Nicaraguan President Ortega Says Cuba an Inspiration to Latin America

MANAGUA (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) -- Without the Cuban Revolution, there would not probably be any current process of Latin American rapprochement in favour of the peoples, says Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega in a message to mark the 53rd anniversary of the triumph of that emancipatory revolution.

The message, made public by the Council of Communication and Citizenry in Managua Sunday, recalled that the victory of Jan 1, 1959, marked "the triumphant beginning of Latin American and Caribbean revolutions" in the 20th Century.

President Ortega said Cuba "leads in the quest for justice, goodness, harmony, and above all in regaining those values in the personal, familial and social lives of our peoples, based on a faith in the human being and in the best future possible".

He highlighted Cuba's moral strength, its solidarity, scientific and cultural achievements, and progress made in social justice, as well as its dignity and tenacity, and the personal examples of Fidel and Raul Castro.

Without that heritage "there would probably not be any current advance in our processes of rapprochement in Latin America," said the message. -- NNN-PRENSA LATINA