Nicaraguan trade unionists to highlight the secretary of the Nicaraguan Timberworkers Union, spoke at a meeting in Glasgow called to organise solidarity with the revolution in El Salvador. This is what he had to say. I want to make known our fears of American intervention in our country:
Today the US government attempting undermine the victory won by our people at the cost of much suffering on July 1979. They have cut off economic aid and dIc trying to starve out the people of Nicaragua The remaining $15m of economic aid promised to us after the revolution has been blocked, and credit for the purchase of wheat and staple food for our people has been suspendThe US government is also allowing the training ex-Somoza National Guardsmen camps Miami and elsewhere.
Twelve days au. over 1,000 ex-Somoza National Guardsmen in Honduras after training in the The US government is content the 45,000 people it helped to kill and the 150,000 it helped to wound with its aid to the Somoza dictatorship. While the workers in our country are trying to reconstruct the economy, the US is trying to undermine our revolutionary process.
They have been involved in attempts to sabotage providing the arms with which more than 150 members of our workers' militias have been killed near the Honduran border.
acieliat Challenge Our country was ruins in July 1979 Industry was practically destroyed, and the country When revolution triumphed, per cent of the population was illiterate and our people had access to medical facilities Ours is a small country of 2½ million people. know what war means as a result of what we have suffered through own flesh and blood. We don't want war. But it the US forces the issue and prepares to invade, then we will take them on.
The threat to our revolution only from the US but from sectors within our own coun try who are being used as tools by the US. We, the you, ese people or ask. , asK you, the people and and throughout th world, to help, to give us solidarity; by denouncıng the We know that the reconstruction of our counwill be difficult. know that many obstacles will be placed in our way. But our revolutionary spirit will triumph over Just as the people of El Salvador are fighting for their liberation, So Hallan OUr fighting; spirit and are ready to raise again the cry we have raised so often before: 'Patria • muerte!' (Free country or death!). US HANDS OFF EL SALVADOR!
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threat of US intervention in their country. One of them, ENRIQUE ROBLEDO, the general