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The poor will never accept a puppet govt, says Ortega

The poor will never accept a puppet govt, says Ortega
By Larry Moonze
Tuesday May 22, 2007 [04:00]

THE poor are no longer for sale and will never accept puppet leaders, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has said. On the occasion of the 112th anniversary of Nicaraguan national hero Augusto Cesar Sandino on Sunday commemorated in Managua, President Ortega described the opposition as traitors.

He warned, according to Prensa-Latina in Managua, that some opposition forces were colluding with foreigners to impose a puppet regime. "The opposition who collude against this government with the help of a foreign power are traitors,"

President Ortega said. "But the poor no longer accept chains. They no longer accept giving up and are no longer for sale."

President Ortega, who did not name who were behind the destabilisation plan, maintained that his government had uncovered attempts organised by the opposition aided by a foreign regime to divide local conservatives.

"They are being paid to join in as Union Nacional Opositora (gran UNO) to oust the government of the people and since they are working in silence I will not disclose names for everyone knows who I mean," he said.

In previous press conferences, President Ortega has mentioned the US and its agencies as trying to ensure he was ousted from power as it did in 1990.
President Ortega also reminded his political enemies that Sandino warned "that the Yankees need puppets for presidents of our Indigenous-Hispanic peoples".
However, President Ortega charged that times had changed as the poor no longer accepted to be chained and would not allow puppet governments to run Nicaragua.

Sandino was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion against the US military presence in Nicaragua between 1927 and 1933. Labelled as a bandit by the US government, his exploits made him a hero throughout much of Latin America where he became a symbol of resistance to US domination. Drawing the US Marines into an undeclared guerilla war, his guerilla organisation suffered many defeats, but he successfully evaded capture.

US troops withdrew from the country after overseeing the inauguration of President Juab Bautista Sacasa. Sandino was executed by General Anastasio Somoza Garcia, who went on to seize power in a coup d'etat two years later, establishing a family dynasty that would rule Nicaragua for over forty years. Sandino's legacy was claimed by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which overthrew the Somoza government in 1979.

Daniel Ortega Saavedra was president of Nicaragua from 1985-1990. As one of the leading commanders of the Sandinista forces that ousted Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in July 1979, he became head of the ruling junta in the subsequent leftist regime. During the 1980s Ortega led the Sandinistas in a long civil war against the US-backed Contras.

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