News From the Border: Nicaragua's Ortega returns to power

News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Nicaragua's Ortega returns to power

By TRACI CARL
Associated Press Writer
AP Photo/Moises Castillo

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega celebrated his return to power in Nicaragua with two of Washington's biggest critics - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales - who welcomed him as an ally in their campaign to curb U.S. influence in Latin America.

Chavez, speaking just hours after he was sworn in for another six years, said his "heart was overflowing with joy" to see Nicaragua once again in Ortega's hands, 17 years after voters threw the Sandanista leader out of office.

Appearing in Managua before thousands of cheering supporters, the three presidents called for the quick recovery of another Latin American leftist, Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro, and pledged to build a coalition of leftist leaders who would nationalize natural resources.

"With unity there is strength," Ortega said. "With unity comes victory."

This can't be good! -mm

Labels: Latin America, Socialism