Nicaragua's Ortega says he won't meet with Bush in solidarity with Bolivia

[Nambe]

Source: MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says he will reject an invitation to meet with President Bush out of "solidarity" with Bolivia in its diplomatic spat with Washington.

Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. ambassador this week after accusing him of conspiring against his government. Washington rejected the accusations and expelled Bolivia's ambassador to the U.S. the following day. ...

... Ortega, whose first administration fought U.S.- backed Contra rebels in the 1980s, has often been strident in criticizing Washington. He did not say why he had been invited to the White House.

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-nicaragua-us,0,7576228.story

[Judi Lynn]

1. Apparently Bush saw him as a weak link in Central America for some reason and thought he could pick

him off, separate him from the other leftist leaders, divide and conquer, as in the good old days. He probably had a scheme to offer him some enormous aid package, always attractive to beaten down countries the U.S. has crushed previously, and slaughtered the citizens. Countries needing a leg up have been easy to manipulate.

Very cool the guy decided to distance himself from this trap.

Thanks for the information, Nambe. Very interesting.

[Gillian]

2. Papa bush tried to do a Sadam on Ortega.

Maybe dubya wanted to do lunch with Ortega and oliver north.

[ensho]

3. thank you Ortega

if anybody knows how criminal the neo cons are its Ortega

[High Plains]

4. Good for Ortega. Evo Morales deserves the support of progressives.

I've seen some reflexive anti-leftist Morales-bashing on some DU threads lately. While some people may have beefs with Hugo Chavez, Morales is not Chavez, although they are allies. Morales is the popular, democratically-elected indigenous leader of Bolivia, and he's facing off against traditional conservative elites (and their allies in the US embassy) in the eastern provinces over who controls the national patrimony. Viva Evo!

[Billy Burnett]

7. This the reason for reflexive anti-leftist Morales-bashing on some DU threads lately?

:shrug:

[High Plains]

10. That's the leadership of a good hunk of Latin America right there.

And there are more left-leaning leaders not pictured: Correa in Ecuador, Kirchner de Fernandez in Argentina, Zelaya in Honduras, Bachelet in Chile, Ortega in Nicaragua...

There is a leftist surge going on down south; I guess it's hard for American reactionaries to handle it.

[AlphaCentauri]

16. And very soon El Salvador will be in that picture

[ronnie624]

11. If that's the reason,

it illustrates how deeply stupid some people can be.

[Vidar]

5. W continues to unite the world--against us. Viva Ortega!! Viva Morales!!

[happydreams]

13. Bush sure is a catalyst for change....

:crazy:

[bvar22]

6. Bloodless Social Revolution in South America is spreading North!

The BEST News NOT reported by the Corporate Owned US Media are the reforms sweeping across the entire South American continent, and now moving into Central America as Right Wing Oligarchies are VOTED OUT!

The WORST mistake of the US government (Republicans AND Democrats) is their OPPOSITION to these emerging TRUE Democracies. Our government (ruling Corporate Elites) are alienating massive new markets and potential allies, and driving them into the arms of China and Russia!..STUPID.

As a Nation, we should be celebrating these new populist democracies and assisting them in every way we can.

The Social Reforms in South America gives me hope for the planet.

Right Wing elements in Mexico managed to steal the last election.
They will LOSE the next one!



VIVA Democracy!
I hope it spreads to the US!

[bitchkitty]

9. My husband always said that eventually

Mexico would be a socialist country. That was 15 years ago - maybe he'll live to see it! One can hope...

[Judi Lynn]

12. They came so close to it in the last election. You remember that vast sea of people

who planted themselves in the center of Mexico City in protest of a crooked election and who didn't budge for weeks believed the "leftist" Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won, too! They weren't afraid to tell the world they believed justice had been derailed.







Remember the long, long tent in the center of town? Way to go, protesters.

[bitchkitty]

15. I wish the citizens of this country would do that.

They should have done it twice already.

[happydreams]

14. A good book on this: "Inevitable Revolutions" by Lafeber. ....

It was years after I read it that I heard a recording of Kennedy's speech where he says those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. Lafeber never envisioned a bumbling cretin like Bush being the catalyst for peaceful revolution.

[AlphaCentauri]

17. US politicians are prostituting Democracy

[bitchkitty]

8. Thank you Nambe.

And thank you President Ortega!

Solidarity - the left needs more of it. If we could do that here, we could have our own revolution.