Ortega follows Chavez

This has been known for some days now, but I never posted on it before:

2131: More comment now from another Latin American leader. Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega says “a ferocious campaign” has been mounted against Col Gaddafi. In a report on the website of newspaper La Prensa, he reiterated the Nicaraguan people’s solidarity with Libya and its leader.

Neither Ortega nor Chavez are doing themselves any credit here. I understand there are personal friendships involved in these cases (and that’s often of underestimated importance in world events, I think) but Qaddafi has gone far enough to have already lost many of his friends, and I think it would be more respectable of these two to follow suit.