Daniel Ortega has broken 100 days of caution and silence before Donald Trump: on the eve of May 1, during the act of the International Worker Day in Public Square, the Sandinista leader has rant against the Republican President, hours after the State Department published a report – authol -authol, regarding the hundred days of management of the magnate – that places the regime “co -presidential” between its “co -presidential fight. ” If before that day in Managua there was a cooperating policy, receiving in silence planes loaded with deportees, or abandoned the South African case before the International Court of Justice that accuses Israel of genocide to align with Washington, this week the turn has been total.
Ortega charged Trump for more than half an hour, from antimigration policy, tariff war, expansionist desires and the authoritarian gestures of the Republican. “They are crimes already horrendous; horrendous how to have in prison, kidnapped there, a two -year -old girl and the poor mother attacked,” said the Sandinista president, referring to a woman deported to Venezuela and lost her daughter’s trail in Miami.
“Adversary to fight”
The Trump administration – as part of its Autocelebrations for the first 100 days of management – said that Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, “has implemented a decided foreign policy and focused on the principle of America first”, and lists a series of “achievements”, among which Nicaragua appears in section five of the report, entitled “Combating our adversaries.” “Make the Ortega-Murillo authoritarian dynasty give accounts: Visa restrictions imposed more than 250 officials of the Nicaraguan regime to make them responsible for depriving the Nicaraguan people of their fundamental freedoms and forcing many to exile,” the State Department specifies.
That mention of the report has irritated the Ortega-Murillo, who had maintained a total reserve before their movements. The dictatorial couple was expectant, waiting for lighter signals to rearrange in geopolitical chess – and in an extreme chaotic – caused by the US president, who since his first weeks has given signs of affinity with the Russia of Vladimir Putin and has distanced himself from historical allies of the United States, such as Europe. In tune, somehow, with Orteguista foreign policy aligned with Moscow.
However, on the eve of May 1, Ortega not only became proportional again, but also criticized Trump’s deportations, especially the sending of migrants to El Salvador de Nayib Bukele. He also referred to Nicaraguans returned, to whom Washington has forced to stop in the Guantanamo prison, in Cuba, and of whom the “co -president” said that this April 30 came more to the Augusto C. Sandino airport, without specifying more details. He also lashed out at the tariff war in which Nicaragua was imposed 18% of tribute.
“Another bomb has fallen over the world and comes from the president of the United States, which has launched a package of economic measures (tariffs) without consulting with any country,” Ortega said for the first time about Trump’s second presidency. At the same time, he lined up totally with China and got rid of praise towards Xi Jinping.
“He simply decided and there is: threatening the world economy and also threatening the US economy. Already the American people themselves begin to rebel. Why? Because they feel the impact of the increase in life. And, on the other hand, the criminal attitude of the US government to be chasing, imprisoning all those who have been working there for years,” in reference to migrants. “They have been shedding sweat and blood so that this country had more wealth,” he added about deportations.
“Power is just him”
Ortega – who has had thousands of political prisoners tortured in the prisons of Nicaragua, without the slightest respect for the Nelson Mandela rules – criticized Trump for not respecting the due process of deported persons. “Without any law, (Trump is) passing against the decisions of the judicial powers of the United States. That is, he is acting as in the United States, with his arrival to the Government, all the powers disappeared and the power is only him. And he decides what is done and what is not done,” Ortega said, as if he described his despotic way of governing.
Manuel Orozco, an inter-American dialogue researcher, tells El País that, again, the political calculation of the Ortega-Murillo fell short. “They went to a moralistic expression, agreed in the international criticism of President Trump, assuming that they are part of that international protest. However, these rulers lack political touch. By having been put at the site of the undesirable, as enemies of humanity, there is a list of approach to them. A waiting row that is close to the action,” Orozco analyzes.
Ortega and Murillo presided over the act in Managua surrounded by police and military, in the hands of their legion of hooded paramilitaries. In a world in descent to fascism, those thousands of black hoods, surrounded by rifles in the public square, resulted in a reliable image of that involution that in Nicaragua began in 2018 with the commission of crimes against humanity …. long before Trump’s return to power, and whose political and cultural movement magic has bullow the ultra -right forces around the planet. In summary and keeping distances, on the eve of May 1, Ortega’s criticisms about Trump were heated. It was like listening to a self -portrait of the Sandinista leader.
