Fidel is decorated with the Augusto César Sandino Order - Batalla de San Jacinto rank, the highest, by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at the opening ceremony of the Victoria de Julio Sugar Mill, Managua, Nicaragua.
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With Daniel Ortega, president de Nicaragua y Grenada Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, during the main event in the celebrations for the first anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution in the "19 de Julio" Plaza in Nicaragua.
July 18, 1980
• Message sent from the airplane to the Cuban pioneers on the occasion of the celebration of Children’s Day.
Managua
• Arrival at ‘Augusto Cesar Sandino’ international airport.
Masaya
• Visit to the ‘Santiago’ volcano, at Masaya’s National Park.
• Visit to the ruins of the old National Guard garrison. Fidel exchanged with local citizens.