The march included peasant farmers, union members, all branches of the women's movement, and representatives a great number of NGO's. The marchers began at the University of Central America, marched past the new cathedral, then to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on to the National Assembly and then finally to the President's offices. Seven hundred Mulukuke os trucked in for the march and Grethel Sequiera, community organizer from Mulukuk , led the rally, calling for President Alem n to open his heart and let the people of the affected communities work and struggle for a better life. The document calls for the government to respect the life of Dorothy Granada and to permit her to continue her work with the poor. Last week Daniel Ortega was declared the victor in the FSLN primary and thus the most likely FSLN presidential candidate for November's national elections.
Political realism seems to be the reason.
None has the necessary following to beat Ortega. Violeta Chamorro, whose editor husband Pedro Joaqu n was murdered by Somoza, and who was briefly part of the original revolutionary government in 1979 before returning to political life to defeat Ortega in 1990, has consistently polled way out in front of the field in terms of trust, credibility and perceived capacity to pull the country together. She was never personally tainted with the corruption of her administration as Arnoldo Aleman has been with his. Dora Maria T llez, now head of the group, was quick to emphasize that the much-smaller MRS would seek a convergence, not a swallowing up. On the other, people associate him with the mistakes of the past, so he arouses an almost equal amount of antipathy.