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- Subject: NICARAGUA: EX-PRESIDENT SAYS COUNTRY IS LOSING ITS SOVEREIGNTY
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- ** Topic: IPS: Ortega Accuses US **
- ** Written 1:15 am Sep 4, 1992 by josefina in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
- From: Josefina Velasquez <josefina>
- Subject: IPS: Ortega Accuses US
-
- /* Written 12:12 am Sep 4, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.englibrary */
- Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved. Permission to re-
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- Reference: North America
- Title: NICARAGUA: EX-PRESIDENT SAYS COUNTRY IS LOSING ITS SOVEREIGNTY
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- managua, sep 1 (ips) -- nicaragua is about to lose its
- sovereignty for a paltry 100 million dollars by bowing to
- pressure from the u.s. government, former nicaraguan president
- daniel ortega said tuesday.
-
- ortega accused the u.s. government of aiming to control
- nicaragua's politics and its economy in exchange for economic aid
- which washington promised the government of president violetta
- chamorro.
-
- the united states blocked a 104-million dollar aid package in
- may in response to demands by a conservative republican lobby led
- by senator jesse helms. among other things, the united states
- wants chamorro to remove the sandinistas from top governmental
- and public service positions.
-
- washington announced tuesday that it would send a mission to
- nicaragua to investigate charges made by the helms lobby that the
- chamorro government was controlled by ''terrorists,'' ''thieves
- and murderers.''
-
- ortega, warned that the internal political crisis would be
- aggravated if chamorro submitted to the u.s. demands. he
- announced that the sandinistas were establishing ''a new line of
- struggle'' in defence of nicaragua's sovereignty.
-
- ''failure to be more belligerent in the face of this policy is
- tantamount to being an accomplice to submission,'' said ortega ,
- who headed the sandinista national liberation front (fsln)
- government, from 1979, when the sandinistas toppled dictator
- anastasio somoza, to 1990, when chamorro took power.
-
- the sandinista leader denied u.s. claims that the fsln wields
- heavy political clout in nicaragua, and said he was opposed to an
- economic adjustment plan recommended by the international
- monetary fund (imf) which the government has been implementing
- since march 1991.
-
- ortega also said the chamorro government had ''committed the
- error of withdrawing the claim (in the international court of
- justice -icj) against the united states for 17 billion dollars.''
-
- nicaragua won a suit against the united states in the icj in
- 1986, when the u.n. institution found washington guilty of mining
- the central american country's ports.
-
- the icj also upheld a nicaraguan claim against the united
- states for financing a war by an irregular army against the
- sandinista government, which caused nicaragua to suffer damages
- totalling 17 billion dollars. (more)
- ----
-
-
- however, the united states refused to accept the court's
- jurisdiction on the issue and its verdict and chamorro's
- government withdrew the claim shortly after taking office.
-
- ortega said that ''a submissive policy by the nicaraguan
- government will not change u.s. economic policy on central
- america.''
-
- he said the united states was now withdrawing from the
- sub-region and that costa rica, guatemala and honduras were now
- receiving less u.s. aid than during the 1980s.
-
- ''the united states gives money for war, but not for
- reconstruction and central america no longer interests it,''
- ortega argued.
-
- announcing that the fsln was declaring war on submission,
- ortega described the present situation as ''a retrocession in
- humanity's struggle for friendly but independent relations.''
-
- he added that he considered the ''intention of the united
- states to change our police and the magistrates of the supreme
- court of justice'' a human rights violation, stressing that the
- fsln would defend the retention of police chief rene vivas in his
- post.
-
- vivas, a former guerrilla commader, is one of the sandinista
- officials the united states wants chamorro to dismiss.
- (end/ips/trd/so/nnz-in/kb/92)
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