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UNO : A PROGRAM FOR YOUTH
Editorial from "La Prensa" - August 28,1989
The government plan proposed by the National Opposition
Union (UNO) represents a victory of Nicaraguan unity
against the Sandinista disaster, and allows the new
Nicaraguan generations the hope of living in peace, free
from the fanatical militarism and economic oppression which
"sandinismo" brought with it.
UNO's program is an oppportunity for all Nicaraguans,
without any kind of distinctions.
Looked at as a whole, UNO's program is a harmonious
assertion for Nicaragua, setting aside the painful effects
of "sandinismo's" departure from the original 1979
revolution, it once again can put Nicaragua on the way
towardsa just and free society with equal opportunity for
all.
It should be pointed out to the generation of Nicaraguans
which has grown up during this painful period of obligatory
military service, ration queues, and ideological persecution
from primary school to university, that UNO's program is a
step towards the future and by no means a return to the
evils of the past.
"Sandinismo" will try and make propaganda around this,
because in these 10 years that is all"sandinismo" has proved
to be: a lot of propaganda and slogans, with no benefits for
the people, only sacrifices. The reason for this is that
"sandinismo", the FSLN and the nine "comandantes" who would
like to become eternal dictators of Nicaragua, represent an
enslaving ideology which imposes state dominationn on the
individual.
UNO's unitary document meshes the social ideas held by the
left wing parties with conservatism's economic and political
methods, the ideas of the liberals, and the progressive
social ideals of modern day Christian political tendencies.
The fact that all the political tendencies of the country.-
conservatives, liberals, social democratsy, socialists and
communists- reached together among themselves in order to
produce this important document allows the nation to
perceive "sandinismo's" ideological lack of control, which
as a product of badly handled revolutionary enthusiasm,
blinded by fanaticism, has brought Nicaragua nothing but
poverty and destruction.
UNO's document takes the desires for the social improvement
of Nicaragua and translates it into definite projects, doing
away with totalitarian and absolutist interference from the
State. UNO's government plan is a youthful one, while the
Sandinistas "historical" one which they will put forward has
grown old and become obsolete and has proved to be no more
than graffitti on walls, slogans on the radio, marches,
proclamations and speeches...a lot of speeches. "Sandinismo"
does not, and never has,bsenefitted the people.
UNO, in making the promise of a truly democratic Nicaraguan
revolution, will put to rights the Sandinistas' great
agrarian reform swindle: campesinos were only given title
deeds so they could become eternal pawns of the State,
working lands which would always belong to the State. UNO is
offering a real agrarian reform, where each campesino will
have the title deeds to his own land. This is agrarian
reform as it should be, whereas what "sandinismo" did was
try and make permanent slaves out of the campesinos.
UNO is also offering free commerce, which in the past
created solvent Nicaraguans at all levels and allowed
everybody the opportunity to advance while at the same time
increasing the flow of goods available to the Nicaraguan
people.
UNO's program will end the fears experienced by young men
and their families regarding obligatory military service
which is no more than a brutal and genocidal instrument of
the Sandinistas' for persecuting young Nicaraguans. Since
by law the country's armed forces are Sandinista, youth are
being forced to receive military training and die in a war
to defend the flag of a political party.
UNO's program gives due consideration to the victims of
Obligatory Military Service. To the thousands of young men
who were taken away from the basketball courts and the
classrooms, UNO will give steady jobs and training, not with
rifles and grenades, but with teaching programs and lands
for those of campesino origin who saw their lives cut short
because they had to report to the garrison and patrol the
hills.
UNO's program also intends to reestablish the old family
relationship levels which existed before the Sandinistas
wanted to impose state control over family relations and do
away with the values most dear to Nicaraguans.
The Sandinistas' zeal for abolishing the family nucleus in
order to turn it into a political force for its own ends
will be completely eradicated, as is only fitting for such a
pernicious and evil plan against what is most sacred to man:
his own family.
UNO's government plan offers the Atlantic Coast real
integration with the rest of Nicaragua, while respecting the
region's cultural values. "Sandinismo" deceived the people
of the Coast, first by attempting to destroy their social
foundations and second, by leading them to believe they are
autonomous when in truth they have never been more subject
to the dictates of Sandinista party dictates. UNO will
change all this.
Above all, the new generation must understand that UNO's
program represents true democratic freedom, and that the
FSLN's totalitarian, absurd, and oppressive plan against the
rights and the freedom of Nicaragua has breathed its last.
And, most importantly, today's youth cannot remain unaware
of the fact that the Sandinistas' facade of democracy is
only that, a facade. The Sandinistas' real intentionsto
subject Nicaragua forever to a Stalinist form of tyranny are
there underneath it all and they will not hesitate to
introduce such a tyranny if Nicaragua "rebels" in any way
with the 1990 elections.
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