Daniel Ortega Quotes (16 Quotes)


    Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.

    What we asked for were weapons so that we could defend ourselves -- that's what we asked of the Soviet Union, of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, of the Algerians, of the Vietnamese and that's what we received so that we could arm the Nicaraguan people and defend ourselves in that war imposed on us by Ronald Reagan's Administration over a number of years.

    One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.

    Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.

    The fact is that the United States is behind what has happened in Nicaragua, and what they did was to promote a confrontation between Nicaraguans.


    An Ortega victory in November would leave Latin America with a third U.S. antagonist in the region, along with Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. It would raise the morale of Latin America, ... Other countries will say, 'Look, that small country got away with it. So can we' We will spread the revolution.

    His intelligence. Hes skillful and hes very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

    Today the winds of hope blow through Latin America and the Caribbean.

    We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.

    Civil rights in reverse is what I call it. What about our civil rights

    Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

    To be selected as one of the top 25 players in your age group in the nation says a lot.

    This subject brings pain and sadness, and also indignation at the manipulation,

    My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.

    There was a conviction that the socialist cause was a just one, and so wherever there were struggles against colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism, the Soviet Union would support those struggles and those causes, in the form of economic and military help. The economic assistance that the Soviet Union gave Nicaragua was invaluable.

    The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.


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