University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository NotiSur Latin America Digital Beat (LADB) 5-27-1994 Sandinistas Hold Second Party Congress in Nicaragua LADB Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/notisur Recommended Citation LADB Staff. "Sandinistas Hold Second Party Congress in Nicaragua." (1994). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/notisur/11503 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Latin America Digital Beat (LADB) at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in NotiSur by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. LADB Article Id: 56759 ISSN: 1060-4189 Sandinistas Hold Second Party Congress in Nicaragua by LADB Staff Category/Department: Nicaragua Published: 1994-05-27 On May 20-23, in Managua, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) held its second Party Congress. The approximately 500 delegates present gave a clear mandate to current FSLN Secretary- General Daniel Ortega to continue his leadership of the party. Ortega and his supporters in the party called for adherence to the FSLN's traditional revolutionary roots, rejecting demands by others in the party for far-reaching reforms and a new political and ideological platform. Women also won a major victory during the Congress, gaining five seats on the party's National Directorate (Direccion Nacional). Sergio Ramirez, head of the Sandinista bench in the National Assembly, was resoundingly defeated at the Congress, as he had been the principal advocate of sweeping changes in leadership and in the political direction of the party. Delegates voted not to reelect Ramirez to his post on the National Directorate.