Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was inaugurated for another term in the Central American state. The country was the focus of a US destabilization plan in the 1980s., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Daniel Ortega sworn in as President of Nicaragua
• Ramiro Valdés heads the Cuban delegation
Granma International
MANAGUA, January 10.—A new chapter in Nicaragua’s history opened here today in Managua’s Plaza de la Revolución which witnessed the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution in 1979, when reelected President Daniel Ortega was sworn in for a second five year term (2012-2017), in the presence of international diplomatic delegations.
Ortega accepts the presidential sash in
Managua’s Plaza de la Revolución.
Photo: Reuters
General (ret) Omar Halleslevens was likewise sworn in as Vice President of the Republic.
Comandante de la Revolución Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Vice President of Cuba, who headed the Cuban delegation to the ceremony, noted that Ortega’s reelection is a victory for Latin American and Caribbean peoples, and is a valuable event in the context of region al integration.
For us Cubans, he said in an interview with PL, Daniel and the Sandinista movement are closely bound to our Revolution in the historic link of fighting for justice and national independence.
"Nicaragua has never failed to support us in battles against the blockade maintained by successive U.S. administrations, nor in its backing for the struggle to liberate the (Cuban) Five" he affirmed.
This Tuesday the Vice President had a "brotherly conversation" with the legendary Sandinista Comandante Tomás Borge, currently Nicaraguan ambassador in Peru, during a meeting with Cuban diplomats and internationalist personnel in the country’s embassy here.
Members of the Cuban cooperative missions gave details of their work in the context of medical training, treating Nicaraguan patients in hospitals and in the community, and ophthalmological operations.
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