The discourse of peace of the Sandinista National Liberation Front

Abstract

Political parties are born to fight for power in a particular country under one or another doctrine that determines the form of this power. Democracies and governments that seek welfare of all the inhabitants of a country, without exception, are new approaches in a new society that foster peaceful and harmonious coexistence for everybody. This essay interprets the discourse of peace of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). This paper has been structured in three parts: the first part, reviews concepts of peace and political discourse; the second part describes the political and socio-economic context in which the FSLN was born; the third part talks about the need for peace expressed by the Nicaraguan people, and the loss and recovery of power by the FSLN in recent decades as well as the relationship between failure and triumph of this discourse of peace.