International Attendance at Sandino Day Ceremonies – February 28, 1984
FOIA-1988-00051
I have corrected the spelling, names, and titles that were distorted by the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) process. This version reflects the historically accurate names of the individuals and organizations mentioned in the 1984 telegram.
Text of Telegram 84Managu01083
Date: February 28, 1984
From: American Embassy Managua
To: Secretary of State, Washington D.C.
Subject: International Attendance at Sandino Day Ceremonies
The following is a list of reported international visitors who attended the February 21 Sandino Day commemoration:
- Afghanistan: Abdul Samad, representing the government.
- Angola: Henrique de Carvalho Santos, member of the Politburo of the MPLA; Mawete João Batista, Angolan Ambassador to Cuba.
- Argentina: Bernardo Sola, Secretary of Education; Elsa Kelly, Secretary of Foreign Relations; Miguel Monserrat and Diego May Zubiría, Intransigent Party; Claudio Lozano, representing Nobel Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
- Bulgaria: Stanish Bonev, Deputy Prime Minister and member of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
- Colombia: Laura Ochoa, Vice-Foreign Minister; Apolinar Díaz Callejas, President of Colombia Committee for Peace.
- Costa Rica: José Figueres Ferrer, Ex-President of Costa Rica and President of the National Liberation Party; José Rafael Cordero, Ex-Ambassador to Nicaragua; Hugo Díaz, President of Nicaragua-Costa Rica Solidarity Committee.
- Cuba: Juan Almeida Bosque, member of the Politburo of the Cuban Communist Party; Manuel Piñeiro, head of the Americas Department of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party; Ramiro Abreu, Director of Central American Affairs, the Americas Department; Ricardo Alarcón, Vice Foreign Minister.
- Czechoslovakia: Ladislav Adamec, Vice President of Czechoslovakia.
- Dominican Republic: José Francisco Peña Gómez, Mayor of Santo Domingo and Vice President of Socialist International for Latin America; Juan Bosch, Ex-President; Percio Maldonado, Dominican Deputy.
- Ecuador: Alejandro Carrión, Deputy representing presidential candidate Rodrigo Borja, Democratic Left Party of Ecuador.
- El Salvador: Guillermo Ungo, representing the FMLN-FDR.
- Finland: Lauri Kangas, Social Democratic Party of Finland; Tutta Katariina Tallgren and Ritva Killevi Cortez, Finland Communist Party.
- France: Antoine Blanca, Ambassador at Large for Latin America; Gisèle Moreau, French Deputy; Nicolle Bourdillat, French Socialist Party.
- East Germany: Bruno Kiesler, member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party.
- West Germany: Wolfgang Weege and Christa Randzio-Plath, German Social Democratic Party; Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski representing Willy Brandt, President of Socialist International.
- Ghana: Major General Arnold Quainoo, Comandante of the Ghanaian Armed Forces.
- Honduras: Roberto Perdomo Paredes, Ex-Ambassador to Nicaragua; Gautama Fonseca, writer; Miguel Facussé, businessman.
- Hungary: Antal Apró, member Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party; János Tóth, Office of Foreign Relations.
- Iran: Javad Mansouri, Vice-Foreign Minister.
- Jamaica: Donald Buchanan, Sub-Secretary of the People’s National Party of Jamaica; Horace Dalley, PNP.
- North Korea: Yong Sun-hui, Labor Party.
- Libya: Mohammad al-Hijazi, Congressional Secretary.
- Mexico: Héctor Hernández and Adolfo Lugo Verduzco, representing Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid; Víctor Manuel Torres, Deputy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI); Ricardo Govela and Raúl López, PST; Miguel Velasco and Dolores Posadas Aguilar, PSUM; Monsignor Sergio Méndez Arceo, Ex-Bishop of Cuernavaca; Thelma Nava, writer.
- Peru: Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, Mayor of Lima; Dagoberto Laínez, President of the Chamber of Deputies; Senator Jorge del Prado; Edgardo de Habich, President of the Peru-Nicaragua Friendship House.
- Poland: Jerzy Dąbrowski, member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party.
- Panama: José Blandón, head of Panama delegation; Major Daniel Delgado and Major Aristides Valdomero, Panama National Guard; José María Cabrera Jované, Vice-Foreign Minister.
- Portugal: Aurélio Santos and Teresa Ventura, members of the Portuguese Communist Party.
- Puerto Rico: Rubén Berríos, Puerto Rican Director of Socialist International.
- Spain: Enrique Curiel, Vice-Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain; Antonio Gutiérrez and Simón Sánchez Montero, members of the Communist Party of Spain; Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez and Elena Flores, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE).
- Suriname: Harvey Naarendorp, Ex-Foreign Minister; Laurence E. Neede, Military Advisor; Jan B. Lachman, Foreign Ministry official.
- Syria: Mohamed Najdi al-Jazzar, diplomat.
- United Kingdom: Lord Kennet and Lord Avebury, House of Lords; Julie Christie, actress.
- Soviet Union: Alexei Feodorovich Rumyantsev, member Central Control Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Konstantin Kurin and Vladimir Kazimirov, “officers.”
- Uruguay: José Cardozo, President of the Socialist Party of Uruguay.
- Venezuela: Carlos Andrés Pérez, Ex-President of Venezuela and Vice-President of Socialist International; Manuel Pérez Guerrero, State Minister for Economic Affairs; Juan José Monsant, Secretary of International Relations of the Social Christian Party (COPEI) of Venezuela.
- Yemen: Ahmed Mafta Abudlarab and Salah Hassan Alzubidi.
- Yugoslavia: Veljko Milatović, member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.
Other Delegations: Dr. Enrique Martín del Campo, personal representative of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States; Luigi Boselli, representing the European Economic Community; Mahfud Ali Baiba, Prime Minister of the Saharan Democratic Arab Republic (Polisario).
Signed: Quainton
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Document Metadata
Document Type: Diplomatic Telegram
Telegram Number: 84MANAGU01083
Reference Codes: ADP644 / ADP798
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Source and Destination * From: AMEMBASSY MANAGUA (Nicaragua)
To: SECSTATE WASHDC (Secretary of State, Washington D.C.)
Information Copies: * CONTADORA COLLECTIVE
USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
USCINCSO QUARRY HTS PN
Temporal Data * Date Sent: February 28, 1984
Time Sent: 19:40Z (Universal Time)
Date Received: February 29, 1984 (292026Z)
Subject and Content Markers * Subject: INTERNATIONAL ATTENDANCE AT SANDINO DAY CEREMONIES
Executive Order: 12356: N/A
TAGS: * PREL: External Political Relations
PINR: Political Intelligence
OVIP: Office of the Vice President / Visits of VIPs
ADRC: Administrative Records
NU: Nicaragua
Administrative Details * Pages: 05
Sections: 01 of 02 and 02 of 02
Signatory: QUAINTON (Ambassador Anthony Quainton)
Action Office: ARA-00 (Bureau of Inter-American Affairs)
Information Offices: INR-10 (Intelligence and Research), SS-00 (Executive Secretariat), CIAE-00 (CIA), DODE-00 (Defense), NSAE-00 (NSA), HA-08 (Human Rights), PM-09 (Politico-Military Affairs), PA-02 (Public Affairs), OMB-01, USIE-00 (USIA).