ortega has also moved closer to china and russia. so what's next for nicolai? this is inside story. ah. hello and welcome to the program. i am fully batty bo, danny and ortega is one of latin america's great political survivors. the left is guerrilla leader who sees power after topping a right wing u. s. banks, regime in 1979 accepted defeated elections in 1990. but he was voted back as president in 2006, and has been in the top jobs since after 3 further elections. during this time, he's been accused of increased repression and has been ostracized by the us and it's western allies. demonstrations which began 5 years ago marks the start of the crackdown on descent. victoria gate and b has the background. yeah. when president daniel will take a tried to cut welfare benefits to reduce the deficit in 2018 people responded with anger and protests. the reforms were later dropped. but the demonstrations intensive. i'd into a movement against ortega and his government in the months that followed you take or did a crackdown targeting human rights groups, journalists, and activists. at least 300 nicaraguans were killed and tens of thousands were forced in

that's exactly what danny ortega's done. and he's hoping now he'll get real development help from china and from russia. have new economic trading partners. and again, the maybe be able to, we nicaragua, off the u. s. dollar, which the u. s. uses to dominate other countries just cite nicaragua, this is happening around the world. the u. s. right now has about one 3rd of the world's population under sanctions. and given that and again, all that is the u. s. is able to do through dollar dub dub and it's to so called dollar diplomacy, which goes back to world president william our tap. and so countries act, nicaragua, had no choice but to seek trading partners outside the u. s. sphere of influence. but of course when they do that, when the us forces and to do it, then the u. s. blames them for doing it. again, this is class, it is exactly what happened during the country war where of course, nicaragua was forced to turn to the soviet union for help. and then the u. s. blame them for turning to the soviet of this is your thought

when you have to turn to other conversations, that is exactly what danny ortega has done and he is hopinge will get real development help from china and from russia, have new economic trading partners, and again maybe be able to wean nicaragua off the u.s. dollar which the u.s. uses to dominate other countries just like nicaragua. and this is happening around the world. the u.s. right now has about one third of the world's population under sanctions. given that and again all that is the u.s. is able to do through dollar dominance, through so-called dollar diplomacy, which goes back to president william howard taft, and so countries like nicaragua have no choice but to seek trading partners outside the u.s. sphere of influence. but of course when they do that, then the u.s. blames them for doing it. again this is classic. this is exactly what happened during the country or we are of course nicaragua was forced to turn to the soviet union for help and the u.s. blames them for turning to the soviet union. folly: astrid, your thoughts about this? nicaragua and china signing a series of strate