The Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, celebrated this Thursday, August 11, the election of the Nicaraguan Werner Isaac Vargas Torres as secretary general of the Central American Integration System (SICA). Ortega’s “file” will be in office for the next four years, with which his period will end in 2026.
“We have heard the beautiful words of Dr. Werner Vargas who has been elected by all the Central American presidents as the new general secretary of SICA,” said the deputy dictator.
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He emphasized that it is Nicaragua’s right to be in the secretariat of the organization “and it fills us with pride to be able to represent paths of union and prosperity for our Central America, because that is what we all want and need, to work for the good and peace of our peoples.” in brotherly union.
«It is the will of God that ignites the colors, the vigor, the love of the entire Central American homeland; And in this blessed and always free and full of love Nicaragua, we will put our grain of sand to call each other every day the Central American peoples (…) to work for the well-being, for the joy that the peoples of this waist of our America deserve, “he added. The First Lady.
The spokeswoman for the Nicaraguan regime described the election of Vargas as a special and historic day, “the day of the beginning of all efforts towards Central American union…”.
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“In this context, we are directing a note from our commander — the dictator Daniel Ortega — in gratitude and recognition and commitment to the presidents and foreign ministers of Central America and the Central American peoples,” he stressed.
Who is Werner Vargas?
The one chosen by Ortega is an official little known in Nicaragua, because almost his entire career has been at the Central American regional service. Before the regime came to power, Vargas was already working as an advisor to the Central American Parliament.
The new general secretary of SICA is a lawyer, graduated from the National Autonomous University of León (UNAN-León), he is a specialist in Human Rights and Public International Law with an emphasis on Regional Integration with a degree from the San Carlos University of Guatemala. In addition, he has a Master’s degree in Media Policy, Maps and Tools for a new citizenship, Society, State and Communication from the Complutense University of Spain.
For the countries of the region, it is “urgent” to rehabilitate SICA in order to execute the international cooperation funds that are stalled. In addition, they recall that the general secretary of SICA is an administrative official, who is not autonomous in his actions, but rather responds to the member states and executes and coordinates the decisions and mandates that derive from the Meetings of Presidents, Councils of Ministers and Committee Executive.
Before this election, former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Arturo McFields, lamented the decision of the Central American presidents and assured that with this action “they make fun of the harassment of religious leaders, they laugh at the death of 350 people and they give the Ortega dictatorship the general secretary of SICA».
