Tag: Daniel Ortega

• Tuesday, June 4th 2013 - 05:27 UTC

  Strong reaction from Bolivarian countries to Colombia’s cooperation with NATO

  

  President Juan Manuel Santos announcement over the weekend that Colombia will look for a cooperation understanding with NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) on their invitation, has irked the so called Latinamerican group of ‘anti-imperialist countries’, at a moment when relations between neighbouring Colombia and Venezuela have hit a new low.

• Friday, January 11th 2013 - 08:55 UTC

  Declaration of Caracas pledges support for Venezuela in the international stage

  

  Presidents, Foreign ministers and representatives from 22 Latinamerican and Caribbean countries stamped their signatures to a declaration stating their commitment in support of Venezuela and its institutions in the international stage.

• Monday, December 3rd 2012 - 04:49 UTC

  Colombia/Nicaragua agree to act “with a cool head” following disputed waters ruling

  

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said he has agreed with his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel Ortega, “to establish lines of communication” to resolve through diplomatic channels the maritime dispute between the two countries.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2012 - 22:20 UTC

  Colombia withdraws from UN Justice Court angry at latest ruling on Caribbean islands

  

  Colombia has withdrawn from a treaty that binds it to the UN International Court of Justice in anger at a ruling that shifts some of its resource-rich waters to Nicaragua, President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Wednesday.

• Thursday, February 16th 2012 - 20:43 UTC

  Controversy in Nicaragua over contribution for ALBA development bank

  

  Nicaragua’s Central Bank President Antenor Rosales quit following a disagreement with President Daniel Ortega over the use of foreign currency reserves to fund a regional bank for the Venezuelan-led bloc of eight nations known as Alba, (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas).

• Thursday, January 12th 2012 - 18:12 UTC

  Nicaragua’s Ortega condemned killing of Gaddafi and offered a prayer for Hussein

  

  Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega lashed out at Israel and condemned the killing of former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi while being sworn into office this week alongside Iran and Venezuela presidents.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 04:14 UTC

  Latam “progressive” countries openly supported tyrants despised by ”Arab Spring”

  

  The so called ‘progressive’ Latin American governments not only did they not support the revolution wave later known as the “Arab Spring” but openly and repeatedly backed the regimes against which the peoples of those countries rebelled.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:25 UTC

  Re-election for Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, continent’s poorest nation

  

  Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla leader, was headed for a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election. Preliminary results showed Ortega, who has cemented his hold on power with social spending for the poor, had 63.7% support based on a count of votes from 18% of polling stations.