We're abandoning God for the Devil," said Larry Ferrey, a 38-year-old hotel worker in Managua.
Nicaraguan newspapers also noted that on his visit last week, Ahmadinejad did not answer Nicaragua's requests to write off debts to the Islamic Republic of over $160 million.
During his speech Tuesday, Ortega hailed Iran as a great civilization and urged Israel, which Ahmadinejad once said should be wiped off the map, to destroy its nuclear weapons, saying they were blocking peace in the Middle East.
That display came just days after the U.S. government said it was making it "absolutely clear to countries around the world that now is not the time to be deepening ties, not security ties, not economic ties, with Iran."
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