On the occasion of International Coffee Day, the current United States ambassador to Nicaragua, Kevin K Sullivanrecalled that the North American country is the main market for Nicaraguan coffee.
“Nothing like a great cup of coffee to start the day. Coffee is a source of pride for Nicaraguans and with good reason. My country is the main market for Nicaraguan coffee for a reason with more than US $200 million in exports in 2021», Said the diplomat through his Twitter account.
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Sullivan’s statements regarding the issue of exports come at a time when the Nicaraguan regime has railed at public events against the government of Joe Biden and currently rejected Hugo Rodríguez as ambassador proposed by the North American country. These diplomatic pushes by Ortega have been warned by some analysts as actions that could lead to restrictions by Washington on the benefits that Nicaragua has in the Free Trade Agreement known as Cafta-DR.
It should be noted that the United States has established itself over the years as Nicaragua’s main trading partner, all this despite the policy of verbal attacks maintained by the Ortega government since it came to power in 2007.
In recent months, the US embassy. in Nicaragua published on its Twitter account a comparison of the purchase of Nicaraguan coffee that places it in first place with 235 million dollars, followed by Belgium with 70 million, Germany 37 million. and Italy with 27 million.
“The United States is Nicaragua’s main coffee market — $235 million in coffee sales to the US in 2021 supported 45,000 small producers that employ 350,000 people,” the Biden embassy in Managua published in May.
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According to the diplomatic delegation, Nicaraguan coffee exports to the United States have grown substantially from 44 million dollars in 2005 to 235 million dollars in 2021.
Nicaragua has a trade surplus with the United States of 2,139 million dollars in 2020 or 17% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “Nicaragua sells more than it buys from the US, creating jobs and economic growth for Nicaragua,” the US embassy in Managua highlighted on its Twitter account in recent months.
Exports to the US could be in danger
After the violent verbal attacks by the Nicaraguan dictator, Daniel Ortega, the former ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Arturo McFields affirmed that the Nicaraguan president’s position towards the Joe Biden government “is serious.”
The previous statement was supported by pointing out that “at the end of the day, the one who suffers with this radicalization of the dictatorship is the Nicaraguan people, because the US is the destination of almost 60 percent of Nicaragua’s exports.
He explained that “US companies based in the country generate unprecedented employment, while alliances with China and Russia —of which the Nicaraguan dictatorship boasts so much— They don’t even reach 8 percent.”
“The country is sinking into isolation, the people are suffering from unemployment and the economy is going to languish because of a dictator gone mad,” McFields said.
Until now, Daniel Ortega continues with his “non-intervention” speech and increasingly attacks the United States and offends its officials, solely for demanding that his dictatorship cease the repression against Nicaraguans.
