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- Subject: Nica:FSLN Issues Another Warning to Chamorro
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- Title: FSLN Reaffirms Commitment to Poor/ED-LP
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- from El Diario La Prensa
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- edlp 11/10
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- Nicaragua
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- BORGE CONFIRMS FSLN COMMITMENT TO STABILITY AND THE POOR
-
- In a warning to President Violeta Chamorro that she has abused the
- people's patience, Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)
- leader Tomas Borge announced on Monday, November 9 the FSLN's
- decision to seek stability without renouncing its commitment to
- the poor. "Patience has its limits, and it takes only one more
- straw to break the camel's back," Borge said to a crowd of
- followers gathered at the Plaza de la Revolucion in Managua to
- celebrate the 16th anniversary of the death in combat of FSLN
- founder Carlos Fonseca. Borge, 60 years old and the only surviving
- founding member of the FSLN, criticized government corruption, the
- returning of property to former Somoza collaborators and the
- attempts to dismantle the Sandinista Popular Army (EPS) and the
- national police.
-
- He also criticized the attitudes of Sandinista militants who
- sometimes "stop being revolutionaries, abandon the revolutionary
- attitude," while he reiterated the validity of the political
- thought of Carlos Fonseca, whose ethic was "very defined." He
- added that Fonseca promoted a "new morality," he identified
- himself from a critical point of view with socialism and would
- unhesitatingly defend the Cuban revolution which he admired and
- respected.
-
- Alluding to the different political currents within the Sandinista
- party, Borge added that Fonseca's thought can help to find the
- path which has been momentarily lost.
-
- A meeting is scheduled to take place during the next week between
- FSLN leaders and representatives of Chamorro's government to
- analyze an economic plan proposed by the Sandinistas to modify the
- government's economic adjustment plan. (NOTIMEX 11/10)
-
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- NICARAGUAN WORKERS' POCKETS EMPTIER THAN EVER
-
- A tax increase decreed by the Nicaraguan government in October has
- decreased the average worker's purchasing power by 30%, according
- to labor leader Ronaldo Membreno. The prices of basic consumer
- products have gone up "moderately," said Membreno, but the rates
- for water, electricity and telephone service have increased by
- 15%. [Editor's Note: Under the Sandinista government these
- services were subsidized. The Chamorro government did away with
- these subsidies, automatically increasing their cost to the
- public.] Preliminary calculations estimate that inflation for the
- month of October reached 2%. The rate for September was -1.18%.
-
- The tax increase was intended to provide the government with some
- $40 million in income to help pay the fiscal deficit, 12% of the
- Gross Domestic Product, which was paid in part through foreign
- assistance. Nonetheless, the delay in the disbursement of $104
- million in aid promised by the US government has endangered the
- effectiveness of the government's economic stabilization program,
- which includes a reduction in public spending.
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- Membreno acknowledged that the government must "fill its coffers"
- but questioned whether this should be done at the cost of the
- Nicaraguan people. "We agree with a tax which has a greater affect
- on the large business enterprises and not on the people who earn
- starvation wages and are suffering a 60% unemployment rate," said
- Membreno. The average salary in Nicaragua is $40 per month for
- workers. Professionals earn an average of $300 per month.
- Importers also object to the tax increase because they believe it
- will provoke an increase in black market goods, endangering the
- legal import business and a stagnation in commercial activity.
- (AFP 11/10)
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- translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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