The surgeon-turned-diplomat, Alejandro José Solís Molina, was reinstated in his position as Nicaraguan ambassador to the Government of Cuba after he had been dismissed by Daniel Ortega just over a month ago. In this way, Solís Molina becomes the first official “pardoned” by the dictator.
Solís Molina is a surgeon. He graduated from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua and has a specialty in Public Health. His performance as a diplomat of the dictatorship began when Ortega appointed him extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Nicaragua in Cuba, through Presidential Agreement 89-2022, of May 25, 2022.
He was dismissed on May 17, through Presidential Agreement 56-2023. However, 34 days later, to the surprise of many, the dictator ordered the publication in the Official Gazette number 110 of Presidential Agreement 79-2023, which in its Article 1 orders the dismissal of doctor Solís Molina to be “rescinded”.
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In this way, the doctor turned diplomat became the first official, in the entire time of the Ortega government, to be pardoned. It is not the style of the dictator to recoil in an impeachment. The corrido, corrido stays, and more in the diplomatic corps, which is managed by the dictatorial couple at will, according to international affairs analysts have warned.
The Nicaraguan diplomatic headquarters in Havana is the one that has suffered the most changes. The Ortega regime has appointed five ambassadors there since he returned to power in 2007. Luis Cabrera, an Argentine journalist and former guerrilla who participated in the war against Somoza, served 14 years in office. He was ousted in 2021.
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Sidhartha Francisco Marín Araúz, was Cabera’s successor, but his diplomatic career in the Caribbean only lasted 11 days. On December 7, he was replaced by the retired Army colonel, Reynaldo del Carmen Lacayo Centeno, who did not last a month in that diplomatic chair.
The retired soldier was succeeded by Wilfredo Jerónimo Jarquín Lang, originally from Bluefields, in the South Caribbean. Jarquín’s appointment was canceled by Presidential Agreement 74-2022, published in the Gazette on May 12. He lasted less than four months in the position.
