By Jorge Capelán, journalist

A further piece of information contradicts the big lie of the promoters of the defeated “soft coup” of 2018 presented inside and outside Nicaragua as a “student insurrection” against the Sandinista government. On Monday, Vice President Rosario Murillo announced that the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) registered the largest pre-registration in history, with more than 18,000 applicants for 76 courses offered, the most in demand being medicine, public accounting, finances, and English.

Of the more than 18,000 applicants to this public university, 76.23 percent come from public schools and 60 percent are young women.

If “students” have been “massacred” and “persecuted” by the “regime,” how can the university lecture halls be full of them? If, as the coup propaganda says, “students” migrated “en masse” abroad, how can the lecture halls not only be full but actually overflowing with them? The public universities were one of the terrorists’ favorite targets during the defeated coup attempt against the people of Nicaragua between April and July 2018.       Today they are full of students.

If, as the coup plotters say, the country is living in the throes of a hopeless and bottomless crisis, how can young people bet massively on education for their future instead of looking merely for a way to survive?

The truth is that today Nicaragua is undergoing an educational explosion, with almost 1.8 million people studying, among them hundreds of thousands of young people studying for no cost at one of the 60 technical careers available in 45 government technology training centers nationwide.

The versions of events expounded by the coup leaders is nothing more than a monumental lie. It is astonishing that there are still people outside the country who believe in it. Inside Nicaragua everyone saw through the lie long ago.

Source: Tortilla con Sal, on January 30, 2020