The president of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) and permanent representative of the Dominican Republic, Josué Fiallo, convened a virtual extraordinary session to be done next Monday, November 29 2:30 p.m. Washington time.
The call was made at the request of the delegations of Chile and Canada, “in order to carry out an immediate collective evaluation of the situation in Nicaragua in accordance with the OAS Charter and the Inter-American Democratic Charter”, in compliance with the resolution “ The situation in Nicaragua ”adopted on November 12 at the 51st General Assembly, held virtually.
According to the order of business, the collective evaluation on Nicaragua will be preceded by presentations by: Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Antonia Urrejola Noguera, president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the OAS.
On November 9, Almagro published a report prepared by the General Secretariat for the Strengthening Democracy of the OAS, which proposes to the international community “to demand the annulment” of the Nicaraguan votes “and to call for the celebration of a new electoral process.”
The departure from Nicaragua
The latest OAS resolution on Nicaragua, approved by 25 member countries, declares the November 7 votes “without legitimacy”, in which the Sandinista leader was re-elected for the fourth consecutive time, without political competition and without democratic guarantees.
Although the OAS foreign ministers established November 30 as the deadline for the Permanent Council to carry out a “collective appreciation” the situation in the country and “take the appropriate actions”, the Daniel Ortega regime came forward on November 19 denouncing Article 143 of the OAS Charter and began the process of leaving Nicaragua from the regional body.
The regime alleges that the decision to withdraw from the OAS It is due to the constant “interference attitudes” of the regional body, due to the resolutions referring to the crisis in Nicaragua in which it has condemned the outrages of the Ortega regime.
Despite the fact that Nicaragua announced its departure from the body, it would be official and effective until November 2023, since the process lasts two years, for which they can suspend it before the end of that period. In addition, during this period, the Government must comply with all its political and financial obligations with the regional body.
Ortega is isolating the country
This week, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court) declared the State of Nicaragua “in contempt”, for failing to comply with the provisional measures of that court in favor of 21 political prisoners and requested the intervention of the General Assembly of the OAS to assess the situation.
The former Secretary General of the OAS, between 2005 and 2015, Jose Miguel Insulzahe said in an interview on the show This week that with Nicaragua’s departure from the OAS, announced by Foreign Minister Denis Moncada, or its eventual suspension by a Special General Assembly, “Daniel Ortega has managed to completely isolate Nicaragua, and that is a drama for a country that, finally, is one of the most backward in Latin America ”.
Insulza warned that, despite the isolation, “there are no forms of direct intervention. Government changes cannot be made from outside; the famous regime change has to take place inside Nicaragua ”.
