When we talk about the left, we're talking about a political system that puts before the needs of the people rather than profits, a participatory system for citizens and a better redistribution of wealth. However, for some people right, left, would totalitarian because it is opposed to capitalism, a system that represents the so-called "freedom." Here is the example of Nicaragua, a small Central American who took his destiny in the late 70's by making a revolution against a military dictatorship backed by the United States and banana companies. We could also take the example of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, but we found it particularly objective. This is the excerpt from the "black book of the United States." Comrade Vez thank you for having found.
This shows that the left can be more democratic than the right dare claim to be.
When the Reagan administration took care to portray the Sandinistas as a Marxist dictators lélinistes linked to international terrorists, academic studies more balanced, carried on their political career and their behavior in office, wrote in a model of altruism democratic and humanitarian tinged with revolutionary fervor perfectly understandable. The succession of the Somoza dictatorship, which did their power as the Somoza family relationship with the U.S. government and with American companies, had been brutal and corrupt. The Somoza had grown rich and had enriched their friends at the expense population, and they had their impopsé law through the much hated National Guard.
risen to power in 1979, the Sandinistas, who had led for decades a guerrilla war against Somoza, enjoyed immense popular support and controlled the army well. Durrant then a free and democratic election in 1984 the Sandinistas were able to see.
While other schemes are used, once in power, to execute the defeated leaders and to shoot the loyal partisans, the Sandinistas relinquished such atrocities, saying they would lower the level Somoza. Ils déclarèrent illégal tout traitement inhumain, cruel ou dégradant et limitèrent à trente ans la peine d'emprisonnement maximale. Ils considéraient que le droit à la vie, qu'ils s'était engagés a respecter, leur commandait d'assurer le bien-être de leur citoyens.
Ils lancèrent en 1980 une campagne d'alphabétisation, nationalisèrent les banques, les resources naturelles et les compagnies étrangères, et instituèrent des réformes agraires. Ces nationalisations furent au profits des citoyens réduit à la misère par les années de corruption du clan Somoza et de ces amis. Ce furent ces réformes qui provoquèrent la fuite des élites économiques most of the country to the United States, and attracted the attention of the Reagan administration.
Less than a month after his accession to popuvoir the LSCUF had established a supreme court composed of three judges from the Sandinista party, three opposition parties and a judge with no political affiliation. The new government also created the Charter of fundamental rights and guarantees of the people of Nicaragua. Sandinistas also made a remarkable thing: having announced their arrival in power, they would hold elections as soon as possible and no later than 1985, they began to keep his word. Many schemes promise much and do not. Having repealed Somoza a law which restricted the Conservative party then in power, one-third of the seats in Congress, they guaranteed the right to form political parties and went ridiculously easy to register with the government: we n'exigeaitque filing a name, a graphic symbol of a program policy and name a few dozen leaders. The
LSCUF constutuante created an assembly of 90 members elected by proportional and an executive elected by vote poppulaire. Similarly, all political parties would receive equal funding, the same air time on radio and television, and have their own observers when recording, and scrutinize the counting of ballots. Thus, in a little over 5 years, a revolutionary government instutué an electoral system that guaranteed citizens the maîntrise their own destiny. This was one of the elections the most correct and most remarcable modern times. Three years later, in 1987 the Government adopted, after 18 months of consultations, a constitution that strengthened the rights of citizens of Nicaragua. As''leaders''of democracy in the world and défenceurs of human right, the U.S. should have applauded these events; they chose instead, as shown in the website of the State Department did not even recognize that it had occurred.
Source: Ibid, Noam Chomksy, nessary Illusions www.zmag.org / chomsky, Andrew A. Reding, op.cit., P.15-17, Peter Scowen, The Black Book of United States
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