On June 27, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Moncada delivered a letter signed by Nicaraguan President Ortega to UN Secretary-General Guterres. In the letter, Nicaragua demanded that the United States repay more than $12 billion in “historic debt” to cover losses incurred by the United States in financing Nicaragua’s civil war in the 1980s.
It has been a month since the Nicaraguan foreign minister submitted the letter. The headquarter reporter learned from the Nicaraguan government that the Nicaraguan side has not yet received any response from the US. In this regard, Carlos Aglio, Nicaragua’s representative to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, condemned the United States for its long-term disregard of international law and international conventions, and its double-standard attitude is full of hegemony.
In 1984, the Nicaraguan government sued the US government to the International Court of Justice, demanding compensation for the losses caused by its interference in Nicaragua’s internal affairs over the years. In 1986, the International Court of Justice found that the actions of the United States violated the United Nations Convention and ordered it to pay more than US$12 billion in compensation to Nicaragua. Although the judgment has been handed down, the ICJ does not have the means to force the United States to enforce its judgment. In the United Nations Security Council’s multiple votes on this matter, the United States has continuously used its veto power, which has made it impossible to settle the compensation.
Headquarters reporter Gao Xue:After Nicaragua applied to the United Nations, has it received any response from the United States and the United Nations?
Carlos Aglio, Nicaragua’s representative to the International Tribunal in The Hague:We haven’t had any response so far. The United States has always denied that it has any type of obligation to Nicaragua and the United Nations, and it has also said no to the judgment of the International Court of Justice and refused to recognize it. But for example, the United States will only recognize the International Court of Justice when it needs it. When the United States and Iran had disputes, they sued Iran in the International Court of Justice. The United States said that it is a civilized way to resolve the issue in the International Court of Justice. This is the double standard practiced by the United States around the world. They consider themselves the masters of the world and can do whatever they want. Especially for us Latin American countries, they don’t shy away from it, wantonly infringe on public rights and interests, and don’t care at all.
Carlos Aglio stated that according to the judgment of the International Court of Justice, the United States bears legal responsibility and must pay compensation to Nicaragua.
Carlos Aglio, Nicaragua’s representative to the International Tribunal in The Hague:This debt is still pending because of the United States. Nicaragua will not eliminate this debt. This debt should be repaid as soon as possible. This is Nicaragua’s blood debt, and we will not give it up.
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The “historical debt” that Nicaragua demands from the United States to repay more than 12 billion U.S. dollars is inseparable from the numerous crimes committed by the United States in Nicaragua that year.
In July 1979, the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua supported by the United States was overthrown, and the opposition alliance headed by the “Sandinista National Liberation Front” took over the Nicaraguan regime. But since then, the United States has supported several rebel forces to provoke a civil war, which once again plunged Nicaragua into turmoil.
From 1980 to 1981, Carbo was the foreign policy adviser to the President of the United States:The goal is to get Sang Jiezhen out of power, from the very beginning.
The US “History” Channel reported in November 1981 that the then US President Ronald Reagan signed a top-secret document authorizing the CIA to recruit and support a 500-member Nicaraguan rebels. From 1983 to 1984, the US Central Intelligence Agency organized, planned and supported the Nicaraguan anti-government forces on many occasions, destroyed the oil reserves and natural gas pipelines in Nicaragua, and laid mines in many ports in Nicaragua.
According to the PBS documentary “Nicaragua War”, “So, the CIA escalated the war, directly participated in the invasion, and through a ship at sea, the CIA organized the attack itself. This classified CIA document shows that the agency hired organized a Latin American armed group and carried out dozens of sabotage activities.”
From September to October 1983, the Nigerian anti-government armed groups, instigated by the CIA, launched five attacks on Nigerian oil facilities within seven weeks. Among them, the two most destructive attacks were on the oil storage depots in the ports of Corinto and Benjamin Celedon in Nicaragua. About 4 million gallons of gasoline, diesel and other fuels were destroyed, which was equivalent to a week in the whole of Nicaragua at that time. consumption.
CIA employees of the year:We destroy ports, refineries, docks and bridges, we never wear our own uniforms, we wear rebel uniforms so that foreign media will think it’s rebels who did it, and Americans can do it clean go away.
According to the New York Times report at the time, the Reagan administration believed that direct attacks on Nicaragua’s industrial and transportation facilities would “hurt the Sandinista regime faster and more effectively” than previous approaches. Some media pointed out that the fact that the United States participated in the destruction of energy facilities in Nicaragua proved that the United States disregarded casualties and destroyed other countries’ core energy facilities by force in order to satisfy its own interests.
Latin American countries have suffered greatly from frequent U.S. interference in Latin American affairs
Interfering in Nicaragua’s internal affairs is just the tip of the iceberg of the “Monroe Doctrine” and hegemony that the United States has ravaged Latin America. The Monroe Doctrine was first put forward by then U.S. President Monroe in 1823, nominally declaring that “America is the America of the Americans,” but in essence it opened the way for the U.S. to dominate the Americas, implement power politics, and force Latin American countries to act according to the will of the United States.
In the 200 years since the “Monroe Doctrine” was put forward, the United States has not only directly used military means to invade Latin American countries dozens of times, but also frequently used “money politics” and other indirect means to interfere in the affairs of Latin American countries. suffer from it.
From 1908 to 1915, there were 6 coups in Haiti, 8 presidents were changed, and Haiti fell into a long-term civil strife. In order to gain political and economic benefits, the United States sent troops to occupy Haiti in July 1915, and did not completely withdraw until 1934. During this period, the U.S. Marine Corps and military police repeatedly violated human rights and tortured and tortured local residents. To this day, Haiti remains one of the least developed countries in the world.
In 1952, the then President of Guatemala, Jakovo Arbenz Guzman, promulgated the land reform law, which expropriated the idle and leased land of large estate owners and distributed it to landless farmers, thus shaking the American-funded monopoly United Fruit Company. Benefit. Under the lobbying of the United Fruit Company, the US government supported Carlos Castillo Armas to launch a coup in June 1954, overthrowing the Árbenz government. Since then, Guatemala’s government has been plagued by corruption and soaring debt, and continues to face unrest.
In December 1989, in order to avoid losing its strategic interests in the Panama Canal, the United States launched a military operation against the Central American country Panama. The U.S. military said the operation killed more than 500 Panamanian soldiers and civilians, but the Panamanian Human Rights Commission said about 4,000 people were killed in the invasion. In 2018, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights judged that the actions of the United States violated the “American Declaration of Rights and Duties” and demanded that the United States compensate Panama for its aggression, but the United States has not responded.
In addition, it seized nearly 2.3 million square kilometers of land in Mexico through the U.S.-Mexico War, and invaded Grenada to support the pro-U.S. regime… The crimes of the U.S. interfering in and suppressing Latin American countries are too numerous to list. To this day, the United States is still oppressing Latin American countries through various means. “Too far from heaven, too close to the United States” still hangs over Latin American countries like a curse.
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2023-07-31 14:10:00
