Monday, January 15, 2007

Ahmadinejad in Nicaragua

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s current Latin American stop is Nicaragua to see Daniel Ortega. Although the two governments agreed to open embassies, the meeting fell very short of representing any sort of evil alliance. In fact, the two leaders spoke in very different terms.

Ahmadinejad: ''Our two countries have common interests, enemies and goals.”

Ortega: He spoke of ``constructive agreements to combat hunger, unemployment and poverty.''

Ortega avoided the “imperialist” rhetoric, and I think is perfectly willing to open an embassy in exchange for some sort of energy deal, while also working with the U.S.

Next stop: Ecuador's presidential inauguration. This will be a more interesting case, because Correa ran more toward the middle to win the runoff, so will he embrace the more radical rhetoric of Chávez or not?

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