THE Simon Bolivar Brigade was launched by the comrades ot the Colombia to send militants to fight with the FSLN in Nicaragua. The intiative was opposed by the FSLN and the solidarity committee in Colombia, and was taken without consulting the leadership of the Fourth International.
It was not opposed in principle, but because the most effective form of support was political solidarity. in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Mexico, large campaigns were built, International militants in their leadership.
These campaigns Nicaraguan revolution, and were undoubtedly a factor in the Organisation of American States refusing to support a US proposal for a peace keeping' force to take over from Somoza's National Guard.
The Simon Bolivar Brigade as such never fought in Nicaragua, militants saw action in regular units FSLN. The Brigade as Nicaragua after the fall of Managua.
The Brigade masqueraded as a part of the FSLN, and. endeavoured to leadership on workers involved in organising unions in various factories, throuch auluntaral methods. It even introduced the the Sandinista Simon Bolivar Brigade!
This activity Nicaragua. In Bluefields, a town on the east coast largely cut off from the rest of the country where there were few FSLN cadres, the brigade presented itself as the FSLN leadership of the city and surroundine area. obliged to send in an armed unit into Bluefields d to establish its authority.
Faced with this leadership publicly called for a meeting with the Simon Bolivar Brigade. The Brigade responded Bolshevik Faction demonstrations and involving Fourth helped to channel the although some of its entered impose its own in some cases brigade. allE outrageous Workers Federation and the political received broad notoriety in The FSLN condemn, situation, the FSLN ally intention