Tomas Borge Quotes
Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.
Borge, Tomás, et al. "Playboy Interview: The Sandinistas." Interview by Claudia Dreifus. Playboy, vol. 30, no. 9, HMH Publishing, Sept. 1983, p. 192.
The president had visited Baltimore in August of 1828 and found the campaigning at a feverish pace:
Kennan was then the Charge of the America Embassy in Moscow.
Also used in his Message to Congress, May 25, 1967
Tomás Borge Martínez was a cofounder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua and was Interior Minister of Nicaragua during one of the administrations of Daniel Ortega. He was also a renowned statesman, writer, and politician. Tomás Borge also held the titles of "Vice-Secretary and President of the FSLN", member of the Nicaraguan Parliament and National Congress, and Ambassador to Peru. Considered a hardliner, he led the "prolonged people's war" tendency within the FSLN until his death.