in Family, in Fraternity.
Nicaragua, Nicaragua Triumphs in Peace...! Nicaragua Triumphs in Unity!
This afternoon, in this Square where we also honor all the Sacred Blood offered up for this Blessed Patriotic Nation, by our Heroes, our National Heroes, our Martyrs, we also honor ourselves here. And here, before this Youth who know about Struggles and Honor, the Commitment of everyone is to Go Forward, To Keep Going Onward, striving to overcome Poverty, striving to maintain Harmony, striving to advance, always in Family Values, in Community.
We want to greet the Presidium, the Youth of Nicaragua, the Sandinista Youth, the Revolutionary, Evolutionary Youth, the Youth that makes its way in Peace, with Rights and Well-Being for Everyone.
We salute too, in this Presidium, well, our Comandante Daniel; our President of the National Assembly, Dr. Gustavo Porras; the Vice President, Compañera Arling Alonso; Army General Julio César Avilés Castillo, Head of the Army and of the Military Forces of our Blessed Nicaragua; Colonel General Bayardo Rodríguez, Chief of the General Staff; Colonel General Marvin Elías Corrales, Inspector General of our Army, both Colonel General Bayardo and Compañera Colonel General Marvin Elías Corrales; First Commissioner Francisco Díaz, Head of the Police Forces, and Co-Chief Commissioner General Victoriano Ruiz.
Minister of the Interior, Compañera María Amelia Coronel; Commissioner General Luis Cañas, Vice Minister; Compañera President and National Hero, Compañera President of the Supreme Electoral Council, our sister Brenda Rocha; and the Vice President Compañero Comandante Lumberto Campbell.
Attorney General of Justice, or Attorney General of the Republic, Dr. Wendy Morales; Minister for Youth, Compañera Darling Hernández, and Compañero National Coordinator of the Sandinista July 19th Youth, Oscar Pérez.
And we want to highlight the presence in this Square where we are honoring our Commitment to Peace, and the Future, of Compañera Doris Ávila Talavera, daughter of our beloved Yiye Ávila and his wife Carmen “Yiya”; of Doris's husband, Compañera José Agripino Rodríguez; of Yiye's grandson, son of Nohemí, daughter of Yiye and Carmen. And our beloved brother who accompanies us always, at all times, Father Antonio Castro, parish priest of the church in Larreynaga.
We have invited them all to join us here to offer a Prayer for Peace, for the Future, for Youth, for the Families of this Blessed Nicaragua, Blessed, Forever Dignified, Sovereign, Joyful and Free!
Prayer for Peace
Pastor Doris Ávila Talavera
God bless everyone here. We thank God for this opportunity, this privilege of being here to pray. I am accompanied by my husband José and my nephew Miguel, who are also here and we have enjoyed the Love they have for my father and which extends to us. We are very happy to be here, but let's do what we came for and pray.
Dear God, Heavenly Father, at this moment we call out to You for Nicaragua; we thank You for the Blessing and Honor of being here to pray with this People, Lord, a People that loves You, where your Freedom prevails, where You can be adored and praised, and my God, thank You for that Privilege, Lord.
We thank You for your Kindness, we thank You, my God, for this opportunity to be here, and at this moment, Beloved Lord, I pray first for their Leaders. I ask that You continue to keep them safe, that You continue to strengthen them; that You empower and give them Wisdom, so they can continue to impart and bless this People, giving the Freedoms that your Spirit puts in them, with your Wisdom.
Strengthen their bodies, O Beloved God, and thank You for their Lives, for the Love they have for my Family. We thank You, Lord, for the immense love they have for our Family.
We ask You, O Lord, that You cover this Nation with Your Grace, that You cover this Nation, Beloved God, preventing every evil work, every work of the enemy that wants to perturb, that wants to destroy. Because your Peace, your Peace, Lord, may it permeate throughout this Nation.
We are grateful, Lord, for them to serve You, for them to gaze at Your Face, they already have Peace, but we want that Peace to be maintained. We want, oh My Lord God, that Peace to remain.
So, we thank my God that they continue to pray, looking to You, so that this Peace may always be maintained. Because, even if the enemy comes like a river, the Spirit of Jehovah will raise Banners, and we declare Jesus Christ the Lord of Nicaragua, we declare this Nation Holy and that Jesus Christ is the Lord of Nicaragua, Jesus Christ is indeed the Lord of Nicaragua. And we give you all the Glory, all the Honor, for You Lord; through Jesus, Amen.
Address by Father Antonio Castro
Good evening, everyone. This morning the Archbishop called me, delegating me to offer a Prayer here, a Message for Peace.
Our National Assembly has decreed a National Day of Peace, while everyone knows that Peace is not just for one day; Peace, Vatican II tells us, is a continuous daily task. We honor peace when we build it every day.
Jesus tells us: Blessed are those who work for peace. They are God's children, these are God's children. And He, before departing to the Presence of the Father, at the Ascension, said to the Disciples: My Peace I leave with you, my Peace I give to you; I do not give you the Peace that the world gives you. It is very different that Peace that the world wants to give. Those who dominate the Peoples offer a Peace that instills fear and terror, which leads to violence, destruction and death. That is not the Peace the Lord gives us.
Vatican II tells us that Peace is not the absence of war, Peace is the fruit of Justice, it is the fruit of Development, it is the fruit of Progress, it is the fruit of Law, it is the fruit of Respect for the Dignity and Sovereignty of each one of the world’s Peoples.
That is why, Brothers and Sisters, each one of us is, and is called to be, a builder of Peace. There is Peace when there is Justice, there is Peace when there is Health, there is Peace when there is Education for Everyone, there is Peace when there is Housing, there is Peace when there is access to all the elements of production, there is Peace when there is Harmony, when there is Reflection.
And there is Peace when we create all these resources with Conscience, with Love for each of the Projects we promote. And that means taking care of them, protecting them, defending them, loving them, not only the Projects, but also loving, as Pope Francis said, Creation, our Common Home. If we take care of our Natural Resources we are building Peace, we are building Life, we are building Love.
Let us thank God that we are all Builders of Peace, from the highest authority to the smallest of our Citizens; Builders of Life, Builders of Peace, Builders of Love.
I ask God to bless us, to give us the Wisdom to discover His presence through the construction of Peace. May God Bless us!
Address by Rosario
NICARAGUA, OUR NICARAGUA :
HOW WE LOVE YOU...!
Those who could not prevail,
through Fear,
through Envy,
through Greed,
exploiting the Strength of everyone’s Success
those who believed themselves better than everyone
who believed, above all
in those who are not us at all,
but others, ones from far away,
the ones who ignore everyone else,
they, the ones who desecrated that Sacred Love,
today they long for what they put at risk and lost
when they wanted, they yearned, to set back
the calendar, the clocks,
the needles, the bells,
the Suns, the Days, the Psalms, the Moons,
They who pierced their own land,
who blasphemed their own times,
today they long to return to this Blessed Nicaragua
with all its wonders
But They Cannot, Nor Will They Be Able To...!
They,
those who sold Holy Blood, for nothing,
believing that they would be paid with mirrors and lights
that is, the same thirty coins,
but,
They lost...
and they can no longer win...!
They have nothing left,
Nothing… less than Nothing!
There are blows, in Life,
so thunderous,
Blows, dealt by Hatred of God
Because we cannot see
His Love, His Justice, His Truth,
His Mercy...!
What is past does not return,
We walk head high to the Future
Never on our knees,
and the present is where we arrive
Making our way,
with honor,
with Courage,
with Great Love, Dignified,
with History and Memory,
with Courage,
with Pride,
with Patriotic Nation...!
The Time and the Spirit
They Are Everything...! While Nothing, is Nothing
And We Know That...!
Nicaragua belongs to everyone
we who live the Glory
to be truly Nicaraguan
to be truly Christian
because we don't know how to surrender,
we don't know how to give up,
we don't know how to sell out,
we don't know how to stop being Soul,
we who Together, we who Go Onward Together,
we fight to overcome,
To overcome through Love,
To continue Overcoming
United All,
toward New Horizons
Here the regret of betrayal
has been left for a few precarious pages
of Human Wretchedness
Here today all of us are Conviction,
more and more Fervor for Revolution, for Evolution
Strengths, Life, Truths,
to Make Our Way
to Create
To Continue Loving...!
Life is for the Future
for those who persist,
and who sing, as they do sing,
for those who persevere,
And They plant and sow,
We sow, such that
life is True
for those who are fearless,
and live in the heat of all the battles,
on the wings
of all the victories...!
May the Lord Our God continue
Making Miracles through
The Union that is our Strength,
The Strength that is Sublime Spirit..!
Nicaragua, Nicaragua
how we love you!
Nicaragua, Supreme Dignity!
We Live in Times of Sovereignty, Freedom
Brother and Sisterhood and Humanity
Times of God, Times of Peace
We do not doubt it...!
Today we are all Nicaragua,
that Blessed Strength
that carries us Onward!
Address by Daniel
Good evening, Nicaraguan Brothers and Sisters, Families in the Countryside, in the Cities, Families on the banks of the River Coco River, Families who live on the banks of the River San Juan, all the Families who live in every beautiful corner of Nicaragua.
Today we are honored with the visit, the Words and Messages of Pastor Doris Ávila Talavera, daughter of our Beloved Yiye Ávila.
We also greet Yiye's wife, Pastor Carmen, who is at home, aged 93 years. Yiye said goodbye to her before he passed, but he remains always, of course, in the heart of his mother, and of Doris.
We greet José Agripino Rodríguez, who is the partner and husband of Doris; and also to Yiye's grandson. Let us see him stand. He is a little boy. His name is Miguel José Sánchez Ávila.
And when I was greeting him and they handed me this Holy Bible, for which I thank them very much, Miguel José Sánchez told me, that once in the house where they live, Yiye called to him saying, “I put my hand on this photo,” in which we were. “We have to pray for them, we have to pray for their People." That was and that is Yiye, for Yiye has not died, he is here among us.
And we are joined by the historic parish priest of the Church in Larreynaga, Father Antonio Castro, all of us know Father Antonio Castro.
And this Event on the Day of Peace here in Nicaragua reminds me of those events for July 19th when Cardinal Miguel was always there, who was a Promoter of Reconciliation, Cardinal Miguel, and also always present in those years when we were still at war, still in struggle, we were accompanied by Pastors from the United States of America, Pastors of the Churches of different Evangelical Denominations from the United States. And just as Cardinal Miguel made his Message of Peace, so then it causes great surprise that a US Pastor also offered a Message of Peace.
However, we are sure that there is no democracy in the United States of America, if you end up launching bombs that is decided by the person who has become expert in launching bombs. Of course, that person himself is not going to launch the bombs, he orders his soldiers to risk their lives.
In the same way he continuously launches sanctions against the world’s Peoples. How many sanctions have been launched against Nicaragua! They can't even find anyone else to punish anymore after so many people they have sanctioned here in Nicaragua.
He should be clear, that while it is true he is at the head of a Power that has nuclear weapons, one that launches attacks to kidnap Presidents, as he did in Venezuela; one that threatens Cuba, Cuba has been blockaded for more than 60 years, one that threatens to launch a Military Operation, but he forgets that Cuba has managed to survive that blockade for more than 60 years.
And it has also become clear that although the United Nations has voted, every year it votes to see who is in favor of the blockade and who is against, with the immense majority of countries in the world voting against the blockade. But, since the one who is in command there in the United States cares little about what the international organizations say, cares little even about the self-same US laws, cares little about the role that Congress, the Senate, the different Authorities from whom by law he should have to request authorization to launch the bombings he has launched against the Iranian People and against other Peoples of the Region, he is quite calm there in the White House.
US soldiers have died, and naturally that is a wound for the US people, because the wars imposed in the way the current President of the United States imposes them, are typical of someone who has lost their mind and believes he can do anything, commit any barbarity.
The last thing, the most recent thing he put on the TikTok, was when he posted an image where he is dressed as Christ, and he is healing. But how many have you cured? The US people and the Peoples of the world are going to call you to account to find out how many you have killed, because you have not saved anyone.
Of course, he feels this country is such a great Power that it can destroy any country and he threatens to destroy Cuba, and suddenly he may also threaten us Nicaraguans. But the President of the United States should not forget how here in Nicaragua the battle was fought throughout this Region, against the Yankee filibusters led by William Walker who were defeated. They were defeated and then had to return home. We’re talking about the years 1854, 1856.
And then, as the song “Soberanía” says, Sandino defended the Blue and White Flag, which doesn’t have a single star. And Sandino fought that battle with an Army that had great Soul, great Heart, who were barefoot peasants, while others had boots and shoes.
The armament they had was light armament, and still with all those Yankee troops that arrived in Nicaragua over 8 years, Yankee troops landing here in Nicaragua, and the Army in Defense of National Sovereignty confronted those Yankee troops. A moment even came when they started bringing their aviation, airplanes to drop bombs, thinking in that way they were going to make Sandino surrender. But Sandino did not give up.
Then, when they saw this was a battle they had lost, that they suffered casualties, that their airplanes had to come and remove their wounded, wounded American soldiers, simply for an adventure; in the end, they decided it made no sense to continue in that battle, because after eight years they failed to defeat Sandino, and nothing remained for them but to withdraw defeated from Nicaragua.
These are times in which there is no recourse except to fight very hard for Peace, with a lot of Strength of Spirit, with a lot of Strength in the Soul, to fight for Peace, to fight for Reconciliation, to fight for understanding among the Brothers and Sisters of Nicaragua, and to fight for understanding among the Peoples of the World.
To strive so that the wars disappear which today have all countries in crisis, including the United States of America; with all that they spend on those wars, what they spend on armaments, and what they spend on prestige, prestige that a world Power should take care of.
In Iran, 170 Children were killed in the first wave of bombing they launched against Iran, 170 Children! I mean, murdering children, murdering women… this is a thing of horror!
But I am sure that the Force of the Love that God gives to all Peoples, that Force is rising up, protesting against those wars, and demanding an end to those wars.
And also that they suspend the sanctions that they have imposed against many countries: Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and I’d better stop counting because the list is long. Sanctions that simply threaten the lives of citizens, threaten the Sovereignty of Peoples, threaten International Law.
Pay close attention, take a good look, here they are anxious to see who they can sanction next, they are pushing to do so now, yes! They have sanctioned so many Nicaraguans that now they are looking for who else to sanction, but with what Authority, with what Authority?
We cannot forget, we must not forget that when they launched their war against Nicaragua, one of the last wars now against Nicaragua, when they were mining the ports, destroying bridges, murdering teachers, destroying schools in the countryside; that is, terrorism! The United States wages war with terrorism.
And we documented that very well with Father Miguel dEscoto, who was Foreign Minister, we documented it well, and we went there to the United Nations Court, which is in The Hague. That's where we went, because we were saying: Really, at the point of gunfire this war is never going to end.
We went to international organizations and we went to The Hague, and the International Court of Justice issued a Sentence and that Sentence is still alive, that Sentence is still alive, condemning the United States of America for its acts of terrorism in Nicaragua. The Sentence condemns the US for the deaths, condemns the US for the explosions in the ports, and condemns the US to compensate Nicaragua.
Therefore, his advisers should remind the President of the United States that he owes a debt to Nicaragua. He has no business applying sanctions against Nicaragua; he and the United States government has a debt with Nicaragua, and that debt is still pending.
Even, in the moment the debt was made known, it ordered, and still orders the United States government to indemnify Nicaragua with several billions in compensation. Pay up, pay up, pay up! And stop bullying and punishing the World’s Peoples!
The Struggle for Peace in these times has become ever more urgent, and we have to start by uniting ourselves as Peoples, all developing countries, seeking in that way to create a front in favor of Peace at the global level, one that ends once and for all the terrorist policies applied around the World by the US rulers.
And there is the President of the United States, who says that he is a man of Peace, he even fought to get the Nobel Peace Prize. They did not give it to him, indeed, they did not give it to him, the Nobel Peace Prize, and we can say that already showed a problem of mental derangement.
As people here say, he is not in his five senses, and the President of a Power like the US, who is not in his five senses, is going to destroy his People, and he is destroying his People, he is destroying Peace and Stability in the World.
Let him put his words in favor of Peace to the test, let him put an end now to the war against the People of Iran; let him put an end now to the blockade against Cuba; let him put an end now to the sanctions he has against Venezuela now, and let President Nicolás Maduro return to his country.
Let him start taking those steps and then he will receive the recognition of the international community and the Peoples of the World, but he has to take steps in favor of Peace, not with words saying he loves Peace, but with actions to prove that he is a lover of Peace. And we agree with him on that, because we are peace loving, the world’s Peoples are peace loving.
Wars bring nothing but grief, suffering and more grief. Peace brings stability, it enables the fight against poverty, Peace creates conditions for Investment, for Work, for Education, for Health.
That is to say, Peace is what all the Peoples of the World and the US People themselves demand, there where horrendous crimes are committed continuously, where migrants from our countries who have gone there looking for work are murdered, for this individual does not want them. There is a persecution against immigrants and how many have now been killed, how many have now been murdered, how many have now been imprisoned... Yes, indeed!
So, we invoke Christ, for Christ is the Source of Truth, the Source of Consequence, because even when he could have set himself free from those who were going to crucify him, he did not do so. Because it was more powerful, as an example of Generosity and Love for the Peoples, to go along with his Sacrifice. And after the Sacrifice was the Resurrection, and there is Christ in all our Hearts, there is Christ in all our Peoples, Christ is there in all Humanity.
On this Anniversary, when we pay tribute to all those who died, and I can assure you, those who promote such acts of terror, attacking our People here, are responsible for all those who died. And we offer our Condolences, our Solidarity, to the Families who of those who were murdered but also to those who died on the side of the murderers; because the suffering in those Families is the same, the grief is the same.
This is the best proof that wars should not be repeated, and for this we have the greatest strength in our Consciences, in the Unity of our People, in the Unity of our Young People who are working, who are serving Nicaragua’s Families.
We managed to recover Peace 8 years ago, yes, because Peace had been taken away from us at that time, and we managed to get it back 8 years ago. And I think what happened there in those moments of terror later convinced the Nicaraguan people that there was no other way to follow here but the way of Peace.
And there's proof of that. Everything we have managed to advance in these Times of Peace is there for all to see, the Programs can be seen, the Housing for poor families can be seen, the construction of Roads, Hospitals, all of that is plainly to be seen!
Nicaraguan brothers and sisters, all this is in plain sight. And who is delivering these works? Nicaragua’s Youth, with all their Conscience, with all their Courage, proud to be putting into practice the Solidarity that is the source of Love, and the Source of Love is God, is Christ, is Our Lord.
Long live the Heroes and Martyrs!
Long live Peace!
Long live Peace!
Long live Peace!