Cuban First Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa, participated July 19 in the national commemoration of the Sandinista Revolution’s 40th anniversary, in Managua, Nicaragua, stating that the triumph of the Sandinistas represents a victory against foreign intervention in the nation, and reaffirming the willingness of our peoples to struggle and resist imperialism.
Gathered in the Plaza La Fe, more than 500 international guests accompanied thousands of Nicaraguans during the celebration, where the vice president of this sister nation, Rosario Murillo, insisted "The brave and honorable people of our Nicaragua, always blessed and free, never sells out or surrenders.”
"At 40 years, full of glory, youth, history, and future, the Sandinista Popular Revolution marches on successfully and proudly," she said.
“Nicaragua pains them, love pains them, we sing, on the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, that changed Latin American history,” wrote Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez on Twitter, while congratulating Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Vice President Rosario Murillo, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, and this sister people.
Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, recalled the words of Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro, who said, “The Sandinista victory is not only a victory over 45 years of Somoza; it is a victory over 150 years of foreign domination.”
