Dora María Téllez

Dora María Téllez Arguello ( born November 21, 1955 in Matapalga ) is a Nicaraguan politician, historian and former guerrilla fighter of the Sandinistas. She became famous by the cast of the National Palace during the Nicaraguan Revolution, in which she performed as a negotiator of the FSLN.

Commander in the Nicaraguan civil war

Dora María Téllez came in 1955 in Matagalpa to the world as the daughter of María Téllez Dora and Ramón. During her school years she took on contacts with the revolutionary student movement and participated in demonstrations against the dictatorship. Since 1974 she was a member of the FSLN. As a medical student Téllez 1976 commander of the FSLN in the civil rebellion against the Nicaraguan dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle. For her activities she went into hiding. First, they fought in the mountains in the north of Nicaragua jointly with Victor Tirado, Daniel Ortega, Germán Pomares, Oscar Benavides Joaquín Cuadra and. The aim was the capture Ocotals, which, however due to the large resistance of the Guardia Nacional and the sparse arming the guerrillas did not succeed. However, the group took a few mountain villages, who had the reputation of being particularly arrested the dictator, including Mozonte.

The 22 -year-old Téllez was as Comandante Dos for leadership circle of the 26 members of the terceristischen wing of the FSLN, which in August 1978 under the direction of Edén Pastora occupied the National Palace and was attended by about 1,000 members of parliament hostage. Téllez took while conducting the negotiations with the dictator. This came the demands for the release of political prisoners, among whom Tomás Borge was the misreading and publishing a declaration of Terceristas in all the national media, the payment of a ransom, and the provision of flight aircraft after. Téllez was by the Nicaraguan people and to the world known as Comandante Dos, its code name during the action.

Subsequently Because of the large national and international media success of the action, got the FSLN great popularity and international pressure on the Somoza regime grew. Téllez, who had fled with other guerrillas to Panama, settled there and train military continues in Cuba and returned in February 1979 returned to Nicaragua, where they rejoined the fighting. Their popularity earned her an influential posts in the management structure of the terceristischen wing of the FSLN, which had united in January 1979 with the other two wings now back.

In the following five months Téllez led Sandinista troops across the country against the Somoza's National Guard. You were under the guerrillas and bushwhackers of every age and social origin, of military trained combatants to young people and old people with no combat experience. They first fought together with the forces of Edén Pastora, who had planned and carried out the occupation of the national palace as Comandante Cero, later with other troops in the central and northern regions of Nicaragua. According to the FSLN commander Mónica Baltodano surprised Téllez ' raids that led them in the northern provinces together with the fighters and fighter commander of Leticia Herrera, the enemies so much that this scattered.

According to the new Sandinista strategy of urban uprising led Dora María Téllez their forces from June in a house fighting in the city of León, the first major city fell to the Sandinistas after six weeks. As a result of this military victory Téllez was elected head of the guide rod. The conquest of León was followed by the capture of Managua two weeks later. After this final offensive of the Sandinistas in June, the dictator fled in July 1979.

Political career

After the Sandinista victory over the Somoza Téllez was first secretary of the political Stadtkommitées the FSLN in Managua ( 1979-1985 ). 1985-1990 she was Minister of Health of Nicaragua. In this role, she launched a health campaign, because of their rapid success, the UN Nicaragua gave a price.

After Téllez had left the FSLN, she founded in 1995 along with other Sandinista the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista (MRS ), a party who have other Sandinistas such as Ernesto Cardenal, Henry Ruiz, Mónica Baltodano or Sergio Ramírez connected. The presidential candidate of the MRS for the 2006 elections, Herty Lewites died before the elections to a natural cause of death.

On 4 June 2008 Téllez began a hunger strike to protest against the " dictatorship of Daniel Ortega ," which is also a Sandinista and was re- elected in 2006 as president. Ortega and his supporters removed from the MRS a week later the legality. Téllez ended their hunger strike on 16 June, after her doctors had advised due to health damage it.

Academic activities and Harvard Appeals

Dora María Téllez published a book on Nicaraguan history, in which they stressed the importance of the central northern region for the political and economic history of the country. In 2004 she was appointed Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University. However, they could not answer this call because she was granted because of their terrorist activities no permission to enter the United States.

In response, published 122 university graduates from Harvard University and 15 other North American universities a statement in their defense:

"The accusation made ​​by the State Department against Dora María Téllez ... Amounts to political persecution of Those Who have engaged in Overthrowing the atrocious dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua ... This regime which almost universally viewed as criminal and inhumane, and yet it financially and militarily supported by what the United States ... in reference to dictatorships, just as the State Department can not affirm did the activities of Nelson Mandela against the atrocious dictatorship of apartheid in South Africa were terrorist activities, neither can it affirm did Dora María 's activities against the Somoza dictatorship were atrocious terrorist. "

From 1998 headed Téllez a bibliographic research project for the URACCAN ( Universidad de las Reciones Autonomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaraguense ). Currently she is the coordinator of the project Memoria Centroamericana of the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamerica ( Ihnca ) of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA ) in cooperation with the Universidad de Costa Rica ( URC).

Publications

• En busca de la mujer nueva. In: Nicaragua 1984.
• ( with Omar Cabezas and Sergio Ramírez ) La Insurreccion de las paredes: pintas y graffiti de Nicaragua, Managua: Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, 1984.
• ( with Tomás Borge and Augusto César Sandino posthumously ): Nicaragua: la revolución de la mujer, Editorial Anteo, 1984.
• ( with Fabián Sánchez Medina ): Muera la gobierna! Colonización de Matagalpa Jinotega y (1820-1890), Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Nicaragüense ( URACCAN ), Managua 1999.
• Democracia y seguridad ciudadana: sistema de justicia penal - Nicaragua, Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Sociales y Económicas, Managua 1999.
• ( with Oscar -René Vargas, Roberto J. Cajina, Andrés Serbin and Diego Ferreyra ): Gobernabilidad Democrática y seguridad ciudadana: El caso de Nicaragua, CRIES, 2000.
• Colonicaión de Matagalpa Jinotega y ( 1820-1890 ). In: Boletín de nicaraguense bibliografía y documentación 125, 2004, pp. 111-156.
• La exclusión política, de & Youth, mujeres y pueblos indígenas: Propuestas para la Reforma política en Nicaragua Documento de Trabajo. (PDF, 1.3 MB) FES: Printex, 2009.
• Le gouvernement a polarize le pays et la crise économique during un dialogue nationally urgent.In: Amérique centrale, fragilité of démocraties 73, Summer 2009, pp. 101-112.