The Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Iván Acosta, promoted the construction of the interoceanic canal, the biggest failure in infrastructure of the dictatorship and the cause of the repression of thousands of peasants, while a delegation of high-ranking officials approached Moscow to participate at the St. Petersburg economic forum.
Acosta maintained that the country continues to be an “ideal platform” in economic terms for Russia, Eurasia and the joint economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, known as BRICS, during the forum held between June 15 and 18.
“Nicaragua is a country with an enviable position in geographical terms and with important natural resources and with the opportunity to also have other alternatives for trade, which is an interoceanic canal, which would be very important in these times of sanctions and aggression,” Acosta said in an interview with Sputnik.
Since last January, when Ortega took office for a fourth consecutive term after voting without democratic guarantees, he has strengthened his ties with Russia and China, while refusing to comply with his international obligations in terms of respect for human rights.
Ortega keeps more than 180 political prisoners in jail and rejects the restoration of freedoms to Nicaraguan citizens, who live under a de facto police state, which prevents them from having the right to demonstrate and to associate.
They meet with Lavrov, Putin’s foreign minister
Acosta was one of the members of the Nicaraguan delegation, which met with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, which was headed by Foreign Minister Denis Moncada Colindres and two of Ortega’s sons: Laureano and Daniel Edmundo Ortega Murillo.
The statement from the meeting of the Nicaraguan delegation with Lavrov reiterated the “strategic alliance” between the two nations, while Minister Acosta affirmed that they support Russian foreign policy that is currently being questioned after the brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Lavrov responded to Nicaragua’s support with the words he offered during the meeting with the high-level delegation. “We always support Nicaragua in the UN (United Nations Organization) and in other organizations, and we know that our Nicaraguan friends also support us,” he said.
None of the delegations referred to the recent international controversy over the authorization of the entry of Russian troops into Nicaragua in the context of the invasion of Ukraine, which was “oversized” for the propaganda of Russian state television, according to the expert on security issues, Roberto Cajina.
Doña “Chica” Ramírez: “Acosta has no scruples”
Acosta’s statements on the issue of the interoceanic canal provoked the indignation of the peasant leader Francisca “Chica” Ramírez.
“As the anti-canal Peasant Movement and that we have been fighting against the project, it seems like a total abuse of Mr. Iván Acosta offering something that he does not own. The only owners of our land, of Nicaragua, are the Nicaraguans,” said Ramírez.
According to the leader, Acosta has no scruples and is trying to do what Ortega did: “sell a vacuum, they no longer have anything else to fall back on, other than offering the resources of our country, our lands, in something failed.”
Ramírez affirmed that it is precisely the peasants who actually defend the sovereignty that “Ortega and all his henchmen” handed over in 2013.
The concession of the great interoceanic canal was ceded to the unknown Chinese businessman Wang Jing, who supposedly would make possible a “dream of centuries” at a cost of 50 billion dollars. The work never started and became another unfulfilled promise of the Regime, while an opaque business relationship between Ortega and the beneficiary in the telecommunications sector, as revealed last February by an investigation by CONFIDENTIAL.
“These are people without morals. The whole world also has to know that any treaty made with Ortega, after he once again held fraudulent elections, whatever they do is invalid. Our fight continues and they are totally discredited. They know that 90% of the people reject them”, reiterated Doña Francisca “Chica” Ramírez.
