Father Miguel D'Escoto, Foreign Minister Nicaragua, talked to Brian Wilson
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-09-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 6 →
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News Bulletin No 20 May-June 1983 are giving better answers than those of richer countries which have not suffered in the way Nicaragua has suffered.
We have become a ray. of hope for many people in Latin America who would like to make similar progress and achieve similar independence. Latin America is now on its threshhold. There was always this fear that it was an impossible dream. Nicaragua has shown that it is feasible. Therefore, from the allowed to core, ve. it's got at we are exporting revolution -it's that the example of patriotism tends to be contagious.
Can Western Europe have any influence over the United States in these matters?
Europe should help the United States to deal with this phenomenon. Most European countries that did have colonies were able to come to grips with the idea that there would come a time when those colonies would demand independence and autonomy, and that this should not be interpreted as hostility but as an inevitable progression of history.
Instead of meeting us head-on, the US should be helping us to deal with our problems -more rationally, intelligently, calmly.
They should understand that, where maybe they won't be able to control our country as they did up to now, that needn't be the end of the world for them.
Incidentally, it's being said today that the US sees this as part of an East-West conflict. Maybe that allows them to get a bit of sympathy from their people at home. But we know that things never change. They invaded us in 1912, before the. Russian Revolution had