Statement by MUR on El Salvador
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SOCIALIST ACTION JANUARY 1990 17 The following declaration was released by the Executive Committee of the Movement for Revolutionary Unity (MUR) in Nicaragua on Nov. 12. The MUR is fielding exSandinista leader Moisés Hassan for president as well as 180 other candidates for national and local office in the upcoming Feb. 25 Nicaraguan elections.
The military offensive launched by the Salvadoran guerrilla fighters has the potential of resulting in a veritable mass insurrection against the extreme right-wing government of El Salvador.
Political observers have noted that the purpose of the armed offensive taken by the FMLN leadership was to apply military pressure on the counterrevolutionary ARENA government in order to bring it to the negotiating table.
The Executive Committee of the MUR believes that the participation of the Salvadoran masses in this insurrectionary process has broken through the eventual objective of negotiations, placing instead on th agenda the need for the seizure of politic: power. In this sense, the MUR supports revolutionary victory of the Salvadoran per ple over the military dictatorship.
If the revolution in El Salvador were t triumph, it would reinforce the revolutionar process in Central America, particularly i Nicaragua. The MUR therefore supports th revolutionary struggle in El Salvador. We support a definitive revolutionary victory against the military dictatorship of Cristiani.
The MUR also calls attention to the possibility of direct military intervention by U.S. imperialism in El Salvador, initially, and also in Panama and Nicaragua. For these reasons the MUR calls on the revolutionary people of Nicaragua to mobilize in support of the Salvadoran revolution, for their final victory over the Salvadoran dictatorship.
The MUR also calls on all the political parties of the revolutionary movement to carry out joint actions in support of the revolution in El Salvador.