Daniel Ortega's regime closed the office of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Managua on Sunday and announced the departure of Nicaraguan representatives to that body, from which it had already announced their withdrawal in November 2021.
According to Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada, his country immediately stops participating in the OAS and withdraws credentials from its representatives in Washington. “Nor will this infamous agency, consequently, have offices in our country. Its local headquarters have been closed,” he added.
In a letter read through an official transmission, Moncada said that “as of this date” Nicaragua stops being part of “all the misleading mechanisms of this engendro, call them the Permanent Council, call them commissions, call themselves meetings, call themselves the Summit of the Americas”. “We will not have a presence in any of the instances of this diabolical Instrument of the so-called OAS,” he said.
Dictator Ortega, a 76-year-old former guerrilla in power since 2007, had announced at the end of last year Nicaragua's withdrawal from the OAS, which ignored his election for a fourth consecutive term, with his rivals and opponents imprisoned and accused of plotting against him.
However, according to the protocols, the exit had to take place within two years, in order for Nicaragua to complete the outstanding commitments it might have with the agency.
On March 23, the then permanent representative of Nicaragua to the OAS, Arturo McFields, surprised during his speech at a session of the permanent council, during which he called Ortega's administration a “dictatorship” and denounced the precarious conditions in which his opponents were detained.
“I can't understand the government's motives, but this withdrawal is made one month after my speech to the OAS,” McFields said Sunday, in conversation with AFP.
The OAS offices “have historically been in our country and were part of a historic process of pacification in Nicaragua. Offices representing the peace accords in Nicaragua have been closed. The government is closing a door to peace,” he added.
According to McFields, the OAS offices in Managua currently operated with basic administrative staff.
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