In the 1980s, Nicaragua took the US to the ICJ over the CIA’s support for far-right Contra death squads that terrorized Nicaraguan civilians. The Hague ruled in Nicaragua’s favor in 1986, determining that Washington had repeatedly violated international law. To this day, however, the US has refused the Court’s order that it pay reparations.
At the July 19 anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled said she was “proud that you all [Nicaraguans] have elected a leadership that has fought imperialism, colonialism, that has triumphed, and that is triumphing today in the path toward development”.
“I am proud of this leadership”, Khaled said, “which has denounced the killers of children and babies before the International Court of Justice, with Germany, which is giving its support to the killers of children and babies”.
Khaled highlighted “the revolution and resistance that we have in common” between the Palestinian and Nicaraguan peoples.
Khaled is a historical leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a revolutionary socialist group that has fought for decades against Israel’s illegal occupation and colonialism.
In a statement, the PFLP congratulated Nicaragua on the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution and stressed their “shared goals against imperialism, enemy of the peoples and enemy of humanity”.
“The US and its imperialist policy have failed in many countries”, said the PFLP, emphasizing that the US empire has “not been able to impose their colonialist project” in West Asia and Latin America, due to resistance by progressive forces.
Nicaragua has two parks dedicated to Palestine. In 2016, it created the Park of the State of Palestine. In 2024, Nicaragua renamed a main road in Managua after Gaza, and it opened a Palestine Park in the center of the capital.
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