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2008, San José, Costa
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Presiding Over UN
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Sandinista Priest
Presiding Over UN
UN - Miguel d'Escoto is
coming back to haunt
Washington. The foreign
affairs minister of
Nicaragua for eleven
years and a Sandinista
priest, d’Escoto is now
presiding over the
192-member body that is
the United Nations
General Assembly.
D’Escoto has found the
perfect pulpit from
which to point his
finger once again at the
United States.
Speaking about the five
members of the U.N.
Security Council he
declared that “their
veto power seems to have
gone to their heads, to
the point where they
believe they can just do
as they please.”
There is plenty of bad
blood. In 1983,
Nicaragua accused the
CIA of trying to murder
d'Escoto, by sending him
a bottle of Benedictine
liqueur laced with the
poison thallium. It was
at a time when
then-President Ronald
Reagan was backing the
Contra rebels who were
fighting the
Sandinistas, a
Marxist-influenced
government led by Daniel
Ortega. Much has changed
since then.
At age 75, and despite
hearing loss, the
Sandinista priest
remains combative.
More accustomed to slums
than the hallowed halls
of diplomacy, he wants
to refocus the U.N.'s
efforts on fighting
poverty and climate
change.
“We are drowning in a
quagmire. We have to get
out, otherwise we are
heading directly to the
extinction of the human
species,” d'Escoto told
FRANCE 24.
Second a diplomat but
first a priest, Miguel
d'Escoto feels that he
doesn't have to answer
to anyone...at least not
anyone of this world. |
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