The government of Daniel Ortega suspended on Tuesday the favor granted recently to the ambassador of the European Union, Fernando Ponz, indicated the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry in a statement in which it called the diplomat “daring and insolent.”
Managua’s reaction occurred after a first release Issued by the European bloc on the eve of five years of the anti-government protests that began in Nicaragua on April 18, 2018 and that left more than 300 dead and thousands of exiles, according to international organizations.
The European Union, however, reiterated its willingness to support “all efforts aimed at a democratic, peaceful and negotiated solution to the protracted crisis” that this Central American country is experiencing.
But Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada pointed out that the European Union “ratified imperialist and colonialist positions”, for which he expressed his condemnation in this regard and canceled Ponz’s pleat.
Ortega had already expelled the EU ambassador
Previously, the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry suspended the placet of the US diplomat, Hugo Rodríguez, nominated by President Joe Biden to be Washington’s ambassador in Managua, after accusing him of “interference.”
There was also previously expelled the ambassador of the European UnionBettna Muscheidt, after calling her “interfering”.
The European Union argued at the time that “these hostile and unjustified actions will not only affect bilateral relations between Nicaragua and the EU and its Member States, but will also lead to greater international isolation of Nicaragua.”
Managua has branded the protests that arose in April 2018 in Nicaragua as an attempted coup sponsored by the US and the EU; However, this narrative has been classified as false by human rights organizations that accuse Ortega of “establishing a dictatorship.”
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