Nicaragua sees hand of capitalism behind world’s woes, calls for re-founded UN

Nicaragua today called for recreating and re-founding the United Nations as an equitable and democratic Organization, blaming capitalism for terrorism and the other humanitarian and environmental crises afflicting the world.

“The increasing greed of global capitalism, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, has caused wars, has created, fostered, cultivated and used fanaticism and terrorism, spreading insecurity, destruction, and causing all forms of crisis, military, food, environmental, labour, humanitarian,” President Daniel Ortega told the General Assembly in a message read by Vice President Omar Halleslevens.

Countries which have complied with development goals, such as Syria, Libya, Iraq, have suffered intervention and been “devastated by terrorisms that are promoted to sustain imperial invasions and wars… disguised as internal conflict, brought about in an effort to seize and dominate our natural resources,” he said.

“There is no region of the world where the imperial hand is not shown, in the form of intrigue, aggression, manipulation, and all kinds of interference… We believe that the great challenges of this time can only be assumed from an equitable and democratic United Nations Organization that is recreated, re-founded and functional for the world and humanity in the 21st century.”