Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega addresses the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
Posted on 09/25/2007 1:35:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accused the U.S. of imposing a worldwide dictatorship and defended the right of Iran and North Korea to pursue nuclear technology in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly meeting.
Ortega also angrily denounced President Bush for criticizing Cuban leader Fidel Castro during his speech earlier in the day.
Ortega, who took office in January, said little had changed since he last addressed the world body as the Marxist leader of Nicaragua's Sandinista-run government two decades ago.
"The presidents of the U.S. change. And they may come to office with the greatest of intentions and they may feel that they are doing good for humanity, but they fail to understand that they are no more than instruments of one more empire in a long list of empires that have been imposed on our planet," Ortega said, waving his arms.
Ortega had started off addressing the central theme of this year's General Assembly meeting — climate change — but he quickly launched into a tirade against global capitalism, meandering from his notes and speaking well beyond his allotted 15 minutes.
The world is under "the most impressive, huge dictatorship that has existed — the empire of North America," he said. An "imperialist minority is imposing global capitalism to impoverish us all and impose apartheid against Latin American immigrants and against African immigrants."
He said the United States, as the only country to have used nuclear bombs in a war, was in no position to question the right of Iran and North Korea to pursue nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
"And even if they want nuclear power for purposes that are not peaceful, with what right does (the U.S.) question it?" Ortega added.
His speech recalled last year's U.N. speech by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who caused a storm by calling Bush the "devil." Chavez is not attending this year.
Ortega did not directly insult Bush. But he came to the ailing Castro's defense moments after Bush declared that "in Cuba, the long rule of a cruel dictatorship is nearing its end." Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque walked out of the assembly in protest.
"And we heard from the president of the United States this morning a total lack of respect when he spoke of Cuba," Ortega said. "Fidel Castro has shown great solidarity with humanity."
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega addresses the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
Ortega, who took office in January, said little had changed since he last addressed the world body as the Marxist leader of Nicaragua’s Sandinista-run government two decades ago.
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Change comes from within, Daniel. See you’re still the same whiney little twirp you were back then.
Another tin pot jackass!....stick your finger where the sun don’t shine!
Another tin pot jackass!....stick your finger where the sun don’t shine!
I’m am so sick of little weenie dictators screaming their rhetoric at us like a pack of chihuahuas who haven’t been walked ... sheesh.....
"One bottle of Rogaine. That's all I ask"
Some recent examples of how evil we are in Nicaragua:
http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/photoGallery.php?gallery=Hurricane%20Felix%20relief%20efforts
It absolutely drives me crazy that these bastards can come on our soil and deride us. The U.N. needs to be somewhere else.
It’s like having cockroaches lecture you on hygiene.
Well, there is one fewer superpower. It just happens that that was the one that fed you, walked you and occasionally pinched you so you would bark at the neighbors.
Just one of our Marines should have been given the green light back in the 80s to put this a-wipe commie in his crosshairs and squeeze off 150 grains of hot searing lead. End of story....game, set and match.
Sorry about the double-tap.
The best thing that could happen to the Earth would be for a meteor to slam into the UN building this afternoon.
Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder what he is going to do to the American driven capitalistic developments popping up in his country such as the Rancho Santana gated community? My friend built a home there several years ago. The poor people need that influx of money and jobs that these developments are creating. What a moron!
Put'em on a polar ice cap!
Yeah he’s working out great. His starving people run off to Costa Rica to build houses for Americans.
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