Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega canceled the appointment of retired colonel Reynaldo del Carmen Lacayo Centeno as his new ambassador to Cuba, according to the Official Gazette La Gaceta. Instead he was placed in office Wilfredo Jerónimo Jarquín Lang.
Through a presidential agreement, the president decided to “annul the appointment” of the retired military officer in the position of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the Government of Cuba. Later, in another presidential agreement published in the Gazette this Thursday, the appointment of Jarquín Lang was ratified.
“This agreement takes effect as of its publication” in La Gaceta, said the president, who did not explain the reasons he had for annulling the appointment of the new ambassador in Havana, a position he had assumed on December 7 last. .
Lacayo Centeno, who was Chief of Staff of the IV Military Command and military attaché in Mexico, had replaced the presidential advisory minister for policies and international affairs, Sidhartha Francisco Marín Aráuz, who only lasted 11 days.
Marín Aráuz, who has been Nicaraguan’s permanent representative to the UN and ambassador to Ecuador, had replaced, on November 26, the Nicaraguan nationalized Argentine journalist Luis Cabrera González.
Cabrera González was the Nicaraguan ambassador to Havana since 2007, when Ortega returned to power and reestablished diplomatic relations with Cuba.
New Minister of Education
In the same Gazette of this Thursday, the agreement 226-2021 is announced in which it is reported that the appointment of
Miriam Soledad Raudez Rodríguez andn the position of Minister of Education. Instead, she was appointed to the position Lilliam Esperanza Herrera Moreno.
Ortega also annulled the appointment of Leyla de Jesús Cisneros Vega to the position of Consul General of Nicaragua in Miami, and in his place appointed Luis Alberto Martínez Noguera, who had already held that position.
Likewise, Ortega ratified the retired Commissioner General Juan Ramón Gámez Morales as his new ambassador in Guatemala, who was previously in Honduras.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accepted the resignation of Mariana Eugenia Silva Amador as second secretary of the Permanent Mission of Nicaragua to the Organization of American States (OAS).
Nicaraguan diplomatic movements face the new mandate that Ortega will assume on January 10, after being re-elected for the fourth consecutive term in questioned unopposed votes.
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