1992/01/01 by Andrés Pérez · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Legal and Labor Studies #Politics and Society in Latin America
paper · doi:10.2307/166151
openalex publication_date 1992/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/24
…ideological rectification is worthless without corresponding practical behavior, yet without a Marxist ideological orientation positive practical behavior is insufficient. Carlos Fonseca Amador Last Testament The Sandinistas celebrated their first party congress on 19 July 1991, the eleventh anniversary of the day of the “Triumph,” but this time the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) had little to celebrate and a lot to worry about. The party that once claimed so surely to be the vanguard of the revolution … the vanguard of all Nicaraguan patriots … the vanguard of national liberation … the vanguard of the workers and peasants … the living instrument of the revolutionary classes … the guide toward a new society was now struggling to reconstitute itself as an effective political organization after being ousted from power in 1990 by the population it claimed to represent and lead.