“Empire” and “blockade” were two of the most heard words this Friday at the opening of the G-77 Summit, which is based in Havana. Two words that were especially reiterated in the speech of the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, which in the Cuban capital was more than clear: “Don’t mess with my country, don’t insist on the issue of human rights violations.”
“We cannot go around looking for the speck in our neighbor’s eye, because we all have problems, we all have difficulties in our countries. We, on principle We do not get involved in the situations that arise in sister nations“, declared Ortega during a slow and monotonous speech at the Havana Convention Palace, although with a lot of political background.
“Today marks 202 years of the independence of Central America and not even eight years had passed when the Yankee imperialists were invading Nicaragua,” recalled the Nicaraguan president, head of one of the three dictatorships in Latin America, along with those of Cuba and Venezuela.
“We are three countries that are targets of the North American rulers that have been happening and of the governments of the European Union: Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. “They even discuss whether or not President Nicolás Maduro will be able to attend such a meeting.”
Ortega insisted that they not interfere in his affairs and warned Washington and Brussels: “We react only when they are attitudes that we have known only from the North American rulers and the European Community.”