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Managua - Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega on Sunday asked U.S.
President Barack Obama for financial aid
without political conditions and a new
migration policy during the fifth Summit of
the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, local
media reported.
According to the government website "19
Digital," Ortega delivered a document which
represented the views of all the Central
American Integration System (SICA)
countries, saying that only aid for
development and the fight against poverty
could stem the flow of immigrants to the
United States.
"The only acceptable way is to provide funds
without political conditions," he said,
adding that Central American countries also
faced the "thankless task" of fighting drug
smuggling.
Ortega, who currently holds SICA's rotating
presidency, said 5 million citizens from the
SICA countries -- Belize, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador,
Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic -- now
live in the United States, compared with
41.7 million in the SICA region.
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