The Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Nicaragua, Iván Acosta, attacked the United States again, this time, claiming for the sanctions that he assures are “relevant, but they do not stop our effort to guarantee trade.” The sanctioned took the opportunity to highlight its commercial relations with Russia.
In an interview with the international television network controlled by the Russian state RT, the Ortega regime official pointed out that the sanctions imposed by the United States are “an uncivilized way of doing politics”, affirmed that the sanctions have had an effect, but that ultimately “the impact is against the great majority and the poor.”
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The head of the Treasury assured that the US dollar will continue “to be a reference currency”, as it has been since the 1970s. But currently with what he considers “an imposition of coercive measures on other countries that prevent transactions in that currency” , considers that “it will not be relevant due to the same errors of the exclusive North American policy in commerce and in the banks.”
According to the Sandinista official, “the sanctions are the aggressive expression of the imperialist governments of Europe and the United States” and, supposedly, “show the inhumanity of their policies.”
Acosta was sanctioned by the North American country through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on May 22, 2020 for having “organized significant financial support for the Ortega regime,” but he also recalled that Minister Acosta threatened “personally banks not to take part in a strike organized by opposition leaders in March 2019, the aim of which was to push for the release of political prisoners.”
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“In Nicaragua we have always denounced the sanctions against our country, against officials, because we believe that it is an uncivilized way of doing foreign policy, politics in the broad sense,” said the Minister.
In addition, he stressed that in recent years a very broad cooperation in various fields has been perfected with Russia. So perfect that, “despite the sanctions imposed on both, it is carried out in the pharmaceutical, vaccination, cultural, energy for peaceful purposes, education, trade, transportation supply, among others.”
