The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in its report “Nicaragua: Facts and Figures 2022 on the situation of human rights”, indicates that the international isolation of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo “deepened” with the expulsion and declaration of personas non grata of diplomatic representatives, international humanitarian organizations and multilateral organizations, as well as with the rupture of relations with a European State.
The outbursts of the regime have been based on the expulsion of diplomatic relations with countries that have demanded forceful actions from Nicaragua that reflect the return of democracy to the country.
The OHCHR indicates that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo did not appear for the examination of its periodic reports and constructive dialogue with the United Nations bodies.
In addition, it is reported that the dictatorship “did not collaborate with the Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture so that this mechanism visits Nicaragua in 2023, nor did it respond to the communications and concerns transmitted by the Special Procedures.”
Related news: Nicaraguan regime uses proximity to Russia as an “escape” in the face of international isolation
«Nicaragua has ignored the Group of Experts on Human Rights on Nicaragua created by the Human Rights Council through resolution 49/3 and has not complied with the recommendations and determinations of the human rights bodies of the inter-American system. In November, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights declared the State of Nicaragua in “permanent contempt”, he warns.
Ortega ordered the expulsion of the apostolic nuncio, Monsignor Waldemar Sommertag, Vatican ambassador in Managua; Bettina Muscheidt, ambassador of the European Union and head of the mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
He also withdrew the approval of the new ambassador designated by the United States; it broke relations with the Organization of American States (OAS) and confiscated its facilities in Managua; and also discontinued its bilateral relations with the Netherlands.
At the end of last year, the Latin American studies researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies of the United States Army War College, Evan Ellis, assured local media that the closeness of the Nicaraguan regime with Russia is an “escape” method against the international isolation imposed by the North American country and the European Union.
Russia is an old ally of Nicaragua that during the first Sandinista regime (1979-1990) provided Soviet weapons to the Nicaraguan Armed Forces.
