Dictator Daniel Ortega described the president of the United States, Donald Trump, as “mentally deranged” during his speech at an event to celebrate the ‘Day of Peace’ in Nicaragua.
“The president of the United States who says that he is a man of peace, even the Nobel Peace Prize was fighting, they didn’t give it to him if (…) and it is a problem, we would say, of mental derangement, as we say here, he is not in his five senses,” questioned Ortega.
Ortega’s litany dealt with the usual topics: Sandino, William Walker, US interventions in Nicaragua, the blockade against Cuba, etc. Also, more recent topics such as the United States war against Iran, or the capture of the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro. But this time, Ortega attacked the mental health of the American ruler several times and in various ways.
He stated that if the “president of a power like that (in reference to the United States) who is not in his five senses, is going to destroy his people, and is destroying peace in the world.”
“The wars imposed in the way the president of the United States imposes them are typical of someone who lost his mind and believes he can do anything, any barbarity. He put up an image where he is in the suit of Christ, and he is healing. How many has he healed? The people of the United States are going to count him to find out how many he has murdered, because he has not saved anyone,” he emphasized.
Asks to stop the sanctions
In his speech, the dictator asked the United States to remove sanctions against Nicaraguan citizens, in reference to those issued in April 2026 by the US Treasury Department to two of his sons and several public officials, including the Vice Minister of Energy and Mines and the Vice Minister of the Interior of Nicaragua. Luis Roberto Cañas Novoa, for participating in “serious human rights violations.”
Ortega not only asked for his allies in Caracas, Havana and Tehran. He also advocated for his own. “They are launching sanctions. They no longer find anyone to sanction in Nicaragua“He assured. Until now, the sanctions issued by the United States, Canada and several European nations have specifically targeted against the children of Ortega and Rosario Murilloto several officials of his Government and companies linked to the corruption of the ruling family.
“That they suspend the sanctions they have against many countries! Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua… sanctions that threaten the lives of citizens, the sovereignty of peoples, and international laws. They have sanctioned so many Nicas, that they are looking for who else to sanction… with what authority?” he asked.
Against the April Rebellion, omitting murders
Ortega also had words for remember the beginning of what is known as the April Rebellionalthough the official narrative tries to present the citizen protests as an attempted coup d’état. “Peace had been taken from us, but we managed to recover it eight years ago,” he said.
He said that “what happened in those moments of terror left the Nicaraguan people convinced that there was no other way than peace.” His speech ignored that it was armed repression and the imposition of a de facto police state, which made it possible to demobilize citizens. He also made no mention of the 355 killed during the protests.
“Everything we have advanced in times of peace is visible: the programs, the housing, the construction of roads, the hospitals,” he defended.
After a time in which Ortega invoked Christ and defended the migrants, the time returned to remember historical themes, resorting to one of his favorite topics: the Hague ruling against the United States. This time, with a personal message for his American counterpart. “Let the advisors tell the president of the United States that that country has a debt with Nicaragua, and the debt is active. Pay! Pay! Pay!, and don’t go around bullying and sanctioning the people of the world.”
The staging of the president and his wife responds to the commemoration of a ‘Day of Peace’, which replaces the memory of the beginning of the protests against the Sandinista regime, in April 2018. In different cities around the world, dozens of events and activities were held organized by Nicaraguan exiles to keep alive the demand for democracy and justice for Nicaragua.
