The delegation of Antigua and Barbuda requested before the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), to hold an extraordinary session, next Friday, August 12, to analyze the political and human rights crisis in Nicaragua.
Antigua and Barbuda’s request was supported by the delegations of Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, the United States and Uruguay.
The request is made to address in said extraordinary session “a draft resolution on the situation in Nicaragua that will be presented shortly to be distributed in all the member states” of the regional organization.
The last time the OAS Permanent Council addressed the crisis in Nicaragua was May 13, 2022as a result of the occupation military manual of the office of the regional organization in Managua ordered by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The OAS office occupancy In Nicaragua, it happened on the afternoon of Sunday, April 24, minutes after Foreign Minister Denis Moncada informed the General Secretariat of the regional organization and Nicaraguan society that the Ortega government decided to “cancel and close” the OAS offices in Managua.
Last Resolution
On May 13, the Permanent Council approved a resolution condemning the occupation of its offices in Nicaragua and demanding that the State of Nicaragua restitute them.
The resolution was read by the permanent representative of Antigua and Barbuda, Ambassador Ronald Michael Sanders, and was supported by 29 delegations, including: Canada, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, United States, Grenada, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Mexico and Argentina.
There were no votes against, but the delegations of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Honduras and El Salvador they abstained from voting. In addition, the representations of Bolivia and Nicaragua were absent.
The resolution deplored “the violation of the inviolability of the organization’s archives,” and stressed that “the immunity of its assets be fully respected while they remain in Nicaragua” and required that the use of the premises seized by the Ortega government be restored. .
Called President Petro
The former ambassador of the regime to the OAS, Arturo McFields, Through his Twitter account, he spoke about this request from Antigua and Barbuda, pointing out that “human rights are not from the left, nor from the right. We invite President Gustavo Petro to support”.
#THE LAST Antigua and Barbuda with the support of Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, the United States and Uruguay request the OAS Special Session on Nicaragua August 12. Human rights are not left or right We invite Pdt. @petrogustavo support pic.twitter.com/R4yTSOfA7U
– Arturo McFields Yescas (@ArturoMcfields) August 8, 2022
Leftist Gustavo Petro was sworn in this Sunday, August 7, as president of Colombia, a position he came to succeed Iván Duque.
Despite his ideology, Petro has questioned the repression and political violence of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. In his first interview as president-elect to the Colombian magazine CAMBIO, he mentioned that in Nicaragua there is an authoritarian drift which has translated into a climate of “repression against opponents and political prisoners.
What you are saying is that if there is no democratic valve to process that disagreement, we are going to go towards violence? Petro was asked in that interview.
“Explodes. We’re looking at Ecuador, I can’t get too much into that anymore, but it’s an explosion there again. We saw it in Chile. Chile is processing this in a peaceful and democratic way, we have to see what happens next. In some of these processes anomalies have emerged trying to take them to the past. So, repressions on opponents, political prisoners. Nicaragua, for example. Those who are imprisoned in Nicaragua, and here I am once again in a shirt of eleven yards, are the ones who made the revolution against Somoza“, answered.
CHANGE: “And that they were comrades-in-arms of Ortega, who is now persecuting them”…
“And that they were our friends and are in prison. And because? Well, because there are some drifts that are no longer properly towards democracy and that must be avoided.Petro added in the interview.
