The administration of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continues to make changes with their appointees abroad. On this occasion, the regime dismissed Sidhartha Francisco Marín Arauz from his position as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Nicaragua to Honduras.
Through presidential agreement 107-2023, published in The GazetteOrtega annulled the appointment of Marín Aráuz as his representative in Tegucigalpa, where he remained for a little over a year.
The Ortega dictatorship decided to leave its diplomatic delegation in Honduras without its highest representative and reduce bilateral relations to a “counselor minister with consular functions.” Ministerial agreement 25-2023, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, appoints Iris Audelly Acuna Huete in the position of counselor minister at the Nicaraguan embassy in that country.
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The new appointment of the Ortega official comes almost three months after the regime dismissed her as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Nicaragua to the Dominican Republic, for which she had been appointed on February 21, 2019.
For his part, Sidhartha Francisco Marín Aráuz held the diplomatic position in the northern neighboring country since May 12, 2022, as stated in the presidential agreement 80-2022.
As a diplomat, he has also served as the permanent representative of Nicaragua, with the rank of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador, before the United Nations (UN). He was ambassador of Managua in Ecuador, cultural attaché with consular functions in Peru, concurrent in Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay. He is also in charge of political, protocol and commercial issues.
Through presidential agreement 108-2023, Ortega also made official this Thursday, July 6, the appointment of Walter Antonio Meza Zambrana as Consul General in Honduras.
The Ortega diplomat was dismissed on June 2, 2023 as counselor minister with consular functions in the Dominican Republic, a position he had held since February 2019.
Vice President Rosario Murillo has stated that these movements are due to the development and competence of diplomats, without giving more details of the changes they have made in recent months.
