Stalin Vladimir Centeno, Stalin Magazine, October 6, 2025
Eighteen years ago, on January 10, 2007, Nicaragua regained hope with the return of the Sandinista Front to power.
Since then, our Good Government has demonstrated that power only has meaning when it is exercised to serve. Today, almost two decades later, we remain a deeply socialist and supportive government, one that has put Nicaraguan families at the center and transformed daily life with concrete actions. In these 18 years we have defeated the extreme poverty that was suffocating our people. The Nicaragua where millions survived in misery is long gone; today the poor can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Our only enemy, poverty, has been reduced like never before in the nation’s history thanks to a model that redistributes wealth, invests in people, and opens up opportunities and jobs for all.
Free public education has ceased to be a promise and has become a tangible reality. Our children no longer go hungry while studying: they receive daily school snacks, have free uniforms, books, and notebooks, and have decent schools that welcome them without charging a cent. This effort has allowed more families to send their children to school and has made the right to learn an essential pillar of a socialist and united Nicaragua.
Comrade Rosario Murillo expressed it with the force of her being: “Now we are in these other times, building Social Justice, building a Future from Christianity, Socialism, and Solidarity; and there we are recognizing just demands and also seeing where the causes lie, because the causes are there in those other times of darkness, selfishness, and abandonment.”
In health, the change is equally profound. People no longer die waiting on a hospital bench or are left holding a prescription without being able to buy medicine. Today, we have modern hospitals equipped with state-of-the-art MRI scanners, multi-slice CT scanners, digital mammograms, linear accelerators for cancer treatment, advanced laparoscopy equipment, and well-equipped operating rooms. Furthermore, maternity care has been modernized, protecting pregnant women and their babies with specialized care that was previously unthinkable for a humble family.
Progress is a hallmark of this new era. The Dr. Óscar Danilo Rosales Argüello Teaching Hospital (HEODRA) in León is today the largest hospital investment in our history, with up-to-date operating rooms, a 3-tesla MRI scanner, a 128-slice CT scanner, and more than twenty specialties.
In Managua, the Comandante Julio Buitrago overpass streamlines traffic with a four-lane bridge and LED lighting; the Héroes de la Insurrección Track, with more than 9 kilometers and multiple roundabouts, connects and energizes the capital; the Chocorrón Buitrago Soccer Stadium and the Stanley Cayasso Multi-Sports Baseball Stadium are being built to international standards for youth and sports; and the new Nejapa overpass completes a modern road network along Las Piedrecitas and Siete Sur, boosting the economy and mobility. Projects that once seemed impossible are now a reality with every well-managed córdoba.
National electrification reached 100% of the territory. Communities, municipalities, departmental capitals, cities, and remote areas of the country now have electricity, improving the economy of families and the entire country. Drinking water is also a blessing that reaches every home, ensuring health and well-being. New paved roads allow farmers to produce more, transport their crops, and sell directly in city markets, thus boosting economic development.
Furthermore, our Good Government builds decent housing, houses for the People, preventing poor families from living on the streets and restoring their right to a safe home. In the social sphere, our Good Government has guaranteed food security with programs such as Zero Hunger, which empowers thousands of small producers and rural families to generate their own livelihoods with fair technical and credit support. Today, Nicaraguans are no longer evicted from their homes or suffocated by exorbitant loans with unpayable interest rates: our government has curbed this abuse and created financing mechanisms and facilities that protect families’ finances, preventing them from losing the little they have and continuing to fall victim to unscrupulous banks. Now, thanks to the Sandinista Front, they have a real path to moving forward.
Peace and stability have been the fertile ground for all this progress. While other countries bleed to death in conflict, Nicaragua has maintained order, citizen security, and an environment conducive to productive investment, never surrendering its sovereignty or yielding to unjust sanctions. Nicaragua is today the safest country in Central America and a model taken as a benchmark throughout the region thanks to a community-based security model that focuses on the people.
On this path of independence and dignity, Comrade Rosario Murillo reaffirmed: Nicaragua wants a model of social justice, Christian, socialist, and with solidarity, contrary to the global imperialist and capitalist model that predominates in the world and destroys human beings, nature, and Mother Earth.
Being socialist and supportive isn’t just an election-day rhetoric; it’s a reality that transforms lives. Every school, every hospital, every road, and every social program are tangible proof of a government that serves the people and turns hope into concrete work.
Today, Nicaragua advances with the leadership, vision, humanism, strategy, strength, and firm direction of Co-President Rosario Murillo, and with the revolutionary spirit and historical experience of Co-President Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra, alongside a people who are exercising their right to decide, to build, and to live in peace and dignity. Eighteen years later, we remain steadfast: socialist, united, and victorious.
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