[Marxism] Miskito leaders seek independence at the Hague courts

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[A brief press release in Spanish by Prensa Latina, the Cuban agency, 
follows].  

The Miskito leadership, who expressed a doleful mourning for Ronald 
Reagan upon his death, is now attempting to obtain full independence 
through the Hague court.  Perhaps the Miskito issue was not as simple 
as it looked, even to many among the best revolutionaries in the area 
("A legitimate nationalism misunderstood by the FSLN").  

Perhaps it was something entirely different, or at least much more 
complicated, an ethnic conflict created and fueled since the 17th 
Century by British (later American) imperialism, pitting the Miskitos 
against the bulk of the Latin American nation in order to carve out 
another portion, to create new Belizes, actual Falklands on Terra 
Firma. Perhaps the Miskitia issue has more to do with the Northern 
Ireland issue than with the Palestinian question...

Please note that through this release (which very carefully does not 
speak of "Miskitos" but of "Nicaraguan indigenous peoples", thus 
asserting Cuban -and traditional Latin American- official position 
that the Miskitos have no right to claim any form of "national" 
independence from Nicaragua) we learn that "the Miskitos" have not 
surrendered their claim for sovereignty, even after the Sandinistas 
attempted a greatly generous policy towards them.  It perspires, BTW, 
that they seem to have frozen those claims when the FSLN left power, 
and that they have begun to raise them again now, when FSLN may 
return. That is, they don't care about independence unless Nicaragua 
threatens to return to its own national goals and to confront, 
however mildly, imperialism.

It is my own humble (and not so uninformed) opinion that these social 
groups simply seek to further splinter Latin America, to secede, to 
give the back to the Latin American drama, and to finally become 
privileged partners of British imperialism -such as Belize- by 
creating local monoproductive Gibraltars.  

In the same way that one would brand an enemy any Cuban resident of 
Guantánamo who favored permanent secession and "independence" of the 
area, one should take with the greatest care the delicate balance 
between justice to local cultural traditions and Balkanizing efforts 
by local hirelings of imperialist powers, even if they may be "First 
Nation" hirelings.  The latter come in all forms and shapes, 
something British diplomatic wisdom has always known and we 
revolutionaries seem to be prone to sentimentally forget.


PRENSA LATINA PRESS RELEASE (Spa)

Indígenas nicaraguenses llevarán a la Haya demandas hechas a gobierno

Managua, 30 jun (PL) El Consejo de Ancianos de los indígenas 
nicaraguenses anunció hoy que llevará al Tribunal Internacional de la 
Haya las demandas presentadas al gobierno para que le respeten su 
independencia heredada de sus ancestros.  Lo anterior fue respaldado 
por más de 200 representantes de los grupos étnicos -miskitos, sumos, 
negros y ramas- que viven en la llamada zona de la Mosquitia, quienes 
participaron en la Asamblea general del Consejo.  El evento que 
concluyó la víspera en Bluefields, capital de la Región Autónoma del 
Atlántico Sur (RAAS), demandó al presidente Enrique Bolaños, se 
regresen a los indígenas las propiedades y derechos que heredaron de 
sus ancestros.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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