The government of President Daniel Ortega, in Nicaragua, changed its ambassador to Cuba on Thursday, who will become the fourth diplomat to hold this position in less than six months in the midst of a political crisis that the Central American country has been going through since 2018.
The most recent ambassador to be removed this week is Wilfredo Jerónimo Jarquín Lang, just appointed on January 6, according to a publication in The Gazette.
The Ortega government, which has not referred to the diplomatic changes in the allied country of Nicaragua, began to replace its representatives in Havana in December 2021, a month after the re-election of the president Daniel Ortega.
So far it has not been reported who will replace Lang in the position.
According to the former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Arturo McFields, the relationship between Havana and Managua, which has been historic, “is today hysterical” because, according to him, “Havana has asked for moderation in human rights to the “Ortega” regime.
Four months ago, retired Colonel Reynaldo Lacayo Centeno was also removed. He had replaced the advisory minister for Policies and International Affairs for the Presidency, Sidhartha Francisco Marín, who barely lasted eleven days in office.
Marín had in turn replaced Luis Cabrera González, who had been the Nicaraguan ambassador to Cuba since 2007 when Ortega returned to power.
Critics of the Nicaraguan president indicate that these changes in the diplomatic corps show a lack of “real strategy” in his mission and are rather due to “prizes or punishments.”
“It is a waste of opportunity that Nicaragua does not have a professional body. No one is safe there and whoever is there must reiterate their promise of unconditionality to the presidential couple, ”she criticized in statements to the voice of america opposition leader Ana Quiroz.
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