The mural above is chronological. The people on the left are from the revoution of the 1930's in which the Nicaraguans successfully liberated themselves from the US. Augustus Cesar Sandino is on the top, in the hat. He would eventually become the figurehead of freedom and revolution in Nicaragua. His ideology is used by the Frente Sandinista de Liberaciòn Nacional (FSLN), which is currently in power.
Ernesto Che Guevara is in the center. Che actually means The Dude, in colloquial terms. Che led his own revolution in Cuba in 1959, which opened the idea of the possibility of people achieving freedom from US imperialism.
The people on the right established the FSLN government after the Nicaraguan revolution starting in 1979.
Ernesto Che Guevara is in the center. Che actually means The Dude, in colloquial terms. Che led his own revolution in Cuba in 1959, which opened the idea of the possibility of people achieving freedom from US imperialism.
The people on the right established the FSLN government after the Nicaraguan revolution starting in 1979.
The mural above depicts some of the first generals of the revolution of 1979. The Pepsi bottle in the center represents a photograph which brought global attention to the revolution. See that photo below.
The mural above names people from León who died in the revolution.
Below are various other photographs from the revolution. Our guide made the revolution real by speaking with such conviction and passion. He and many other people, mostly high school students between the ages of 16 and 20, fought for their freedom and the change they needed to see. Many gave up their lives in the same streets I have walked all week. They were taken in places I have seen walking around town, places that are now filled with people selling vegetables and meat, children playing, families doing family things. These same streets hold women selling the tastiest tortillas I have ever eaten, that they made at home. They also hold more difficult things, like people begging for money or food, and people stumbling around, intoxicated on substances to take away the hunger. Life is complicated. I want to understand more, and it will have to start with understanding Spanish better. This museum was inspiration in that way. The world is complex.