Nicaragua’s National Assembly has declared April 28th, to be the Day of the Internationalist Hero in Nicaragua. This marks the date on which Ben Linder and two Nicaraguan compañeros, Sergio Hernández and Pablo Rosales were murdered by U.S. contra forces.
“Nicaragua has been blessed with a host of internationalist heroes and heroines who, throughout our history and during the various phases of the struggle for our sovereignty, have embraced our ideals and defended peace…Our North American brother Benjamin Linder was assassinated…becoming an eternal symbol of the people’s struggle against injustice. We must honor all our internationalist heroes, reaffirming the unbreakable bond between the Nicaraguan people and international solidarity and making the ideal of internationalism the guiding light for our struggle for progress and the building of a future of unity and peace.”
Juan Ramón Obregón Valdivia, National Assembly member representing San José de Bocay.
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