{"id":36577,"date":"2018-08-08T19:08:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36577"},"modified":"2018-08-08T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:08:35","slug":"nicaraguan-president-blasts-us-foreign-policy-forget-normal-relations-us-demands-total-submission-even-servility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36577","title":{"rendered":"Nicaraguan President Blasts US Foreign Policy: Forget &#8220;Normal Relations, US Demands Total Submission, Even Servility&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-08-08\/nicaraguan-president-blasts-us-foreign-policy-forget-normal-relations-us-demands\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Nicaraguan President Blasts US Foreign Policy: Forget &#8220;Normal Relations, US Demands Total Submission, Even Servility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1519\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1519\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Yet another world nation appears to be<strong><em> joining the anti-hegemonic order&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/5b682c36e9180f40358b456a.jpg?itok=NYDYgooF\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/5b682c36e9180f40358b456a.jpg?itok=NYDYgooF\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/5b682c36e9180f40358b456a.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/5b682c36e9180f40358b456a.jpg?itok=NYDYgooF 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"77cca93a-c37d-4525-8d5f-e1b5b9f66539\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>US foreign policy is based on expansionism and oppression,<\/strong> President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/435267-nicaragua-us-meddling-ortega\/\">RT Spanish<\/a>, adding that those countries that refuse to submit to Washington\u2019s will are demonized and destabilized.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cWe have always wanted to have normal relations with the US but we see only aggression in return,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>Ortega said in an exclusive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/programas\/entrevista\/284062-daniel-ortega-nicaragua-entrevista-rt\">interview<\/a>\u00a0with RT Spanish.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He believes Washington clearly does not need good relations, as it constantly\u00a0<em>\u201cattacks\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the Nicaraguan government. Ortega added that <strong>the US demands\u00a0<em>\u201csubmission, even servility,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0while trampling on those who refuse to bow to Washington\u2019s will.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/5b68b994dda4c8905f8b45be.jpg?itok=xhqvClyS\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/5b68b994dda4c8905f8b45be.jpg?itok=xhqvClyS\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/5b68b994dda4c8905f8b45be.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/5b68b994dda4c8905f8b45be.jpg?itok=xhqvClyS 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c93cf8bd-a819-4c34-ad3d-44c7d7b5dde6\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/435267-nicaragua-us-meddling-ortega\/\"><em>As RT notes,<\/em><\/a> the <strong>US has long sought to absorb Nicaragua into its sphere of influence,<\/strong> even resorting to a direct military occupation in the early 20th century, the president explained.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cWashington\u2019s expansionist culture\u201d <\/strong><\/em>apparently makes the US unable and unwilling to forgive the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) for the fact that it overthrew the last Nicaraguan dictator that was supported by the US, said Ortega.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, just as we have seen throughout Europe, Ortega points out that <strong>Washington actively pushes its \u201chuman rights agenda\u201d <\/strong>through various NGOs as well as directly through its embassy in Managua in an attempt to present the Latin American state as a country \u201clacking democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe activities of all those \u2018human rights commissions\u2019 has long turned into business,\u201d <\/strong>he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ortega&#8217;s remarks came as his country copes with months-long civil unrest, which began as student demonstrations over the government\u2019s failure to handle forest fires in one of the most protected areas of the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve last April. Tensions increased further as the FSLN government announced unpopular welfare reforms.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, at least Ortega has not been the victim of a drone assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicaraguan President Blasts US Foreign Policy: Forget &#8220;Normal Relations, US Demands Total Submission, Even Servility&#8221; Yet another world nation appears to be joining the anti-hegemonic order&#8230; US foreign policy is based on expansionism and oppression, President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua told RT Spanish, adding that those countries that refuse to submit to Washington\u2019s will are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21193,20376,21194,5460,5632,21195,827,1174,865],"class_list":["post-36577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-hegemonic-order","tag-daniel-ortega","tag-expansionism","tag-nicaragua","tag-oppression","tag-rt-spanish","tag-united-states","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36578,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36577\/revisions\/36578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}