The Ortega regime made the first moves in its diplomatic corps in 2023, highlighting the removal of its ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Ethiopia, Zoila Müller Goff.
Through the presidential agreement 03-2023, published in La Gaceta, Official State Gazette, on Wednesday, January 11, the appointment of Müller Goff as head of mission to the European Union (EU) and the European Atomic Energy Community was annulled.
Presidential agreement 04-2023, published in the same edition of La Gaceta, also formalizes the departure of Müller Goff as Nicaragua’s plenipotentiary and concurrent ambassador to Ethiopia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed in the same edition of La Gaceta, the ministerial agreement 03-2023, in which it reported the termination of functions of Müller Goff as counselor minister in consular functions before Belgium.
Ambassador declared “non grata” by the European Union
On October 10, 2022, Müller Goff was declared “non grata” by the European Union, as a reciprocal response from Brussels, to the decision of the authorities of the Ortega dictatorship to expel the EU ambassador and representative of the Netherlands in Nicaragua, Bettina Muscheidt.
However, Müller Goff was still in Brussels due to his role as direct diplomatic representative to Belgium, a country that had not yet made any unilateral decision.
On September 28, 2022, Muscheidt was declared “non grata” by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo and had to leave Nicaragua under accusations of interference.
Müller Goff was appointed to the position by the Daniel Ortega regime in June 2022, according to presidential agreement 92-2022, in which she is designated as representative to the EU and the European Atomic Energy Community.
The decision to declare it “non grata” was taken at the request of the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrell, who had already described the expulsion of Ambassador Muscheidt and the rupture of diplomatic relations as “hostile actions”. of Nicaragua with the Netherlands.
“The EU considers Nicaragua’s decision unjustified,” said the statement released by Borrell’s spokesman, Peter Stano, in which they reaffirmed the European Union’s commitment to the Nicaraguan people and the defense of democracy, the rule of law and the human rights.
Ortega also withdraws his ambassador from Chile
Other movements in the diplomatic corps of the dictatorship announced in La Gaceta this Wednesday was the presidential agreement 01-2023, through which the appointment of Lilliam del Carmen Méndez Torres, in the position of ambassador plenipotentiary to Chile, is annulled.
The Government of Chilean President Gabriel Boric who has emerged as the main exponent of the so-called democratic left in Latin America, has maintained an openly critical position against the violations of human rights by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Boric has been a constant voice in Demand for the release of political prisoners of the Ortega dictatorship, which has even led him to be attacked by totalitarian regimes such as Venezuela, whose dictator, Nicolás Maduro, called him the representative of a “cowardly left”, during his speech at the last ALBA summit, held in December 2022 in Cuba.
The Ortega regime announced the appointment of Gadiel Francisco Arce Mairena to the position of counselor minister with consular functions at the Nicaraguan embassy in Chile, and thus be in charge of diplomatic representation to this South American country.
For this, through the ministerial agreement of the Foreign Ministry 01-2023, it canceled the appointment of Arce Mairena in the position of counselor minister with consular functions at the Nicaraguan embassy in Peru.
Finally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also announced the appointment of Lisandra Marina Gutiérrez Torres as first secretary of the Permanent Mission of Nicaragua to the United Nations.
