The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, put the writer and journalist at the head of the Mexican embassy in Nicaragua William Zamora, who will return to this Central American country after having been a war correspondent in the eighties, and witnessing the fall of dictator Anastasio Somoza, in 1979.
Zamora reinstates Gustavo Alonso Cabrera, who was appointed in April 2021 and sacked at the end of the year, as ambassador. However, the López Obrador Administration never clarified the reasons why Cabrera was removed from the embassy in Nicaragua. On January 10, the Mexican president stated that the position was vacant.
Zamora’s appointment is part of the renewal of 16 positions in the Mexican Foreign Ministry. Portfolio in which López Obrador appointed several people without a diplomatic career path, according to the Mexican press.
The new ambassador of Mexico was war correspondent in Nicaragua during the early years of the Sandinista Revolution, during which time he also covered the war in El Salvador.
Zamora is the author of books such as Goebbels vs. Hugo Chavez, published in 2011, where he attacks the ideology of the intellectual Enrique Krauze, and compares some criticisms against Chávez, with those received by López Obrador in 2006. Another book of his authorship is The Conasupo Case: radioactive milk (1997), about one of the most notorious scandals of the PRI, which consisted of the public distribution of milk contaminated with feces to the most popular classes in the nineties.
Zamora is also coordinator of the Coyoacán Citizen Observatory, made up of journalists, writers, intellectuals, artists and scientists, from where neoliberalism, violence and insecurity are criticized.
relations between countries
The new Mexican ambassador will land in Nicaragua in a tense political context, since President Daniel Ortega has minimal international recognition, for having been re-elected for a fourth consecutive presidential term after imprisoning all the presidential candidates.
On January 10, the president of Mexico was “Surprised” upon hearing the news that no government official would attend the “self-investiture” of Ortega, a situation that he considered “unwise”. DAt the last minute, he sent the head of the Foreign Ministry at the Mexican embassy in Nicaragua, Ramiro Ayala.
Mexico together with: Honduras, Bolivia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Saint Lucia and Belize, were the eight nations that, on November 12, abstained from voting for a resolution of the Organization of American States (OAS) which determined that the Nicaraguan elections “were not free, fair or transparent and do not have democratic legitimacy.”
The day after the OAS session, it was learned that the Government of Mexico he called his then-ambassador for consultations in Nicaragua, Gustavo Alonso Cabrera, for his “concerns” regarding the elections held in this Central American country. According to Mexican media reports, the López Obrador administration expressed its opinion regarding the process to the Ortega government.
Despite criticism from the hemispheric community, Mexico supports the Ortega regime. On December 8, the López Obrado government abstained from voting at the OAS, for a resolution that urged the Nicaraguan president to allow the entry of a diplomatic mission to start a dialogue on electoral reforms and the calling of new elections. In addition, during the assembly it was established that the Sandinista regime does not comply with the commitments of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
