If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.

They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

I believe that absolute objectivity does not exist. American journalists, although they try to be objective, always lean one way or another. They repeat and repeat a particular type of information, which ultimately creates a distorted image of reality. Any small or insignificant incident that happens in Nicaragua is reported as a sensational act.

Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.