The vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, lamented the death of the eternal trade unionist of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), Robert Gonzalez. The Ortega supporter died this Tuesday, November 8, according to government propaganda media reports.
“We woke up to the sad news of the death of our colleague Roberto González, a historic man from the Sandinista Front, a fighter for workers’ rights,” said the spokeswoman for the dictatorship in her speech this afternoon.
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She reiterated that González died of a massive heart attack, which according to her was confirmed by the trade unionist’s life partner, Silvia Tamara.
“How painful! Especially in the face of the unforeseen, because Roberto —González— was fine, he was healthy, he was strong; working tirelessly, but we see that suddenly the transition to another plane of life arrived, and she —the trade unionist’s partner— was very hurt, she talked to me about her children (…) and about Roberto’s mother, Mrs. María Lidia Gaitán, who He is almost 100 years old,” commented the deputy dictator.
Murillo sent a “victorious hug” to González’s family, “because every day we move forward because there is a country, there is peace, and so we move forward with the sustained work of colleagues like Roberto who contributed day by day, contributing to all the victories that we have been achieving and those that lie ahead.
He also took the opportunity to greet the members of the executive committee of the Central Sandinista de Trabajadores (CST) that in liberal governments carried out riots that caused damage to state buildings.
«We greet Indalecio, comrade Pedro Ortega and all those who have gathered this morning to announce Roberto’s departure. We tell everyone that he has not left us, here is his walk and here we are all precisely defending the future of the workers ». he said he.
Leader of the riots in the 90s
Roberto González served as general secretary of the Central Sandinista de Trabajadores (CST), a union organization that brings together union confederations and federations.
It was founded after the triumph of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution. The CST is closely linked to the FSLN. It brings together unions such as the Federation of Health Workers (Fetsalud), the National Association of Educators of Nicaragua (ANDEN) and the Association of Rural Workers (ATC), among others.
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Despite the fact that Ortegaism has jumped in flattery to the trade unionist who was a deputy, he made it obvious that he was also the one who led the transportation riots in the 1990s to destabilize the governments of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Arnoldo Alemán and Enrique Bolaños Geyer. These FSLN riots were part of Ortega’s promise when he lost the elections against Barrios, that he warned he would “govern from below.”
In 2019, he took advantage of the National Assembly of Trade Unions to threaten businessmen with “prison” if they refused to pay taxes, a position that has gained strength after the dictator pointed out that big capital can close their businesses if they do not have to assume their tax commitments.
