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Commandante Dora: Meeting and Guarding

By VVAW

Nicaragua's highest ranking women, Commandante Dora Maria Tellez, minister and health, spoke in Chicago on September 29th and 30th at events sponsored by Central American Medical Aid and co-sponsored by VVAW, CCSNP and others.

VVAW members served as a security escort during her two days here.

Commandante Dos spoke on the current situation in Nicaragua with special emphasis on the changes in health care and on the changing role of women. "Women participated in our revolution," she said. "Not in the kitchens but as combatants. In the political leadership. This gives us a very different experience."

In an emotional plea she asked for "direct dialogue between the U.S. administration and Nicaragua" and stressed the importance of direct people-to-people dialogue between the people of North America and the people of Nicaragua.