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Nicaragua: Hundreds of Former Sandinista Fighters March to Demand Housing, Pensions

HeadlineAug 23, 2017

In Nicaragua, hundreds of former Sandinista fighters marched in the capital Managua Tuesday to demand the housing, healthcare and pension payments promised to the retired veterans of the Nicaraguan resistance movement that brought Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to power. This is retired fighter Carlos Garcia.

Carlos Garcia: “To us, those mutilated from the war, injured by combat, where are we immortalized? We’re not immortalized, Commander Daniel Ortega. We’re still alive, and we want a dignified resolution. The necessary time to do this has been since 1978. To ask for this right, like revolutionary Rosario Murillo said, is a right that we deserve, a right that won’t be lost. And now, all of us here are demanding our right.”

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