Ortega Opposed to Food for Fuel
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega coincided with the Cuban leader Fidel Castro that to produce ethanol on a large scale as fuel is detrimental to the production of food for humanity.

"As political leaders, we have coincided in this statement," the Sandinista leader said Thursday night after being questioned on an article of the Cuban president, in which he warns on the danger of turning food into fuel.

"The problem here is not if we use ethanol or oil, but to take into consideration that firstly the Earth is to produce food, and not to feed cars," stated the Nicaraguan head of State.

According to Ortega, the main boost given to the massive production of bio-fuels in the last few months, particularly by US President George W.

Bush, is that the capitalist world is caving into the dictates of consumerism.

"The great battle is against the logic imposed by the capitalist system of accumulating capital without taking into consideration people suffering from hunger," he noted.

In his Thursday s article, the Cuban president said Bush s idea was sinister, and would condemn over three billion people in the world to premature death.

Ortega considered that if fields with sugar cane and corn are encroached to produce fuel, "it would be detrimental to the human species."