The president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, said this Wednesday that he sees the possibility of appointing an ambassador to Nicaragua as distant due to the “deterioration” of the situation in that country after the expulsion of the representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS).
“We are nowhere near making a decision to change because circumstances have been deteriorating,” Chaves said at the press conference after the weekly Governing Council.
The Costa Rican president, who assumed power on May 8, assured that the Government continues to “view with concern the development of what is happening, particularly the expulsion of the Organization of American States.”
On April 4, one day after winning the elections, Chaves announced that his “inclination” was to “appoint an ambassador to Nicaragua” because they have “diplomatic relations” and are not at “war” and stated that he does not like ” the half measures” or “the positions to look pretty”.
“If we have to break diplomatic relations for reasons of merit, we break them, but not to be in the little game of having diplomatic relations and not having ambassadors,” Chaves declared on April 4.
For his part, Foreign Minister Arnoldo André Tinoco revealed on April 22 that he met with the current Nicaraguan ambassador in San José, Duilio Hernández, as a “sign of goodwill” and to “discuss bilateral issues.”
“In Nicaragua, as the president (Chaves) has announced, the intention is to appoint an ambassador at the right time. We are making the evaluations and consultations of the case to get there, ”said the appointed foreign minister to journalists that day.
However, the position of the Costa Rican government has changed since the expulsion of the OAS representation in Managua at the end of April.
The previous Government of Costa Rica (2018-2022), presided over by Carlos Alvarado, did not send an ambassador to Nicaragua and in various international forums has denounced human rights violations in that country and has advocated a return to democracy.
Costa Rica has strongly criticized the Nicaraguan government for imprisoning activists, journalists and presidential candidates and has said that the votes last November in which Daniel Ortega was re-elected were not clean or transparent.
