Ortega: “Strengthen CELAC so that the peoples have sovereignty” (+ video)
2022-05-19 08:46:53 / [email protected] / Ana Teresa Badía Valdés
Photo: Jairo Cajina
The President of the Republic, Commander Daniel Ortega, during the central act of the 127th anniversary of the birth of General Augusto César Sandino, called on Latin America and the Caribbean to strengthen the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) so that the peoples could have greater sovereignty and to gain more autonomy in the face of the conspiracies of imperialist systems like the United States and the European Union.
“At this moment it seems that our Latin America and the Caribbean do not have independent states, it seems that we are all colonies of the Yankee Empire, it seems that there is a king and that the king decides when we meet and when we meet we don’t meet and that the King decides who invites to their conspiracies and who doesn’t, because these are meetings to conspire against the same Latin American and Caribbean peoples, it’s ridiculous, absurd to even think that this could exist in our region at that time”said Ortega.
19 Digital confirms that in this way the Nicaraguan leader recalled that the Latin American and Caribbean peoples have in CELAC a powerful organization that emerged strongly and with great energy as the revolutionary processes multiplied in the Latin American region.
“We have already managed to create a meeting point for Latin America and the Caribbean, the community of Latin American and Caribbean countries that was born with the power and energy of the revolutionary processes that were multiplying in Latin America and the Caribbean at a time It was possible to create this community of Latin American and Caribbean countries, and we Latin American and Caribbean peoples had the courage not to tell the Yankees come and get on board here too, which would be like putting cheese in our countries’ mouths Put the cat in its mouth.” .
And he reflected on the need to give strength to CELAC so that it could use that strength to demonstrate unity and consolidation before other nations.
“We have a starting point and what we need now is power for what, for this community to have sovereignty, have autonomy and just like the community of Latin American and Caribbean countries meet, meetings are held with the People’s Republic of China or with the Russian Federation or with India. In other words, since we encourage these types of meetings, we invite and are invited, and if you want to have a meeting with CELAC, respectful meetings, no strings attached meetings, here’s what CELAC should be telling the Yankee government, stay at your summit and we as CELAC invite you, we invite you to come to us and meet with us, and you will not say who will attend this meeting, we, the members of CELAC, decide about it. “he pointed out.
He added that it is time for the Latin American and Caribbean peoples to gain respect, “Because we can’t ask or beg the Yankee that we want to go to his summit. We are not stimulated by its peak. We understand the concerns, the stance of the governments, the Latin American presidents that have questioned, and we recognize this circumstance that has challenged the fact that the Yankees are marginalizing Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua as a real one bold stance, but I’m saying from here to the Yankee, forget we’re not interested in being at that summit, we’re not interested. Going to that summit will be filled, when it will be filled we already know what.”He added while continuing: “This summit does not raise anyone, rather it is dirty, muddy, we must defend ourselves (…) so that they respect us, do not forget that we have CELAC, that we have a powerful tool to say to the European Union , let’s meet the European Union and not we will tell the European Union that such a country is not coming, they will come with those who want to come, just like the United States, just like Canada, we are from CELAC, um to invite them, but it’s not like they’re going to start saying: we can’t go to CELAC because there are such and such countries, so what world are we in, the spectacle that the Yankee rulers made with that famous summit give what they call the summit of america is really a disgrace”concluded the President.
On video: President Daniel and Compañera Rosario pay tribute to General Sandino