The opposition organization in exile Nicaraguan Democratic Concertation (CDN-Monteverde) sent a letter to the member states of the Central American Integration System (SICA) denouncing that the constitutional reforms promoted by the dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo are “incompatible” with the principles democratic members of that organization, and at the same time they thank them for rejecting the candidacy of former Foreign Minister Denis Moncada for the General Secretary of the regional organization.
Monteverde thanks the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the countries that make up SICA who “have put the defense of the organization’s guiding principles first by demanding that the Ortega Murillo regime (to) present a new shortlist (of candidates for the General Secretariat) made up of “people who meet the requirements that the position demands.”
Last Thursday, November 28, the SICA chancellors, who make up the organization’s Council of Ministers, postponed a meeting in which the selection of the candidate for secretary general of the organization should be addressed, who was to come from a shortlist proposed by the dictatorial regime of Managua, headed by the former foreign minister and brigadier general in active retirement from the Army Denis Moncada Colindres, together with the Sandinista deputy Arling Patricia Alonso, already the head of the Ministry of the Family, Johanna Vanessa Flores.
The Governments of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic rejected the candidacies of the three political operators of the regime, arguing that they do not meet the requirements to occupy that position.
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The rejection made the dictators Ortega and Murillo burst into anger, who responded with a furious note, which, although signed by Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke, from the style and content it is clear that it was written by the vice-dictator Rosario Murillo.
“We have received your disrespectful and imposing joint note from today, November 28, 2024, which highlights your continuous, illegal and inappropriate blockade of Nicaragua, according to all the treaties and regulations that govern the Central American Integration System,” it says. the response of the Nicaraguan dictatorship.
Constitution attacks SICA principles, say opponents
After thanking the regional governments for rejecting the candidates of the Ortega-Murillo regime, CDN-Monteverde, in its letter, urges the Foreign Ministers of the region to “continue ensuring that the person who occupies the General Secretariat is a promoter of the integrationism and defend the purposes of SICA.
Likewise, the opposition group explains to the heads of diplomacy that the “new Constitution” that the dictators Ortega and Murillo already ordered to be approved in the first legislature “marks a turning point in national life and will have a regional and international impact, since it “Nicaragua adopted a new authoritarian constitutional model, which annulled the separation of the powers of the State and destroyed the essential checks and balances for a democratic system.”
The opposition that has been repressed with blood and fire, and whose members have been imprisoned, denationalized and exiled, reminds the democratic states that are members of SICA that the constitutional reforms imposed on the country by tyrants eliminate “a large part of the fundamental guarantees ».
Furthermore, they disappear political pluralism and create “a new security body (paramilitaries disguised as volunteer police) that subordinates civil order to partisan interests, guarantees dynastic succession and restricts freedom of expression and information to its minimum expression.”
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The reforms referred to by CDN-Monteverde also create a two-headed presidency, designed to make Murillo co-president and supreme head of the Army. It eliminates university autonomy, the prohibition of torture also disappears, it annuls the principle of innocence and extends the presidential term to six years, among other points that subject the people of Nicaragua to the oppression of a totalitarian and dynastic tyranny.
“The CDN considers that, by approving this new Constitution, the Ortega-Murillo regime excluded itself from SICA, because it repudiated the fundamental democratic principles of the Tegucigalpa Protocol and the Democratic Security Framework Treaty,” denounces the opposition organization.
Likewise, he warns that the new Magna Carta, which is popularly being called the “Chamuca constitution” due to its direct relationship with Rosario Murillo, “violates the democratic bases that should govern in the member states.”
For these reasons, CDN-Monteverde urges the Foreign Ministers of the region to prevent “authoritarian dictatorships” from being consolidated in the isthmus again.
