Fabrizio Casari: Sandinista Nicaragua: 19 Years Revolutionizing The moment Commander Daniel Ortega was proclaimed President on January 10, 2007, he declared it was the people who had assumed the presidency. The objective was—and remains—to lift as many people as possible out of poverty in the shortest possible time; to build a national project based on harnessing its resources for the benefit of the entire population.
Between 2007 and 2025, absolute poverty fell from 17.5% to 6.9%, and relative poverty from 48.3% to 24.9%. In a country where, until 2007, only 54% of the territory had electricity, today that figure has reached 99.5%, with most of it generated from renewable sources. The number of hospitals has increased from 33 to 77. From 2,044 kilometers of paved roads in 2007, now there are 5,289 kilometers, with 95% of municipalities connected to the national road network—crucial links for the growth of the regional economy. Maternal mortality has fallen from 93 to 16 per 100,000 live births, and infant mortality from 29 to 9.5 per 10,000 live births. Unemployment stands at 2.4% and inflation under 3%. .All of this has produced in these 19 years an average annual growth of 4-4.5%. Sandinismo has proven to be, above all, a vision of nation, people, and society that incorporates the best aspirations of socialism within a capitalist economy.
