Ortega is heading to Venezuela on Friday (photo/ Diana Ulloa)
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega today decreed seven days of national mourning to honor the death of Venezuelan President and Sandinista benefactor Hugo Chávez.
The announcement was made this afternoon by Ortega’s wife, Rosario Murillo, who said the Sandinista government is continuing its revolutionary work to honor Chávez.
Ortega is expected to travel to Venezuela Friday for Chávez’s funeral.
Socialism is usually more about rhetoric than results, and Commandante Chavez had few peers in the dark arts of demagoguery. His carefully chosen successor learned his lessons well; he blames the United States for “giving” cancer to the comandante. His death leaves Venezuelans with an opportunity to free themselves from the parasites of an evil dictatorship if they can but seize it.