Managua, Jul 19 (Prensa Latina) The victory by the people led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and the total defeat of Somoza's dictatorship, a day like today in 1979 meant a sort of second independence, Deputy Foreign Minister Orlando Gomez asserted.

In an interview with the news agency Prensa Latina, the deputy Foreign minister considered that if the aforementioned date was not the most important, it was one of them in the long history of this Central American country.

After the independence in 1821, the victory achieved by the Sandinista Revolution means a sort of second independence, said Gomez, referring to decades of oppression, violation of rights and suffering, due to the aggressiveness of the tyranny.

He asserted that the victory allowed Nicaragua, starting from that moment on, to go through contemporary history with better possibilities for economic development, people's rights and the democratic system that remains today.

About the most significant changes boosted by the Revolution, he highlighted the agricultural reform, which had an important positive impact, because it generated a process to distribute lands and shape up farming cooperatives, according to him.

If we have now a kind of food self-sufficiency is because there was a process before that could be the key in the analysis of everything that was done, he said.

He also mentioned other social changes fostered by the Revolution, as the basic-literacy teaching campaign and access to free education and public health.

All those elements shape up a group of rights to the Nicaraguan people that were unthinkable in the decades of Somoza's dictatorship, he said.

The send stage of the Revolution has entailed the restoration of rights, because the neoliberal governments established after 1980 and up to 2006, had the purpose of undoing all the progress achieved in the '80s, he stated.

The social programs fostered by the Revolution are really important, sad Gomez, who referred to the progress not only in areas as health and education, but also to other elements as peace, stability and security that Nicaragua enjoys today.