Although he was appointed alternate representative of Nicaragua in the Organization of American States (OAS), Iván Lara, is Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for legal affairs of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo and will remain in office until the couple so decides. dictatorial.
Lara has experience in the Nicaraguan foreign service since Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2007. He held the position of Nicaraguan Criminal Justice Attorney during the government of President Enrique Bolaños (2002-2007).
He was involved in the investigations and charges for fraud, embezzlement of public funds, criminal association and money laundering against the former president of Nicaragua Arnoldo Alemán and the former director of the General Directorate of Revenue (DGI), Byron Jerez.
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While Iván Lara worked in the Attorney General’s Office, he promoted eight corruption trials against Byron Jerez, former director of the DGI and close collaborator of former President Alemán. Now Lara will be second in command at the OAS and will work alongside Orlando Tardencilla, the newly appointed permanent representative of the regime.
Tardencilla has had a cumbersome path to reach the highest representation of the dictatorship before the OAS, now it will be up to her to continue the process of leaving the country of the continental organization that was initiated by the then ambassador Arturo McFields, the same one who denounced the crimes of the dictatorship.
Ortega tried to impose Tardencilla as secretary general of the Central American Integration System (SICA), but the member countries refused to choose the dictator’s emissary and to date the regional organization continues without a maximum representative.
The new ambassador, without any experience in diplomacy, was appointed permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) in December 2021, less than three months later he was stripped of his position, also the Swiss consulate and the position ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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Fourteen days later, the regime rewarded him by appointing him Daniel Ortega’s advisor for international policies and relations, and this Monday, April 4, he was appointed to represent the dictatorship before the OAS.
The Ortega official is a lawyer and notary public, three times a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the National Assembly: from 1985 to 1990, and two consecutive periods between 1997 and 2007, a member of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) since 2012.
He was also a Sandinista combatant who joined the Salvadoran guerrilla in 1980, was captured at the beginning of 1981, and after a year in prison, subjected to torture, he was sent to the United States in order to testify that his presence in El Salvador was evidence of a Cuban aid plan for the Salvadoran guerrillas.
