The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, extended his congratulations to the Nicaraguan ambassador, Arturo Mcfields, who presented to the organization the situation of political prisoners and the state repression against public servants under the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
“We value the courage of the Nicaraguan ambassador, Arturo McFields Yescas, and his commitment to the values of the OAS. This is the ethically correct position,” Almagro said in a tweet attached to the statements of the Nicaraguan representative before the organization’s Permanent Council.
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The ambassador spoke on behalf of “more than 177 political prisoners and more than 350 people who have lost their lives since 2018. I speak on behalf of the thousands of public servants at all levels, civil and military, of those who today are forced by the Nicaraguan regime to pretend to fill vacancies and repeat slogans, because if they don’t they lose their jobs,” Mcfields said in a surprising statement.
On the other hand, the deputy chief of mission of the Permanent Mission of the United States to the OAS, Bradley Freden, also joined in thanking the diplomat for “resigning his position as ambassador of Nicaragua in a speech denouncing the history of violations of human rights of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, stating that he could no longer support the regime.
Opposition organizations also applauded the ambassador’s denunciation, stating that this action will encourage more officials to abandon their fear. “We salute the brave step that the ambassador has taken. His courage will inspire more so that the majority of the officials who are today hostages of the Daniel Ortega dictatorship can free themselves from so much humiliation, extortion, blackmail and violence,” the Civic Alliance wrote on its Twitter account.
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The Nicaraguan University Alliance (AUN) hopes that “more officials of the dictatorship will dare to abandon fear and denounce the crimes of this nefarious regime.”
Mcfields was appointed press attaché at the Nicaraguan embassy in the United States in 2011. On November 5, 2021, two days before the electoral farce, in which Ortega sought five more years in power. He worked as a reporter for the newspaper La Prensa and Canal 12 de Televisión. On Christmas 2006, when Ortega had already been elected as president in the voting that year, he published a report on how the Ortega Murillo family spent the festivities.
