By Deutsche Welle
The co-president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, called US President Donald Trump “psychologically deranged”against whom he charged for sanctioning his children, for “kidnapping” the former Venezuelan head of state Nicolás Maduro, and threatening “to disrupt” Cuba through a military operation.
In an official event on the occasion of the National Day of Peace, Ortega demanded that Trump, whom he did not mention by name, end “once and for all with the terrorist policies he applies in the world” and demonstrate that he is a man of peace.
“Even the Nobel Peace Prize was fighting, but they didn’t give it to him (…) It is a problem, we would say, of psychological derangement. As we say here: he is not in his five senses,” said the 80-year-old Sandinista ruler who has been in power since 2007.
“And the president of a power that is not in its five senses is going to destroy his people, and is destroying the peace and stability of the world,” Ortega continued.
The Sandinista president demanded that Trump end the war in Iran, “the blockade against Cuba, the sanctions against Venezuela and return President Nicolás Maduro to his country.”
In his speech, Ortega said he is convinced that there is no democracy in the United States. He argued that Trump is bypassing the Congress and Senate of his country to attack a third nation.
“If bombs have to be thrown, it is done through the one who has become an expert in throwing bombs (…) He is the same one who is continually launching sanctions against the people,” he reproached.
He criticized Trump for launching “attacks to kidnap presidents, as he did in Venezuela” with Maduroand for threatening Cuba “with a military operation.”
For Ortega, “the imposed war, in the way it is imposed by the trusty president of the United States, is typical of someone who has lost his mind and believes he can do anything, any barbarity.”
He also recalled that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) condemned the US “for its acts of terrorism in Nicaragua” during the civil war in the 1980s, and ordered Nicaragua to be compensated.
“Pay, pay and don’t go around bullying and sanctioning the people of the world!” Ortega launched.
