Ex Diplomat Refutes
Criticisms of Nicaraguan
Government
It is impossible to
assess the first year of
President Daniel
Ortega's government
without considering the
16-year heritage from
neoliberal
administrations,
Nicaraguan analyst and
ex diplomat Aldo Diaz
Lacayo said.
In a lengthy article in
El Nuevo Diario, Diaz
Lacayo refuted
criticisms of the
president, and pointed
out that that "the huge
deficits inherited from
neoliberal governments
during this period" must
be taken into
consideration.
He noted the good
performance of the
Ortega government, and
stressed that some
self-styled left-wingers
have measured his work
with "the right-wing
yardstick".
"Their judgments do not
tally with the left
wing's historic
responsibility to
contribute to the
success of their
governments," Diaz
Lacayo added.
He said that Ortega is
not exempt of left-wing
judgments, but he must
not be judged by
right-wing standards.
Diaz Lacayo warned that
if the left wing does
not transcend the right
wing's context, in which
it works and develops,
it would never be able
support left-wing
governments critically
to overcome
contradictions, rectify
and improve. |
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