Nicaragua’s Ortega May
Restore Ties With Honduras
By Blake Schmidt
(Bloomberg) - Nicaraguan President Daniel
Ortega said he may restore ties with
Honduras, strained by a coup last year that
ousted its former president, before the May
18 Madrid summit between Latin American and
European countries.
Nicaragua is the only Central American
country that hasn’t recognized the
government of Honduran President Porfirio
Lobo. Ortega broke ties with the neighboring
country after former president Manuel Zelaya
was deposed by soldiers last June.
“We’re convinced it’s necessary to normalize
relations,” Ortega said at a meeting in
Managua with Costa Rican President- elect
Laura Chinchilla that ended early today.
Central American leaders need to reactivate
the Central American Integration system,
designed in 1991 to strengthen political and
economic unity in the region, so they can
seal an agreement to deepen trade and
cooperation with the European Union, Ortega
said.
Honduras remains suspended from the
Organization of American States and hasn’t
been recognized by Latin American countries
such as Venezuela. Ortega, who had
previously said recognizing Lobo would
whitewash the coup, met with the Honduran
leader on April 9 in Managua for the first
time.
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