The President of Nicaragua welcomes Venezuela’s solidarity.
Nicaragua’s president, Daniel Ortega, highlighted Venezuela’s historic solidarity behavior with different Latin American nations, especially in difficult times in the region.
In an official speech, in which he received the Torch of the Central American Union, the Nicaraguan president recalled that Venezuela’s behavior with the brother countries has been to shake hands with us, stressing that the former president, Hugo Chavez, collaborated with Nicaragua sending electric generators that helped to end the blackouts left by previous governments.
«Never has an alliance been established with Venezuela to attack or declare war on anyone, we declare peace and because we are at peace we carry out this act in tribute to those who fought for independence,» Ortega said.
Chavez looked at the poorest people in the region, went to Central America, the Caribbean to integrate those peoples into the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America, to help those peoples get out of poverty and misery, said the Sandinista leader.
Likewise, Ortega rejected the campaigns of “confrontation and violence” which, he emphasized, are disseminated through social networks. Instead, he said that Nicaragua responds with peace and love, stressing its commitment to stability and harmony in the face of messages of war and death.
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«We have a duty to continue fighting for peace, no matter how much they provoke us, no matter how much they threaten us, no matter how much they insult us, we are not going to step back, we will continue to bring benefits to the people and that is essential for that peace,» said the Latin American president.
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“This is the stage that we are living now, not only in Central America, but throughout Latin America, where the imperialists of the Earth want to divide us and where peoples beyond governments, the peoples do love the peoples,» stressed the head of state.
