Part 2. Living under a dictatorship: in the name of the party.

[DiegoO]

In my previous MyTake I explained how everything began. This one is the continuation of it. Precisely when I was in my last year of highschool.

Been locked up in the school gym, listening to political propaganda of the elected party, was tiresom. Why they locked us for almost an hour before the official speach? My mind went straight to the stories I heard from my mom, and people close to the family. Stories of horror, where young teens and adults were kidnapped by the military, and forced to fight against the armed resistance, called "Contra" (militia financed by the US).

Who ever didn't agree to join the military, was executed.

Sandinista's military

Rebeld group: Contra

Those were bloody days from what I was told. Some, who tried to enscape from reclutement were executed, others were jailed, after hiding for days in the most unthinkable places, like graveyards. A guy I knew, said he ran to a graveyard and hide in a thumb;sleeping beside a corpse, to scape military service.

My mom remember seen with a friend of her, a pile of bodies been transported in trucks; while she was hiding in an old theater. She also heard rumors of how the parks of the city were filled with young soldiers who died in battle.

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The extreme poverty of those days was also present in the conversations I had with people who lived to tell their story. Lines of persons waiting to get their portion of donated food products, was common, troughout the 80s

Having to sit down and hear the political propaganda , made me think of what was, of what is, and what was coming next.

A few weeks later, according to the new government, every highschool student had to become part of the literacy program, to decrease the amount of iliterates in the country. I heard that and I knew I had to follow up the system, if I ever wanted to complete highschool. The program consisted of teaching 3 iliterates to write and read.

I did my best, knowing it shouldn't even be my job. Why not get qualified teachers? It was only populism. They wanted the common citizens to believe in them. Actually, they succeed, until 2018, the year the population woke up from the sold-out ilusion of a better future, under sandinism.

[OlderAndWiser]

The thought of that happening in the US is very, very scary!

[DiegoO]

It would be extremely terrifying if it happened in the US.