Staying at home: Daniel Ortega (photo/ Tim Rogers)
(posted Feb. 20, 2:35 p.m.)- The ongoing border tiff between Nicaragua and Costa Rica continues to hamper Central American integration efforts as Sandinista President Daniel Ortega pulled a no-show at today’s Central American presidential summit in San José.
The summit, which was also skipped by Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes, is part of the Central American Integration System’s (SICA) efforts to strengthen trade and security in the region.
Hosted by Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, this SICA summit is being attended by the presidents of Panama, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. El Salvador is represented by its Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez and Nicaragua by Trade Minister Orlando Solórzano.
In Nicaragua, the Sandinista government has not given any official reason for Ortega’s absence. Ortega, who likes to talk about the importance of Central American integration and unity, also skipped all the SICA summits the last time Costa Rica help the pro tempore presidency of the regional body.
The cold shoulder is mutual. When President Ortega was president pro tempore of SICA, Chinchilla skipped all the presidential summits held in Managua. So nah-nah-nah-boo-boo.
Skipping might have been wise. Chinchilla has refused bilateral talks and Costa Rica has a habit of trying to turn regional organizations into a bitch fest against Nicaragua. When a woman refuses to meet you face-to-face while whining about you behind your back, why attend a dance where you know she will be? Nothing good can come of that.
President Ortega doesnt just like to talk about the Central American unification, he has shown it with actions! also president Ortega is not only staying home like the reporter of this article shows in the pictures above, our Nicaraguan president is working on improving the economy of Nicaragua as we all know that it has been getting better thanks to ALBA, UNASUR, CELAC, Venezuelas (President Chavez) most important thing the nicaraguan economy is getting better because U.S. is not putting an illigal embargo like back in the 80s. Costa Ricans dont even like president Chinchilla most of them regreted voting for her, every nicaraguan is upset with this woman because her hateness has gone so far that she is illegaly building a road on a biological corridor (170kms) about 90 miles on river San Juan, between Nicaragua and Costa Rica border, then Chinchilla talks about Costa Rica being a ”green country” BS!!! thats the double moral of the Costa Rican goverment, on the other hand, Costa Rica government lis about ”not having an army” also BS!!!! what kind of ”police” uses M16 and what kind of ”police” is trained by Israelian ARMY?? I dont blame president Ortega for staying home and work to develope the nicaraguan Human Development Index…president Ortega DOES NOT WASTE TIME!!!!
PS: Sorry for re-writting my comment, I needed to re-frase what I needed to say…