Revolutionary Hope To Hell
All revolutions circle back to the thing they fought against. The first to go are the real heroes.
August 22nd, 1978 was a day when the impossible in Nicaragua happened. The spark that made a better future possible. The daring storming of the National Palace in the capital, by 25 young people, on a wing and a prayer.
This event is immortalized in Nicaraguan history. It marked a tipping point and soon the horrible Somoza regime of brutality, excess, and terror would be undone.
What has become of these heroes? Let’s look at this.
Code name Number 1 - This year Hugo Torres, General Torres, died in prison. He died like a dog. Starved. Alone. An irony - Torres was directly responsible for a young Daniel Ortega being released from prison through his daring Christmas party raid on Somoza ministers.
Code name Number 2 - Dora Maria Tellez, a young 22-year-old then, still rots in prison. She will be next.
You would think the nation would value, applaud, praise, and revere these heroes of the revolution. But no.
"The firebrand revolutionary freedom fighter is the first to destroy the rights and even the lives of the next generation of rebels." Sam Alinksy
One thing that is almost a law of how revolutions work is that eventually they “go cannibalistic” and start eating their own heroes. And they become the thing they hate, the thing they fought against. They “revolve” and the circle completes. This is Nicaragua 40 some years later.
Take any revolution, once they start killing their heroes, the generals, the leaders who made the revolution happen - you know it’s over, the game is up. The revolutionaries have become the same evil they fought to exhume.
"Revolution that, like Saturn, devours its own children has deviated from its proper path.
"Revolutionaries should all be shot before they shoot the unrevolutionaries."
It’s what’s happened to all the FSLN (the political arm of the Sadinistas). The whole leadership has been eaten up by Daniel Ortega, the big slippery whale. His own brother Humberto, as big a hero as they get - rejects what Ortega is doing to the country. He’s only protected because he’s family.
Look at history. Any social or political revolution. Cuba. France. Russia. Vietnam. Italy, Vietnam, Turkey … What goes around comes around and eventually the heroes get eaten, the healthy organism becomes fat and evil at the top and becomes the thing it hated.
I remember in my youth, being a fan of Castro. The possibility that people could all have health care, education, and food on the table. Then, throughout the years, seeing the revolution start killing its heroes one by one. Finally, Castro signing the execution order of his best friend and revolutionary hero Arnal Ochoa. At that point, you knew the revolution was over, the circle had circled.
Power begets power. Absolute power is the goal, not the people.
I feel sorry for the people of Nicaragua. A captured mind. Unable to speak and breathe. Controlled by a dictator (once a revolutionary) who turned into a child molester, a deranged lunatic and a cannibal that eats his own heroes.
Post-scriptum. Watch this Academy Award winning film - a masterpiece on this topic.