The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accused diplomat Hugo Rodríguez, nominated by US President Joe Biden for ambassador to Nicaragua, of “interfering” and of “getting involved in national issues” on Thursday.
Through the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, the ruling party reported that “the approval granted to the applicant” Hugo Rodríguez, as US ambassador in Managua.
The letter was read by Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada, who pointed out that Rodríguez, “in a confirmation hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made interfering and disrespectful statements against our country.”
The Nicaraguan foreign minister said that “the Ambassador or candidate for Ambassador, Hugo Rodríguez, cannot get involved in national issues that are specific to Nicaraguans, much less disrespect, offend, humiliate, threaten, play a leading role or be a factor of interference, interventionism in the internal affairs of our country.
President Biden nominated Rodríguez as US ambassador to Nicaragua in early May. The nomination had to be confirmed by the US Senate.
But Moncada’s statements change the panorama.
The position of Washington’s ambassador in Managua has been represented by the diplomat Kevin Sullivan since 2018, the year in which the protests against Ortega broke out.
Ortega has also attacked Sullivan on other occasions for the critical position of the United States against his administration, which has imposed a number of sanctions on him for human rights violations.
In October 2021, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Ortega asked Sullivan to cease “his covert attacks” and said that it was “an example of the continuous, perverse, detestable invasive interference of the United States” in Nicaragua.
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