Laviana (1941 - 1978), known as Commander Martin, was a English priest who fought alongside the Sandinistas in 1941 in Les nicaragüenses.Nació Roces, The Hueria Carrocera (San Martín del Rey Aurelio), Asturias, .. In 1969 he went to Nicaragua to work as a missionary in Tola.
There he worked with local farmers to take hard contact with the difficulties faced daily. Often visited the sick, to be called many times about the lack of medical facilities available to farmers. He strongly criticized the practice of kidnapping young women who were subsequently forced into prostitution, kidnappings that were protected by the army of the dictator Somoza. García
Laviana disagreed on the oppression of the rural poor and marginalized society in several poems that were published in 1979 as a collection of Songs of Love and War, which is the first book published by the Ministry of Culture of the Government sandinista.Como result of all their criticisms and complaints of corruption and injustice of the Somoza regime, was accused of being a communist sympathizer. In 1977 García Laviana received telephone threats and was followed by agents of Somoza to check their activities.
Activities were to help the Sandinistas acting as a courier, transporting people and, especially, educating farmers to be able to understand the situation in which they found themselves mismos.Este Spaniard priest was very influenced by the spirit of liberation theology that put in place preferential pastoral action for the poor. Finally ended up taking up arms to understand that a peaceful political change would not help alleviate the dire needs he saw every day in Nicaragua.
was disappointed with the Nicaraguan hierarchy, which ruled in his speech in favor of the poor and oppressed. Although he never spared violence, saw in it the only way for poor people of Nicaragua were freed from their opresión.Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's president, acknowledged the importance of participation in Garcia Laviana revolutionary struggle. Garcia's participation in the Nicaraguan Revolution Laviana encouraged Catholics to support the FSLN, giving the revolutionary movement moral legitimacy.
Many of the concerns Laviana Garcia became priorities for the Sandinistas when they took power. The revolutionary government established health care as a top priority, implemented agrarian reform initiatives that redistributed land to many individual farmers and cooperatives, and denounced the prostitución.Gaspar Laviana Garcia died December 11, 1978 in directing combat Benjamin Zeledon column.
Of him was said to be the first to enter combat and the last retirarse.Actualmente in Nicaragua there are hospitals, schools and libraries who remember his name, and in his native country where an important avenue of the city of Gijón is named .
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