President Daniel Ortega: Assange won the Peace Prize of the Peoples of the World (December 10, 2021)

July 3 is Julian Assange’s birthday. Taken from a Daniel Ortega speech on United Nations Human Rights Day.

from Presidente Daniel: Assange se ganó el Premio de la Paz de los Pueblos del Mundo Video here

The President of the Republic, Commander Daniel Ortega highlighted the journalist and activist Julian Assange, assuring that for his courageous denunciations “Assange earned the recognition of the peoples and therefore won the peace prize of the peoples of the world. “

“A day like today, has been dedicated by the United Nations to Human Rights. And today the old English empire that colonized Africa, America, everywhere, its highest authorities, not the English people, in collusion with the Yankee empire and with the betrayal of the wimps {Lenin Moreno] who took over the government at the time in Ecuador, where Julian Assange was protected, who had been given protection by the government of President Rafael Correa, spent six or seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. That was where Assange had taken refuge. Almost the same time that we had to spend in prison. I spent seven years and a few months in prison. Assange had to be held there in the Ecuadorian embassy. Then the wimp arrived, the traitor to assume the Ecuador’s presidency and the first thing he did was remove Assange, violating the right of asylum, violating international law, and turn it over to the repressive forces of the United Kingdom, of England. They still have a queen there, at this time… they have a queen, and who chose the queen? Who voted for the queen? They have a queen, yes. But at the end of the day, it is not the queen’s fault to be queen, she is already a lady who is ninety-something years old, incredible because the vitality she has had, it is simply the system that was installed in that country and that decided to have kings and queens as it happens in many European countries that call themselves democratic.

“The Yankees were persecuting Assange and what is Julian Assange’s crime? Having denounced the violation of Human Rights, the crimes committed by the US rulers in murders, in bombings. That was the crime, have denounced before the world those crimes that the United States of America committed and continues to commit in the name of democracy. In the name of democracy, they have committed and are committing the greatest crimes. In the name of democracy, they dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Europe, in the name of democracy, Adolf Hitler came to the government of Germany at the time, and there are still Nazis in those European countries, in Germany itself there are Nazi movements and those who claim democracy. And there are Nazi movements in the United States as well. Racists.” 

President Daniel Ortega stated that in England Julián Assange has been subjected to trials. “And it is that the British government has imprisoned a person who denounced crimes of the United States, and then he enjoyed asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador. They have quietly held him in detention, they have been imprisoning him and discussing whether to send him to the United States where they are asking for the death penalty, and if not, apply more than 100 years in prison, today on Human Rights Day.

“And what do the United Nations Human Rights organizations say – I say the United Nations because there is a United Nations and it has a Human Rights organization. We should expect that this organization would condemn the British government for having detained a citizen whose only crime has been to denounce the crimes, the tortures, the massacres, the murders of the Yankee government. And that this United Nations organization should be concerned with prosecuting the great criminals of the world, the great criminals, those who invade and bomb any country on our planet. And that power is called the United States of America.

“The United States speaks in the name of democracy and in the name of democracy they are committing one more crime today, because in England they ruled that Assange had to be sent there, handed over to the executioners in the United States.

“There is still one last appeal from Assange, it is difficult for that appeal to succeed. I wish it would succeed, but, because there is an affinity between these powers, they all have the same history of conquest, oppression, domination, of taking over other countries. “

However, President Daniel Ortega pointed out that “there are peoples there, rebellious peoples who are against these policies. The British people are a people who do not share those policies; of course there will be British citizens who are fascists. In the United States there are citizens who condemn the terrorist policy of the United States in the world. But to this date, what is happening with Assange seems a mockery.

“Assange has already won, from the very moment he made those courageous denunciations knowing that the intelligence and security organizations of the United States, combined with the Europeans, could assassinate him, Assange won the recognition of the peoples and therefore won the peace prize of the peoples of the world.

“Not the Nobel Prize that is given to those who then destroy, invade, murder, bomb. Assange is recognized and we recognize him as the peace prize for his courage, for his dignity, for his firmness and we stand in solidarity in this day with this man who has acted with enormous conscience and with great courage and now, well, he is on the brink of going to the gallows there in the United States of America,” concluded President Daniel Ortega.