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Ortega for ALBA-Solidarity Account

NICARAGUA, June 15, 2009. Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, announced the creation of a new ALBA-Solidarity Account in answer to the United States government withdrawing aid for his government for the Millennium Challenge Account.

ALBA is a regional integration agreement called the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America.

Today, he said, the United States cannot do what it wants in the world and has lost moral authority although it has material strength.

He called on the US president to understand that Nicaraguans are a people with infinite dignity that only want fair and respectful relations.

Addressing thousands of compatriots who shouted Daniel, the people respect you, the president described the history of aggressions of the northern neighbors since the time of filibuster William Walker to the war of aggression imposed during the 1980s.

He also referred to the attacks against Sandinista leaders and threats against the country when the person in power was not of Washington's liking.

He warned that they are interfering in our internal policy and explained that we are gathering proof of the actions of its officials and, at the right time, will take whatever action se must in these cases.

The Nicaraguan president denied fraud in the municipal elections of November 2008 and criticized local politicians who traveled to Washington requesting a suspension of the Millennium Challenge Account whose funds were not administered by the government but by the US officials themselves.

For the United States and its allies it is not easy to swallow the results of a popular victory and they want to convert the result into an instrument to destabilize the country, he indicated.

Applauded by thousands of compatriots who unfurled Nicaraguan, Venezuelan and Frente Sandinista flags, Ortega pointed out that Washington does not give charity or bear gifts.

This is, he explained, repayment of a historical debt it has with Nicaragua.

He recalled the decision of the International Court of Justice in July of 1986 decreeing that the United States should compensate Managua for damages during the war of aggression.

We are going to demand they honor that decision whose fulfillment will grant the country about 17 billion dollars, he added.
(Cubaminrex – PL)

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