Talk about perfect timing. Having an American President who is predisposed to 3rd World rhetoric, Nicaragua ia about to take advantage, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega is set to hold a referendum. The goal is to seek 17 Billion for the United States as reparations for our support of the anti-Communist contras. Clearly, Ortega plans to take advantage Obama’s sympathetic view.

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega has proposed a referendum on whether to demand $17bn (£10bn) from the US for its role in his country’s civil war.

Mr Ortega was addressing supporters on the 32nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution.

In 1986, the world court ruled the US violated international law by backing the Contras against Mr Ortega’s Sandinista government.

But in 1990 the then Nicaraguan government dropped the claim.

A big crowd gathered in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, on Tuesday to celebrate the 1979 ousting of the country’s dictator Anastasio Somoza by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).

President Ortega used the event to propose that a referendum should be held to decide whether to pursue a claim for damages against the US government.

It would be “up to the Nicaraguan people” to decide “if the debt owed by the Yankee state” should be recovered, he said – a debt he put at $17bn.

Obama will probably pay him and even apologize. A normal President would tell Ortega, come and get it!