The dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has been in Venezuela since the early hours of this Wednesday, April 24, to participate in the XXIII Summit of the so-called Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA- TCP).
Venezuela is one of the few countries to which Ortega can travel without facing protests of repudiation by the local population and Nicaraguan exiles who are in many countries around the world.
According to media outlets at the service of the dictatorship’s propaganda, citing Venezuelan allied media, Ortega arrived in Caracas in the early hours of the night, where he was received by the chancellor of the dictatorship of that South American country, Yván Gil, and the Secretary ALBA-TCP Executive, Jorge Arreaza. His counterpart, the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, did not go to the Caracas airport to receive his Nicaraguan counterpart.
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Dictator Ortega, who has not appeared in public in Nicaragua for more than a month, traveled to Venezuela to meet with the leaders of the countries that make up the ALBA-TCP, an alliance that currently leaves no benefit to Nicaragua, since none of The countries that comprise it appear as an important commercial partner for the country, as demonstrated by the import and export statistics of the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN).
The countries that make up the political and supposedly commercial association are: Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, as well as Venezuela and Nicaragua.
BCN statistics for exports last year indicate that the three main buyers of Nicaraguan products and services were first the United States, which bought more than U$1.5 billion, followed by Canada with U$419 million and Mexico with U$204 million. million, in Nicaraguan products.
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While in the case of Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela, three of the main members of ALBA-TCP together only bought 14.4 million from Nicaragua.
Despite the evident nonfunctionality of the alliance organized in 2004 by the dictators Fidel Castro, of Cuba, and Hugo Chávez, of Venezuela, both now deceased, the heads of the member States continue to meet and maintain the supposed objective of “achieving comprehensive development , ensure social equality and contribute to guaranteeing the quality of life, good living and independence, self-determination and identity of peoples.
Ortega fears the rejection of the people in other countries
In recent years, the Nicaraguan dictator has only traveled to Cuba and Venezuela, two of the most totalitarian dictatorships in the region, along with Ortega himself.
Analysts have pointed out that the tyrant of Nicaragua does not dare to travel to other countries, despite the fact that he has no legal impediments, because he fears repudiation activities against him, whether carried out by local residents who reject the dictatorship or by Nicaraguan political exiles who have fled repression and are scattered in many countries around the world.
