In a congratulatory message on the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista Popular Revolution and addressed to Gustavo Porras – his Nicaraguan counterpart-, Lazo evoked a thought from the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, who summarized the importance of that victory.

“The Sandinista victory is not only a victory over 45 years of Somoza (dictatorship), it is a victory over 150 years of foreign domination in the country.

It is a victory achieved over centuries (…) of conquest, over exploitation, and foreign rule, because if anything can be assured, it is that for the first time in its entire history, the people of Nicaragua have been completely free and independent,” he emphasized.

In his statement, the president of Cuba’s Council of State added that the island fondly remembers the shared history between both peoples, while advocating for continued strengthening of parliamentary relations between the two countries.

“It would be an honor for us to receive you and work together for the benefit of our nations and Latin American unity,” said the president of the Cuban legislature, who thanked the Central American nation for its continued denunciations of the harassment and blockade policy pursued by the United States against the largest of the Antilles.

On July 19, 1979, the third and final armed revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean triumphed here, following the Mexican (1910) and Cuban (1959) revolutions.

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