Managua, January 16th.- The co-president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, sent a fraternal hug to Cuba, to Army General Raúl Castro, and to the president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, while denouncing the threats from the United States Government against the island.
Speaking last night at the 48th Graduation of Cadets of the "Leonel Rugama" University of Police Sciences of the National Police, Ortega highlighted the historical support of the international community at the United Nations against the blockade that Washington has maintained against Havana for more than six decades.
"In every vote, almost all countries voted for lifting the blockade. Who voted against it? The delegate of the United States, the delegate of Israel, two or three countries at most," he commented.
On the other hand, he conveyed Nicaragua's affection to the acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, and demanded the return of the ruler Nicolás Maduro and his wife, kidnapped by US military forces and taken to the northern nation on January 3rd.
"We join the call for the return of President Nicolás Maduro to his people. He was taken in a completely disproportionate action, without any arrest warrant, and we hope that the Bolivarian people will be respected," expressed the Sandinista leader. He mentioned the way in which US forces kidnapped Maduro and asked: Who gave them that power? What organization in the world endorses an act of terrorism like that?
He added that President Maduro wanted peace, "but what has become clear is that the United States is after the oil; the president has stated it very clearly and has defined the number of thousands of barrels of oil they will take from the Venezuelan people."
Ortega expressed his greetings to all the peoples around the world and within the United States itself who mobilized these days against these aggressions and in favor of peace.
"Because in the United States there is a people who do not share those crimes, do not share those atrocities, and are protesting there in the streets," he emphasized.
At another point in his speech at the event, which also included the presence of co-president Rosario Murillo, the Sandinista leader pointed out that there is an instinct of domination of the strong over the weak.
"It is a culture that is reproduced among peoples who are poor, who are weak, and I would say, it comes from the First World War; then came the Second World War, where Yankee imperialism debuted the atomic bomb," he recalled.
In that sense, he said that in Latin America there has been no program to develop atomic weaponry because that is a Latin American and Caribbean principle.
"And from that principle, the United Nations will have to be refounded, taking into account the circumstances currently being experienced in the world and in different regions of the planet," he emphasized.
He recalled the hopeful poem of Rubén Darío in which he spoke of the horrors experienced in the world at that time, where Darío ends by invoking God.
"The beast that has atomic weapons and respects no one will have to lower that conduct, they will have to change that conduct because they are terrorists."
"They are sowing terror in the world with that behavior, and what the world wants most is tranquility and peace," he highlighted.
According to Ortega, those who hold the power of armament do not have a humanistic nor Christian conscience, as they believe themselves to be gods and owners of the peoples and the earth.
