After the veto of the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Saliva, which prevented the entry of the Sandinista regime into the BRICS, after Daniel Ortega’s insults to the Brazilian president, the Nicaraguan dictator, known for his haughtiness and arrogance, “has cast two “steps back” and with a show of cowardice he now seeks that Lula forgives him for his offenses and allows him to enter the group of emerging economies, according to an analysis by the former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS). Arturo McFields.
The former Nicaraguan ambassador, consulted by Article 66analyzes that, after the “diplomatic slam” that the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship received in the BRICS, where “not only was it humiliated, but it was also rejected, vetoed,” now the tyrant of El Carmen is trying to rebuild his situation before his partners. China and Russia, who did not pay attention to him at the emerging markets summit and before his old friend in Brasilia to forgive him.
Dictator goes from bully to submissive
The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has shown its desperation to enter the BRICS, led by Brazil, Russia and China; with the aim of accessing the financial resources of the New Development Bank (NBD, the bank of the BRICS), given that the Western powers have restricted the Managua regime’s access to funds from multilateral organizations, and the US ordered to veto all requests of the Nicaraguan dictators.
However, direct friction between Ortega and Lula, two former friends and ideological partners, caused by the Nicaraguan dictator’s refusal to mediate for the release from prison of Bishop Rolando Álvarez and other religious people, caused the breaking of diplomatic relations, announced first. by Ortega who did not measure the consequences, and even launched offenses against the Brazilian president, whose influence in the BRICS is very high.
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During the Summit of heads of state of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americans (Alba), an already non-functional alliance given the deep economic crisis in Venezuela, held virtually, Ortega unleashed insults against President Lula whom he called “dragged.” and “subservient to the Yankees”, and in the same speech he terminated diplomatic relations with Brasilia. Ortega even boasted of not needing those relationships.
After calling the Brazilian head of state a coward, Ortega told him; «You are crawling too, Lula, you are crawling. And don’t tell me that your efforts were extraordinary… Remember your riots, the scandals, the Lava Jatos, remember all that well… remember Lula. “I could mention a dozen more things,” Ortega said and repeated on several occasions that the leftist and leader of the Workers’ Party wants to be the “representative of the Yankees in Latin America.”
Ortega, “coward seeks mercy” from Lula
For the diplomat McFields, the Ortega delegation, sent to the BRICS Summit, even knowing that they were banned by Brazil, did not manage to have high-level meetings, as was the case with Venezuela, which, although it was also already banned, at least the dictator Nicolás Maduro, “managed to do media diplomacy by taking photos with the main actors of the meeting.”
Instead, as McFields points out, what the dictatorship’s delegation achieved was “shameful diplomacy by going to a high-level event (only) to eat sandwiches.”
After that resounding failure, the dictatorship has assumed a cowardly and submissive position, begging for forgiveness with its attitude towards Brazil.
“The dictator Daniel Ortega, after the BRICS summit, takes two steps back and begins to try to dismantle the insults towards Lula and try to reestablish diplomatic relations with Brazil,” says the former ambassador to the OAS.
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McFields maintains that Ortega is now focused on reestablishing diplomatic relations with Brazil and to see if that allows him “at some point to enter the list of potential candidates for BRICS partners.”
“I would not be surprised if relations (diplomatic with Brazil) are renewed very soon in this desire to enter the BRICS,” warns the former ambassador, who resigned and denounced the dictatorship in full session of the OAS, in March 2022, then of which the regime stripped him of his nationality.
Dictators are thirsty for Lula
To show the cowardice and submission in which the dictators of Nicaragua are now prostrate, McFields highlighted that, while Venezuela, after being rejected in the BRICS due to Brazil’s veto, released a “strong statement” in which they criticize Lula, They call him an interventionist, they describe him as an aggressor; The Managua dictatorship returned, “as we Nicaraguans say, thirsty, from that summit, in search of reconciliation with Brazil.”
«In other words, the regime (Ortega-Murillo) after the BRICS Summit became silent and instead of criticizing Lula for the veto, they returned speaking wonders, there was a substantial change and a change in which (the delegation of) Ortega returned quiet, still. They returned with a 180 degree change, now they only say that the BRICS are wonderful and everything is going smoothly, but no longer (they say that) Lula is dragged along,” said MacFields, a diplomat who knows very well the behavior and management of foreign policy of the dictatorship.
Likewise, McFields warned that, according to the first reactions of the dictatorship, after the humiliation inflicted by Lula in the BRICS, there will probably no longer be the adjectives of “Lula evil, no more interventionist Lula, and not a word about Lula, so it is there where we see that Ortega is redirecting his diplomatic policy to obtain mercy from the Brazilian president.
