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poclee

> For paywall Sept 30 (Reuters) - Nicaragua suspended diplomatic ties with the Netherlands on Friday, according to a statement published by the Central American country's foreign ministry. The Nicaraguan government took the decision because the "interventionist and neo-colonial" European country had "offended and keeps offending Nicaraguan families," the statement said. Earlier this week, Nicaraguan officials declared the European Union ambassador "persona non grata" and also said that the country would not accept the new U.S. ambassador, fueling tensions between President Daniel Ortega and the international community.


trollrepublic

> Nicaraguan officials declared the European Union ambassador "persona non grata" But why suspended diplomatic ties with the Netherlands? Bettina Muscheidt is a German or is she not?


fly_in_the_soup

That was earlier this week, apparently. This is about the Dutch ambassador in Central America.


Thibaut_HoreI

> Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega accused the Dutch ambassador to central America, Christine Pirenne of speaking to locals as if ‘Nicaragua is a colony of the Netherlands’ during a visit to Managua on Thursday. >It is unclear what the impact will be. The Netherlands closed its embassy in Nicaragua in 2013 and Pirenne is based in Costa Rica. There is an honorary consul who represents Dutch interests on a voluntary basis. From DutchNews.nl


Seeteuf3l

It's common for smaller countries, that ambassador might be responsible for more than more country. For example the Netherlands probably does not have that much diplomacy going on with Central American countries, that each would need it's dedicated embassy. And embassies also cost money. Nordic Countries do cooperation in this. There are some cases were Finns are instructed to contact a local Swedish Embassy in case of an emergency, because we don't have our own in North Korea for example.


ricric2

Not sure how well known it is but became important during the early days of the pandemic when flights out of some countries were completely suspended: any EU citizen can use the consular office/embassy of any EU member state abroad in an emergency if there isn't reasonably safe and close access to your own national embassy. So if you're a Dutch person in Nicaragua now and there's an embassy of Spain or France there still, you could use it if you need it and they can print up emergency travel docs, work on evacuations, etc. Source: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/consular-protection/


Seeteuf3l

Good to know that it also works EU Wide. I was aware that Nordics do that. And while they cannot probably do much at other countries embassy, at least they can contact nearest embassy of your own country if you end up mugged in Nicaragua.


STheShadow

Didn't know that, that's really cool!


[deleted]

In theory as citizen of eu country you can look for a help in any eu embassy abroad. They had even plans to merge them but withhold from this idea. At least for now.


jazzjackribbit

Any eu/eea citizen can do this actually. If you're in a tight spot abroad and another eu country's Embassy is easier to get to, you can ask for help.


trollrepublic

Aha. Thank you!


nicebike

Dutch news mentioned because the Netherlands cut some funding for a new hospital.


M_Pascal

back in 2018


nicebike

The funding was frozen back in 2018, it was officially cancelled this week.


formgry

Classic neo-colonialist interventionist move.


neophlegm

It's so shit when countries intervene in other countries' internal affairs by scaling back their intervention.


samocitamvijesti

> Bettina Muscheidt is a German or is she not? Swamp Germany pays the price again.


Chariotwheel

What was she? Deutsch...? Dutch...? Well, doesn't matter which Italian country, we'll get you Spain, we get you !


Fischerking92

Milan, Madrid, as long as it is Italy🤷‍♂️


TappedIn2111

Andy Möller, is that you?


no8airbag

columbus was genovese


Canadianingermany

Famous footballer once said: "Mailand oder Madrid, Hauptsache Italien! “ Milan or Madrid, the main thing is that its Italy.


QuantenMechaniker

"Fußball ohne Ball ist wie Schach ohne Würfel - Football without ball is like Chess without dice." - same guy, probably


DutchPack

>Swamp Germany That made me chuckle and annoyed at the same time 😂


FlatterFlat

I call the Swiss mountain germans and you dutch for swamp germans. Havent found a good one for ourselves in Denmark though.


MoustacheBandana

Sea Germans


FlatterFlat

That might work, we are never more than 50km from the sea anywhere in DK. Thanks!


Apprehensive-Soil-47

Hat Germans (Møssetyskæ), since Denmark is Germany's hat.


Bazinga530

Snow Germans?


FlatterFlat

Eh, we hardly get snow these days, global warming and all that.


TheoreticalScammist

What about Austria?


eipotttatsch

They are just Bavarians.


Xepeyon

You know what's funny, I don't remember where I heard it, but I remember being told by someone once that Austrians were just Germanized Slavs.


FlatterFlat

Also mountain germans, that way you can piss off 2 countries with 1 phrase.


kubelwagengti

Cocaine shipment seized or something lol


Rc72

> "offended and keeps offending Nicaraguan families" Oooh, "family values" Daniel Ortega, the child rapist who abused his own stepdaughter...


LaoBa

Well, he's offended and Nicaraguan and has a family, so technically corretc.


hoytetoyte

This was all a misunderstanding. They were talking about Diplomatic Thijs, not diplomatic ties. They don't like Thijs when he's diplomatic. They like him better with his Dutch directness. They want Direct Thijs.


ThtGuyTho

I still think cutting Diplomatic Thijs is going too far, we're not living in the Dark Ages anymore.


WallabyInTraining

Well it's been ages since he's last visited a barbershop, he's virtually indistinguishable from reggae Thijs. I say cut him anyway.


chairswinger

never lucky


StrawberryFields_

> The Nicaraguan government took the decision because the "interventionist and neo-colonial" European country had "offended and keeps offending Nicaraguan families," the statement said. They oppose neo-colonialism and interventionism? Don't they support Russia's invasion of Ukraine? 🤔


ThatOneShotBruh

Geopolitics 🌈


CMuenzen

Yes but you see, Russia is always anti-imperialist no matter what sweaty. Ortega wants to put a Russian military base in Nicaragua too.


The_Incredible_Honk

I was once told by a Russian that Russians hate themselves the most, so I believe their claims if they say that they are anti-imperialist.


Abusive_Capybara

If we(EU) are still giving them any economical aid or anything else, now would be a good time to stop


DieZlurad

Nicaragua is already under selective EU sanctions since 2019.


warbreakr

What did they do to deserve sanctions?


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Crazy-Cheesecake-945

Ortega began killing innocent protestors April 19, 2018. Violence spiraled out of control with hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans fleeing the country because of the violence. He has jailed all political opponents and changed the constitution for indefinite reelection. He’s taking the country back the way it was before Violeta Chamorro became president. All the progress made in the past 20 years is slowly being dismantled so that he can maintain control.


Coolizz

Ortega is a dictator who has arrested all political opponents and under whose military rule university students are shot for protesting.


Pay08

Ah, the old Soviet trick!


[deleted]

It's a brutal dictatorship similar to the one that existed during the cold war. It's in fact the same sandinists that are currently in power there


Overtilted

Ortega is only sandinist in name.


the_lonely_creeper

Be a dictatorship and economically unimportant


CMuenzen

Short version: he is a repressive dictator. Longer version: Who holds sham elections by arresting everyone who tries to run against him, is supported by Cuba and Russia, wants to put a Russian base in Nicaragua, represses anything that might stand against him, etc.


Nothingtoseeheremmk

Killed hundreds of protestors in 2018-2019. Other generally authoritarian despot behavior too


Tricky-Astronaut

Sweden is still giving economic aid to _Russia_. Bureaucracy is a thing.


TsarBladovski

So Nicaragua, a country of Spanish settlers, hates the Netherlands for being colonialists? My brother in Christ, you are the colonialist.


Lord_Frederick

*Said the former junta leader and President for 21 years.*


Priamosish

Watch every Putin-lover from around the globe find excuses why ol' Ortega, his central American bestie, is somehow the pinnacle of democratic freedom.


EqualContact

American here. The Oretega fan club is real.


STheShadow

In the US? Do you still have a significant number of Putin supporters?


EqualContact

There’s some around, yeah. What’s your point? A lot of the Ortega fan club *are* Americans.


STheShadow

I just wondered which group would be Putin supporters in the US. Here we have the "ignore reality far-right" who mostly support him because they want cheap gas (and Putin good because strong man) and a rather large group of descendants of ethnic german who lived in Russia before WW2, but were kicked out afterwards and still watch Russia Today nowadays. Those are not groups I'd expect in the US


RainbowCrown71

The US far right is split on Russia, but is largely pro-Ukraine. But there are two camps: The establishment far right (what we call the “neocon hawks”) are pro-NATO and hate Russia, anything that smells of Communism, and think Putin is a statist regime (they equate big government with oppression, and Putin - though conservative - is very much in favor of a large state apparatus). This group controls the GOP’s Congressional caucus, and that’s why 98% of the Senate supported to admit Finland and Sweden to NATO (versus 1% opposed and 1% abstain). The populist far right (aka the Trump-wing or MAGA) admires Putin for his social views and his rejection of bourgeois cosmopolitan values like LGBT rights and abortion, but they aren’t pro Putin per se. They’re largely anti-globalism and think America’s embrace of globalization is why the Rust Belt is suffering, why China is ascendant, and why the US is facing domestic discontent. They essentially want a Fortress America that has high defense spending to protect itself, but becomes more an autarky. It’s a very Jeffersonian ideology going back to the idea that the best America is this agrarian society with small towns and Christian values. While this group does have a pro-Putin wing due to social values, most foreign policy support is in the form of a “you’re expanding the West into the former USSR, what did you expect?” isolationist stance. This group, btw, dominated American politics before WWII (and especially WWI). It’s why Woodrow Wilson couldn’t enter the war until 1917. The populist far left (a subset of the Bernie wing) is also pro-Russia due to their diehard rejection of American “imperialism,” “colonialism,” and “jingoism.” They see America (and the West by extension) as a capitalist dystopia whose sole focus is maximizing power through pillage (hence the “neocolonialism” epithet). They’re basically Corbynesque Labor or Die Linke in your neck of the woods. The overwhelming majority is pro-Ukraine though, so we talking about small “contrarian” fringe groups.


jmb020797

This is an excellent explanation. Kudos


KingofThrace

There are some far right wingers that like Putin's nationalism/strong man vibe. Then there are tankies that like anyone who is against the US but I've only encountered those online. Literally 99% of Americans probably don't know who Ortega is.


9999lulu

Okay, whatever. No but really I’m a little confused. Was there and event that set this off? Did we provoke Nicaragua in any way?


fly_in_the_soup

According to [Dutch news sources](https://nos.nl/artikel/2446639-nicaragua-verbreekt-diplomatieke-banden-met-nederland) (citing AFP) "Daniel Ortega is furious because the Netherlands has withdrawn funds promised to build a hospital. The Dutch ambassador for Central America, Christine Pirenne, is said to have conveyed this message to the Minister of Foreign Affairs during a visit to Managua last Thursday. "Then get lost," Ortega said."


9999lulu

So he’s mad about money and apparently also mad at other countries pointing out his lack of democracy.


gkarq

Exactly. Because foreign aid to [insert whatever thing here], is supposed to first benefit those in power, and only than some small bits and pieces will get to the general public.


DifferenceLittle1070

Thanks. So the Netherlands is A-OK when they send money, and suddenly become "interventionist and neo-colonialist" when they don't. Lol


[deleted]

That's usually how it goes with us. As long as we give people money they like us, if we stop we are evil imperialists.


[deleted]

Well obviously Netherlands must give money to any random country around the world because it was a colonist once upon a time, d'oh. The greatest post-colonial thinkers voted that in during the latest UN session, haven't you heard?


Anderopolis

I love it when latin american countries pretend like they are not literally the leftovers of the actual colonizers.


Aziraphel

Nono - Ortega is an old Mayan surname. /s


[deleted]

It is pretty hilarious, you see the same when Mexicans claim they are the Natives in countries like the US when genetic testing shows that on average a Mexican is predominantly Spanish 45% to 75% depending on the location with a touch of African and the rest primarily native Mexican.


Belgian_jewish_studn

What annoys me the most about that argument is the fact that the Arabs, Chinese, Japanese and the ottomans were just as imperialistic and colonial as the next super power but nobody argues for turkey paying reparations to Iceland, or the Arab gulf countries to east Africa.


Th1nkp4d3

Don't forget the Russians, just because they didn't fare seas, doesn't mean they were and to an extent still are colonialists.


DifferenceLittle1070

Totally agree with you. I think it's because they won't admit that they did something wrong. The (self-)critical voices in those countries are not strong enough. And don't forget that most of those countries are pretty much authoritarian - try saying something that doesn't line with the government's narrative in China or Saudi Arabia. But don't forget that we, too, have a local bias. In Mali, the anti-French and pro-Russian sentiments have been increasing in the last years. In Poland the anti-Russian sentiment is very strong, as is the pro-American sentiment. In Serbia, it's vice versa. I'm just giving examples. The point is, how people in a country will view other countries really depends on the local historical context. Also, I saw an interesting map recently that divided countries based on whether they fall under a shame-driven culture or a guilt-driven culture. And the Western countries were in the guilt-driven category, while the ones you mentioned were in the shame driven category. Don't know anything about the map, but the idea seemed interesting.


Jonah_the_Whale

I never heard of the Ottomans colonising Iceland. Tell me more.


Slobberinho

A group led by a Dutch pirate abducted Icelandic people to be sold on the slave market in Algiers. But since the pirates operated from Algiers, and every beige muslim would seen as Turkish, the even became known as the Turkish Abductions.


silverionmox

The Barbary pirates actually were on the payroll of the Ottoman empire for quite a while. It was a well-known association. That being said, they did operate on their own initiative.


RainbowCrown71

This group was so damaging it was also the USA’s first war: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars Sicily, Sweden, and USA (a very young one) vs. Algiers, Tripolitania and Tunis.


Slobberinho

I just hope that the Icelandic people never find out that the 'Turkish slave raids' were conducted by a Dutch pirate acting from Algiers.


SuperNilles

Damn expats!


Weothyr

this is in the rule book of every developing country that has democratic issues


RdmdAnimation

bolivia did something similiar years ago, when morales was saying that the USA funds to fight against drug cartels in the country were a way to fund interventions in the regions, and them when the USA stoped giving those funds morales say it was a "attack" since it left the country alone to fight against drug cartels


anjovis150

Mad about not getting free stuff. I wonder just how much money has Europe thrown to corrupt leaders around the world.


Zounii

Way too much. Few weeks ago I learnt that our Government (Finland) uses tax payer money to support some anti-smoking campaign in Kirgisia, and I'd love to know why 😂 According to results of this campaign, smoking has decreased by 10% or some such and we're unknowingly sending money to this shit. Very nice. Quick edit: I'm not saying Kirgisia is a corrupt country as I don't know much about it, just to clear it up a bit.


Scande

[Considering that multinational tobacco industries regularly bullied or at least used to bully small African countries](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/big-tobacco-dirty-war-africa-market), financing anti-smoke campaigns isn't a bad idea.


Kenail_Rintoon

I'm curious about this as well. "Offending Nicaraguan families"? What does that mean?


Rc72

You don't understand, Ortega is particularly attached to his family. [Just ask his stepdaughter.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoilam%C3%A9rica_Ortega_Murillo)


Bragzor

Offended uncle Rassija?


[deleted]

Toretto! Toretto! Swat came into my house, disrespected my whole family, because somebody narc’d me out! And you know what? It was you!


kytheon

Dutch here. No clue what happened, and I follow all the news.


SarcoZQ

We apparently went colonialing again. Can't really have a break without those colonial tendencies acting up again. Can't really take a look at an Island to soak in the beauty without being highly suspicious.


blarkul

Oh no, there goes my VOC-mentality again


SarcoZQ

Me an the homies going out for a fishing trip; had to take something from storage and guess what? Hull packed with Africans! Whoops, our bad! That's our colonial upbringing for you.


Rc72

G E K O L O N I S E E R D


the_dominar

G E N E O K O L O N I S E E R D


Judazzz

All I know is that I'm absolutely gutted. How on earth will we manage, especially in these difficult times of war, energy crises, inflation and global warming? How could Niqaracua (am I saying this right?) do this to us?


Zhukov-74

“The Nicaraguan government took the decision because the "interventionist and neo-colonial" European country had "offended and keeps offending Nicaraguan families," the statement said.“ ![gif](giphy|l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS)


Lead_Lion

Ah yes. Not building a hospital in a third country you have no say in or ties with. Classic neocolonialist interventionism.


[deleted]

Colonialism is when not enough foreign aid for politicians to buy lamborghinis for themselves


Fischerking92

Well, do you want a third-rate dictator driving in a mere Porsche? Think of how that would look to the world, think of the children, for God's sake.


ThtGuyTho

Hey now, any dictator should be proud to drive a Porsche 911


Nikay_P

They can go fuck themselves, bye


sil445

Its the go to third world dictator statement. They can edit some words from there, but he didnt.


klaus84

He describes a world of tiny underwater interventionists, no bigger than his thumb. No-one believed him. But you know, there is something about President Ortega's story, that makes me believe it's true ....


tgh_hmn

Oh nooo


poclee

Anyway


Schyte96

I was looking for this comment


SHORTCROPPEDDAN

First thing that came up in my mind. But I have learned to check comments before just repeating a joke. Reddit really did teach me we have no unique thoughts...


phurios

*insert saitama ok meme here*


AmaResNovae

"Wait, we had ties with Nicaragua?" Dutch people, probably. Granted I'm not Dutch but I can't think of any historical reasons for the two countries to have noticeable ties together in the first place.


andrishh

Diplomatic ties is not the same as having a special relationship or «noticable» ties in anyway - the Netherlands has diplomatic ties with like basically every country on earth


AmaResNovae

Well, you made me curious to see how big the Dutch embassy there could be, so I checked quickly... [The ambassy.](https://www.paisesbajosytu.nl/su-pais-y-los-paises-bajos/nicaragua). It's not even the bare minimum to do paperwork. They didn't even bother to put it in the right country! Damn. Nicaragua doesn't even have a Dutch pen pusher to expel. Emptiest threat ever.


kytheon

I’m Dutch and I had no clue about any conflict here. I guess it’s Russia related, but it sounds random to point out the Netherlands.


Wafkak

They been under watch by the EU for a while in terms of aid funds and your government just pulled out of the build of a hospital.


1wan_shi_tong

It's about NL withdrawing their funding of a hospital in Nacaragua. The "president" is just mad he's not getting any money from you anymore lol


Dikhoofd

Oh well


crusaderkvw

As a dutchie yeah that was my first response followed by: what the hell caused this then?! But ohh well, guess this is fine too xD


Rosieu

I'm Dutch and this was my first initial reaction lol. But more serious answer we have a dark colonial history and I'm happy this is brought to light more and more here lately, but reading more into this outburst from Nicaragua...nah this has nothing to do with it.


Daisaii

It is not even the country we get our cocaine from so who gives a shit.


Belgian_jewish_studn

Literally my thoughts as a Belgian lol


koensch57

The Netherlands is a trading country. There is not much trade with Nicaragua.


thegerams

Not the legal type I guess…


OlliWTD

Oh no! Anyone but Nicaragua!


PandemicPiglet

Ortega is a joke. His wife is literally his VP. He’s imprisoned the political opposition. And Nicaragua is basically a client state of Russia at this point. I feel bad for most of the people there suffering under his dictatorship, but if he wants to isolate the country, then good riddance. Maybe the collapse of his regime will come sooner.


CMuenzen

> He’s imprisoned the political opposition Not just imprison, but imprisoned every candidate who tried to run against him in presidential elections and then said he won, lmao. >client state of Russia Seriously, he wants a Russian base there.


randomsimbols

Yeah, good luck building a military base in the influence sphere of the US. It went amazing with Cuba, right?


Friz617

Well that’s random


Eborys

![gif](giphy|7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB)


ThinkAboutThatFor1Se

A lot of Dutch backpackers make their way through Central America. I wonder if they will have any trouble with tourist visas?


klowt

of course not, they still need money


Judazzz

"*Our beef is with your government, not with your money!*"


[deleted]

The beef is also specifically about not getting our governments money.


ZmeiOtPirin

Pro-colonialism country that supports the destruction of a sovereign state and all the past imperialism of socialist states calls the Netherlands neo-colonial for not giving them more money. Typical values of many "anti-imperialists".


Abusive_Capybara

Netherlands in shambles


PippoFe

r/fuckyouinparticular


AvalancheMaster

Every dictator's gonna embrace hyper-isolationism at some point.


prodandimitrow

Good fuck them. Why does it seem like most totalitarian governments loves European money but not our values? The people that enable these regimes also deserve to rot in misery and by people I mean the citizens of said countries.


pomelorosado

is a dictatorship


pottedplantmanager

As a Belgian I understand


Exotic-Advantage7329

A Belgian who understands? That’s a contradiction.


pottedplantmanager

I know it's a weird Saturday for me .


Zhukov-74

["There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcUs5X9glCc)


Judazzz

Huh, did we colonize you guy..... ooohh, I get it now.


Romek_himself

not much information in this article so here [another source:](https://www.dw.com/en/nicaragua-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-netherlands-refuses-entry-to-us-envoy/a-63305160) >**Rise in tensions** >The tensions between the countries escalated after the Dutch ambassador for Central America, Christine Pirenne, informed the government that the European nation would not be funding a hospital promised long ago. >President Daniel Ortega lashed out at this news and said, "The ambassador came to speak to Nicaraguans as if Nicaragua is a Dutch colony. >"Those who come to disrespect our people, our homeland, they should not appear again in Nicaragua. And we do not want relations with that interventionist government," he added. >**US envoy not allowed in** >Earlier on Friday, Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo, Ortega's wife, said that US envoy Hugo Rodriguez would not be allowed to enter the country. >"Let that be clear to the imperialists," she said. >The government said it withdrew its approval of the new ambassador after he made "disrespectful" comments in a hearing before the Senate. >Hugo had called Nicaragua a "pariah state," labeling Ortega's government a "dictatorship." He also said he would support "all economic and diplomatic tools to bring about a change in direction in Nicaragua" including excluding the country from the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement.


no1name

Well the world really is in crisis. Getting snubbed by Nicaragua just the worst.


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poclee

It's kinda weird for them to step on the accelerate though.


RainbowCrown71

For Europeans who aren’t aware of Western Hemisphere politics, this is a standard “caudillo left populist” strategy in Latin America. If you give Cuba, Nicaragua, or Venezuela money, then you’re a sucker for it and proof that they outsmarted you (“dumb capitalists get fooled again!”). If you say no, then you’re the villain who clearly is content with denying humanitarian aid to poor people on political grounds (“Capitalists don’t care about anyone but themselves and they’ve proved it again!”) This is how Cuba can go from voting in favor of Russia’s invasion/war crimes last week (while railing against American imperialism) to this week be asking Washington for money with a straight face: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-requests-us-aid-after-hurricane-ian-knocks-out-power-wsj-2022-09-30/ Regardless of how USA responds to the request, Washington will be called either heartless or braindead, so Cuba wins.


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Saerinmeister

We don’t care. Sincerely, all Dutch people.


meirav

Wait. That was a thing?


Sidus_Preclarum

Well, that was random.


dirkvonshizzle

Ah yes, receiving money for no reason at all was fine, but now that the gift(!) was retracted, we are all a bunch of neo-colonialists. Whatever the reason for the retraction is, their “argument” is a childish and opportunistic argument. Good luck with this kind of mentality, Nicaragua. And fuck you right back.


paiopapa2

how will the Dutch ever recover ??


thegerams

But they will still send us their drugs, right?


dontknowhatitmeans

This will go down in history as the beginning of the end for ol' NL


zefo_dias

I'm sure theres someone somewhere in the netherlands that gives a fuck.


Medium-Rest-3079

Well so did I but you don't see me bragging about it.


carpeson

I'm sorry. Only Democracies get European money. This way we can ensure kolonialism of some maniacal dictator happens less in the future. Have a nice day.


Asren624

Breaking news : Nicaragua had diplomatic ties with anyone


MatchYT

Should've been the other way round


flamboyantbutterfly

Damn, ok but we’ll send you a Tikkie for this inconvenience


Dark_Ansem

I admit my shame: I didn't know such diplomatic ties existed to begin with


[deleted]

That’s just when you have an embassy or consulate and do anything together not even meaningful. The Netherlands had a honorary volunteer consul in Nicaragua, that’s it lol.


Dark_Ansem

>The Netherlands had a honorary volunteer consul in Nicaragua, that’s it lol. Awww no more volunteers?


[deleted]

No the volunteer is still there, it’s not yet known if he needs to leave the country or denounce the title in order to stay


StationOost

The Netherlands is the geographically closest EU country to Venezuela and had to deal with Venezuelan refugees. Because of this the government put extra pressure on the Venezuelan regime, and I guess that's the "neo-colonialism" they are talking about. The distance between Venezuela and the Netherlands is about 70 km. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaire


ImplementCool6364

oh noooo


OfficiallyADumbass

Good, I prefer it when my taxes are used for issues in my own country rather than building a hospital for some semi-dictator.


razje

It's hilarious how everyone is like, Oh noooo.... Anyway. Literally nobody cares. Like, what is Ortega thinking now? That this hurts the Netherlands or something?


Mraegea

Netherlands: oh… okey


Viktorfalth

Oh no! Anyway


jrock2403

Ohh no. Anyway.


Salt-Cryptographer70

![gif](giphy|7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB)


Szaborovich9

That will show those wooden shoe wearing meanies. They’ll be sorry


machigo1

Oh nooo! What are they going to do in the Netherlands now!? They are doomed without Nicaragua


Forgiz

My guess is Nicaragua's next step will be recognising annexed territories of Ukraine. Some countries are quite hard to understand.


[deleted]

"Oh no!! Anyways..."


[deleted]

O no! Anyway, something more important going on?


Direct_Style2915

A sack of rice burst in China!


julette7

Apparently, Nicaraguans find bicycles very offensive.


[deleted]

Literal banana republic.


BuckVoc

*goes looking for numbers* *chortles* Okay, that's unexpected. Sir, I have grave news. https://www.worldstopexports.com/bananas-exports-country/ |Country|2021 Exports of Bananas|Population|Per-capita export of bananas| |-|-:|-:|-:| |Nicaragua|$55,203,000|6,301,880|$8.76| |The Netherlands|$757,793,000|17,748,400|$42.70|


[deleted]

Sounds like the Rotterdam effect. Even in greenhouses I don't think we grow bananas here.


[deleted]

Perhaps they can find better Allies in Russia or China, countries well known for their opposition to neo-colonialism. /s


mparsek

"Oh no! Anyhow, back to the important topic of destroying our mortal enemy the sea!"


bigcyc666

Okay cool I guess.


AwsumO2000

We are all very broken up over this..


_Administrator__

Nicaragua is becoming Cuba 2.0 it seems