Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega reappeared on television on Wednesday, after 34 days without facing the public in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, and defended the strategy his government has adopted.
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The 74-year-old president, who was accompanied by his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, was seen with pronounced dark circles and excessively white hands, according to images transmitted by the obligatory television network.
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During his speech, Ortega defended the decision of his Government not to decree any type of emergency due to the pandemic, not to suspend classes or to restrict the entry or mobility in its territory to any traveler, because “if the country stops working, the country it dies, the people die, it dies out “
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After being absent from the public arena for more than a month, Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, assured that since the coronavirus outbreak was detected, 1,237 people have died in the country, “but just one cause of the virus ”. He added that the nine reported positive cases have been imported.
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The president accepted that, due to the pandemic, many investments in the country will be affected, “but the people will not starve,” he said. He insisted that if he orders the police, the army or the country to isolate himself, the country ends.
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Likewise, he assured that 90% of public hospitals are ready to serve people, thanks to the low rate of affected that your government has achieved. “We did not go out in stampedes, because what happened in other places does not happen to us,” he said.
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He also criticized the United States for not giving enough attention to detained and endangered migrants. “But what attention can they give if the largest economic and military power in human history does not have the capacity to assist its own citizens,” he said.
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Ortega pointed out that the current public health crisis “calls us to the solidarity and unity of the peoples of the world”, asking developed countries to stop producing nuclear weapons and weapons to attend to citizens. “It is a sign from God. He is telling us: ‘You are going wrong along the way’, he asserted.
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