Nicaragua Elections
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Party (PLI) of Virgilio Godoy, decided on Oct. 21 to pull out of the elections. FSLN's response was immediate. "It is completely impossible to change the e tion from Nov. 4," said Bayardo Arce, one of the FSLN commanders. The move the PLI, he said, "is not going to affect the revolutionary process. "
All the enemies of the Nicaraguan revolution are determined to undermine Nov. 4 elections. But the FSLN has stood up to the pressures. It has exposed undemocratic nature of the CDN and its alliance with the contras, and has set to defend the gains of the revolution at the polling place.
This issue of Forum is devoted to the Nicaraguan elections. Dianne Feeley and Margaret Mora, two members of Socialist Action, have recently returned from Nicaragua and have filed this special report for our readers. More than ever, the Nicaraguan people require the solidarity of working people in this country and around the world. This Forum is part of our contribution to this end.—THE EDITORS. and freedom to carry out their campaign.
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Under pressure from the United MANAGUA, Nicaragua-On Nov. 4 the Nicaraguan people will carry out their first free elections. They will do so despite a CIA-funded war that is raging on their borders and despite Washington's vicious economic stranglehold.
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