For the international political analyst, Carlos Murillo, the decision of the United States Government to exclude Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas “is a very serious mistake by the (Joseph) Biden administration” because by not inviting Daniel Ortega “it does not change the opinion that the country has on those governments and regimes, would rather allow it to transmit a message of defense of democracy and respect for human rights.
Murillo explained to Article 66 that there is a “contradiction” on the part of the US administration because it has just nominated a new ambassador for Nicaragua “and that means maintaining a level of dialogue and then it goes and excludes Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas.” “There is a contradiction there,” said the Costa Rican expert.
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According to the opposition María Laura Alvarado, a member of the Political Council of the Blue and White National Unity (Unab), the exclusion of Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba from the event sends a key message. “Not only is the United States exerting pressure; but that the rest of the Latin American democracies are not willing to share a space with a dictatorship that violates human rights », she declared.
Murillo and Alvarado agree that Washington’s decision is due to the fact that the Ortega and Murillo regime “is a dictatorship that violates human rights, that has no democratic basis of legitimacy and legality.” “So, for Washington that justifies the exclusion,” Murillo said.
The opposition and former liberal deputy, Eliseo Núñez, considered that the non-invitation of Ortega is due to the fact that the Managua regime has become a “pariah” and interpreted his exclusion as a “moral condemnation.” In addition, the country will not participate in the economic agreements made at the Summit.
“This decision is one more step towards the necessary pressure against the regime. The regime knows that being excluded from participating in the Summit of the Americas, although they want to minimize it, they know that they miss out on being part of the dialogues that will take place in the event,” added Alvarado.
The implications
The analyst explained that the exclusion of Nicaragua and other dictatorships on the continent could affect the Summit of the Americas and cause “some countries to join, and it already seems that what they are doing (such as Mexico and Bolivia) indicating that they are not going to attend to the Summit and that the Summit is a failure’.
“Beyond that diplomatic part, there are really no greater repercussions than those that already exist. The economic and diplomatic sanctions will be maintained for the violations of international law that Nicaragua has made with the seizure of the OAS headquarters, “he said.
The regime “doesn’t care what the US decides.
Murillo stated that the exclusion of the Managua regime from the Summit of the Americas will not have any repercussions because Ortega and Murillo “are not interested in what the United States decides beyond what affects the family assets of the corporation that is the regime.” and that keeps Nicaragua and its economy captured.
“At the moment that the United States and the countries of the European Union can really prevent that Ortega-Murillo mega-corporation and its business partners from continuing to operate, if I would start to worry; but as long as it does not threaten the non-regular operation of that corporation, there will be no major change, ”concluded the expert.
