US urged Haughey to take tough line with Nicaraguan president Ortega

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1. US urged Haughey to take tough line with Nicaraguan president Ortega

It is evident that whatever Haughey achieved by taking a tough line with Daniel Ortega was not worth mentioning. The individual has become a president-for-life, exactly what his predecesor, the dictator Anastasio Somoza was. Ortega continues to defy the country´s Constitution by ignoring the obligation to allow free elections, which, in any case, are manipulated to deny the truly democratic candidates the opportunity of being elected through a fair and supervised electoral process.

It is of interest to point out that through the Venezuela arrangement Nicaragua imports all of its petroleum
products. The de-facto president and his family have built an empire by controlling the distribution of oil and petroleum products, imposing their conditions, manipulating prices, and pocketing all profits with absolutlely no control from the government.