After the announcement of the expulsion of the mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) from Nicaragua, the withdrawal of its delegation from the regional entity and the untimely departure from the continental forum, the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo maintains a siege with members of the Directorate of Special Police Operations (DOEP), the OAS headquarters located in the Sierritas de Santo Domingo in front of the Archbishop’s Curia.
At dusk on Sunday, April 24, about eight DOEP officers, with weapons in hand, stationed themselves outside the OAS headquarters. In the place you can see two patrols of the same police entity. Police unit 1007 was parked at the entrance to the diplomatic delegation, preventing the entry or exit of any OAS vehicle.
After noon this Monday, April 25, the police device consisted of three armed agents and the same patrol stationed on the only access road to the property where the mission of the continental organization operates in the Nicaraguan capital.
After learning of the de facto seizure of the organization’s headquarters, the OAS General Secretariat stated on its website that “its offices, files, and documents enjoy the most absolute inviolability. Its violation by the Nicaraguan authorities makes them internationally responsible for its consequences.
The 19 Digital, the official website of the dictatorship, justified the regime’s action and assured that the police presence is to “protect the place where the local headquarters of the OAS worked.” In a statement from the Foreign Ministry, the head of that portfolio, the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, Denis Moncada, reported on the expulsion of the organization from the country “for being an instrument of intervention and domination of the United States, to promote coups d’états.”
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The former official of the Judiciary, Yader Morazán, explained that no member of the OAS can withdraw from the organization leaving pending accounts. “The OAS is not the park where you can leave whenever you want, because when you subscribe to that organization, you also voluntarily accept the existing rules, and then they become mandatory.”
Morazán pointed out that Nicaragua continues to be part of the OAS until it has fulfilled all its obligations and until the process of denouncing the organization’s Charter has been completed on November 19, 2023.
“The OAS will continue to enjoy within Nicaragua the legal capacity, privileges and immunities for the exercise of its functions and the fulfillment of its purposes, as provided for in Article 103 of the OAS Charter,” he said.
“The Ortega-Murillos being deranged, yesterday their personal guard only photographed themselves “guarding” the diplomatic headquarters and they did not violate the domicile that enjoys international protection. Perhaps they are so slimy! », Questioned the jurist.
