Tomás Borge

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Tomás Borge Martínez

Tomás Borge Martínez (born August 13, 1930 in Matagalpa , † April 30, 2012 in Managua ) was a Nicaraguan politician and writer . He was Interior Minister under the government of Daniel Ortega and the last living co-founder of the Sandinista Party (FSLN).

Political career

From 1956 to 1959 Borge was imprisoned because he is said to have been an accessory to a planned assassination attempt on the then President Anastasio Somoza García . During this time he was also held and tortured in El Hormiguero Prison . In 1959 he managed to flee to Costa Rica via Honduras and El Salvador . After the 1979 revolution , Borge became Minister of the Interior. In a lawsuit, he was asked how he would punish his torturers. He is said to have replied: "My punishment is to be forgiven."

During his tenure as Minister of the Interior, he was also responsible for the Nicaraguan secret service , the Directorio General para la Seguridad del Estado (DGSE), which was headed by Reinaldo Gregorio Lenín Cerna Juárez . Therefore, since 1980, Borge had close ties to the Ministry for State Security of the GDR .

Borge published several books on the Nicaraguan Revolution and Sandinism. He later ran a hotel in Managua and was a member of the Nicaraguan parliament. At the beginning of 2007 he was appointed Nicaraguan ambassador to Peru by the new Sandinista government under Daniel Ortega .

Borge died on April 30, 2012 in Managua of a lung disease . He may have had cancer .

Artistic response

The quote My revenge is to be forgiven was processed by the songwriter Gerhard Schöne in the song Meine Rache , which was released on the LP You just haven't tried it yet , which was released in 1988 .

Publications (selection)

  • The revolution fights against the theology of death. Speeches by a leading Sandinista on the task of Christians in the new Nicaragua. Edition liberación, Münster 1984, ISBN 3-923792-15-8 .
  • Daybreak against death. To war and peace in Nicaragua. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 1988, ISBN 3-87294-255-7 .
  • With restless patience. From the Nicaraguan Spanish by Lutz Kliche. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 1990, ISBN 3-87294-409-6 . (Autobiography)

literature

  • Meeting with the Nicaraguan Interior Minister. Hermann Axen received Tomás Borge / High honors. In: New Germany . June 26, 1987, p. 2. (online version)
  • Lenin Cernas State Security Service and its communist teachers. In: Hans Lindemann: Moscow's Dream: Nicaragua. Stuttgart / Bonn 1986, pp. 83-97.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ex-Sandinista leader Tomas Borge has died. APA In: derstandard.at . May 1, 2012.
  2. ^ Text from Meine Rache, accessed on June 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Borge, Tomás
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borge Martínez, Tomás (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nicaraguan politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Matagalpa
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2012
Place of death Managua