The Government of Mexico called its ambassador to Nicaragua, Gustavo Alonso Cabrera, to consult for his “concerns” regarding the elections in which President Daniel Ortega was re-elected without political competition, for a fourth consecutive term and the second with his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo.
The information released this weekend by various Mexican media indicates that the Andrés Manuel López Obrador administration has already told the Ortega government its opinion regarding the electoral process carried out on November 7.
Also, the ambassador of Mexico to the Organization of American States (OAS), Luz Elena Baños, said last week before that regional body that her country “based on its constitutional mandate to promote, protect and respect human rights, has We have communicated to the Government of Nicaragua our concerns about the political process carried out on November 7 and, especially, regarding freedom of expression and the political participation of its citizens ”.
According to the Mexican press, the diplomat explained that said concern “led to a call for consultations from our accredited ambassador in that country (Nicaragua).” In addition, he stressed that his country “defends and believes in representative democracy, the foundation of our hemispheric organization.”
Mexico is one of the seven OAS states that last Friday they abstained from voting for the resolution declaring the elections held in Nicaragua “illegitimate”, a document that was approved with the favorable vote of 25 countries in the region.
The OAS foreign ministers established a period of 18 days for the Permanent Council to carry out a “collective assessment” of the situation in Nicaragua, “in accordance with the OAS Charter and the Inter-American Democratic Charter”, and that it “take appropriate appropriate actions ”. Both approaches are part of the procedures established in the body’s Charter for the suspension of a member state after it has been shown that the democratic order was broken in it.
On June 21, Mexico and Argentina called their ambassadors in Nicaragua, Gustavo Cabrera Rodríguez and Mateo Daniel Capitanich, respectively, to consult them on “the worrying political-legal actions carried out by the Nicaraguan government,” according to a joint official statement.
Last October, both countries abstained from voting for an OAS resolution on the release of political prisoners in Nicaragua. The arguments that justified their abstention were: the non-intervention of the internal affairs of other states and the defense of dialogue, a scenario that in the case of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo the vast majority of the international community considers unfeasible in the short term. .
However, last Friday the Government of Argentina took a turn in its foreign policy towards Nicaragua and voted in favor of the resolution that declares voting in this country illegitimate.
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