The president of Nicaragua accuses Europe of being “the cursed mother of slavery”

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has charged against the European Union (EU), which he has reminded of its slave-owning past, and which was governed by fascists and Nazists. “European saints put chains on human beings in Africa and turned them into slaves”, Ortega pointed out in an act commemorating the 50th anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Managua in 1972 and which was broadcast on radio and television. “Europe is the cursed mother of slavery, they traded the slavesthey did business with the slaves,” he said.

Thus, the Sandinista leader has made reference to the European past when commenting on the lyrics of the Hymn of Joy, and has accused the European countries of impose “wars, sanctions, aggressions, blockades”which he has described as “terrorist practices of the countries that say they are civilized, that should set an example so that we can walk towards a better world that goes through the principle of respect for the nation, for the people, regardless of their size, their ideology and their religion”.

Along the same lines, Ortega has considered that these principles, despite being included in the Charter of the United Nations, “the first that do not respect them are the countries that call themselves civilized, are the most developed nations on the planet, and that They have had a practice of taking over nations, entire continents, dominating them, colonizing them.” “All those European countries, Pharisees, have the mortal sin of having unleashed wars among themselves to dispute hegemony and domination of the planet”, he added.

For Ortega, “it is natural and It is normal for a Hitler to emerge from the poisoned bowels of Europe.“, and has affirmed that “in these times Nazism has expanded and has reproduced itself in the same European countries that were occupied by Nazi Germany”, after which it has declared that “in Germany the Nazis are multiplying”.

The Nicaraguan president has said that the Earth cannot “renounce a world without war, without Nazism, without aggression, without invasions, without slavery practices,” and has criticized the call to Europe and the United States “the cradle of democracy”, because, in his opinion, in those countries there is always the fascism and neocolonialism.

Ortega has held an act at the Olof Palme convention center in Managua, in which he has requested a minute of silence for the thousands of victims left by the 1972 earthquakeas well as Blanca Segovia Sandino Aráuz, daughter of the national hero Augusto C. Sandino (1895-1934), who died this Friday.