Nicaragua's Ortega
Rules out Coup
MANAGUA - Nicaraguan President, Daniel
Ortega, dismissed the possibility that
soldiers launch a coup d'Etat in Nicaragua,
as that perpetrated in Honduras last year.
After closing the handover ceremony of the
Army's leadership on Sunday, Ortega said
there is no possibility of a coup, or
soldiers going out shooting workers or the
people.
The military body is comprised of men and
women that come from people and its roots
are strengthened in the struggles of famous
patriots as Jose Dolores Estrada, Benjamin
Zeledon and Augusto Cesar Sandino, Ortega
stated.
It was not like that in the past, Ortega
noted, referring to the crimes of the
National Guard, an armed body created by the
US occupation troops to protect its
interests and local puppets.
US troops had to leave the country, but
later Sandino was murdered on February 21,
1934, to try to kill his example and ideas,
the statesman stressed.
Guerrilla movement emerged later and the
Sandinista Front for National Liberation was
created. The latter enabled the 1979
victory, dissolved the National Guard, and
created the Sandinista People's Army, direct
precedent of the current Army, Ortega
pointed out.
The Nicaraguan president also referred to
the US-imposed war to the revolutionary
government in the 80s, which drained the
country of its resources and men and women's
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