revolution.
dictatorship radical measures. Already they have:
supporters, companies, mines and fisheries, leaving proprietors capitalist landowners, crops, 'WE HAVE WON the battle for political freedom, but we have yet to win economic independence.' The words of planning minister Henry Ruiz sum up the crisis threatening the future of Nicaragua's With the final overthrow of the brutal Somoza July, the Sandinista-led government inherited a country in ruins. Yet the Nicaraguans are pressing ahead with a long list of confiscated the vast wealth of Somoza and his nationalised all Nicaraguan banks, all insurance expropriated 55 per cent of cultivable 25 per cent in the hands of and only 20per percent with taken control of the export of all major cash brought in price controls, rent cuts and food subsidies to increase workers' real wages, mounted a nation-wide literacy campaign, earmarked 62 per cent of the government budget for health, education and housing (compared •launched a new extra jobs.
factory owners, Never.
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needed.
with Somoza's 17 per cent), economic plan to production, reduce inflation and create 94,000 But starved of foreign aid and hampered by growing resistance from bourgeois farmers and Nicaragua still faces formidable odds. International solidarity counts more than Says FSLN Europe Secretary Sylvia MacKewan: 'It's very important for us to have this support now — much more than when we were fighting.' She emphasises moral as well as material solidarity. 'In countries where our aims are being distorted we need people to defend our revolution and explain to workers what we are doing.' Nicaragua's three priority projects — the literacy campaign, medical supplies, and a life of milk a day for every child jumping off point for fund-raising events and street Early efforts. by including a film tour in Scotland, have brought an enthusiastic public response. But more action is CRUZADA NACIONAL DE ALFABETIZACION Ministerio de Educación poor as barrio Nicaragu: pavements, of raise happen.
members Altagracia.
union Taboada, Garcia.
7,000 Altagracia 'In the Says Rina: have years
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