LEA GUIDO DE LOPEZ is the Minister for Social Welfare in the new government. Lea is a Sandinista who previously spent some time in Switzerland, where she was a member of the Revolutionary Marxist League, Swiss section of the Fourth International. She described to us some of the problems of running a brand new ministry.
UNDER the dictatorship provision whatsoever for the welfare of the people, not even at a primitive level. The corruption at every level of the state ensured that the people were forgotten.
So as far as social welfare is concerned this is completely ministry. dictatorship there was no policy for protecting children, youth, WUBICI Absolutely nothing. ministry, the comrades said to me: "You're the minister'.
Series of frauds So we have begun to work and define what should be the functions of this department as well as investigating how the money was spent on the few programmes that existed under the dictatorship. series of frauds. Military plans to assassinate opponents, bribes paid to certain trade union leaders, and so on. We have even discovered a racket whereby the dictatorship sold children abroad.
What are our problems? enormous expectations in relation should be socially planned. They want a sharp rise in their standard of living and it is obvious that from our point of view this social plan is the area in which we can carry out a number of fundamental reforms demands being raised concerning health, education, welfare, etc.
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