Tag Archives: Daniel Ortega

In Noam Chomsky’s words, Nicaragua poses a threat of a good example to the US empire. Since Ortega’s return election victory in 2006, Nicaragua had achieved the following, according to NSCAG, despite being the second poorest country in the hemisphere:Second highest economic growth rates and most stable economy in Central America. Only country in the region producing 90% of the food it consumes. Poverty and extreme poverty halved; country with the greatest reduction of extreme poverty....

Ortega says that the country has experienced extreme violence over the past several months at the hands of the “extreme right” of Nicaragua and U.S. elected officials who have always opposed the Sandinista revolution since it emerged in the 1980s. The president went on to say that the violence is the fruit of U.S. officials who are working with poor paramilitaries within the country who want to knock down the Sandinistas. Popular ResistanceNicaragua’s Daniel Ortega to Telesur: ‘The Coup...