President Ortega emphasized that the era of empires is buried forever". | Photo: CCC César Pérez / @Canal4Ni

Managua, October 28 (RHC)-- The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, rejected Thursday the sanctions imposed by the United States government against several countries and described them as violations of human rights.

During the ceremony for the 43rd anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior, the president said that the U.S. is the country that has applied more sanctions, and "therefore greater damage, greater crisis has also been caused in the world."

"It is the U.S. rulers with their terrorist policies, violators of human rights, because they are violating human rights when they close job opportunities, when they sanction as they have sanctioned Cuba, Venezuela, and even the way in which they mistreat Central American countries," he said.

On the other hand, he declared that the European Union is destroying itself, since "they have applied so many sanctions that now they have problems even to guarantee their energy.  It is their fault that they have caused this disaster by wanting to destroy the Russian Federation."

"We have NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), which is the EU with the U.S. involved in a war against Russia, because what Russia did was to launch an initiative to stop them from killing its citizens, the special operation (...) the Europeans have become an instrument in U.S. policy," he said.

The head of state affirmed that the capitalist powers have united to seek how to destroy Russia and China "they come with two very clear targets. They see that China is growing, that it is a power; they see that Russia is still a power, so they say that this is the opportunity to destroy Russia and China.  They are going forward with a hegemonic and imperialist policy."

President Ortega pointed out that it is time to change that mentality because "the era of empires is buried forever, and they must get ready to work in a multipolar world."  He also questioned the fact that the thousands of migrants dying off the coasts of Europe are not denounced before international bodies.

The president also criticized the statements made by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, recalling that the official said that "while Europe is a garden, the rest of the countries are a jungle."

"Imagine, what respect for the peoples of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean.  But it does not say that this garden, that this wealth that the EU has had, that this garden was watered with the blood of millions of human beings," he recalled.  And the Nicaraguan president emphasized that European wealth comes from countries they invaded to "develop their own economies with wealth stolen from the African peoples."