The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo made official the departure of Iris Acuña Huete as Nicaragua’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Through Presidential Agreement No. 36-2023 published in La Gaceta No. 58 of this Wednesday, March 29, 2023, the removal of the Ortega diplomat was consummated.
Acuña Huete held the position in the island country since February 6, 2019, as stated in Presidential Agreement No. 22-2019. The departure of the ambassador was announced by Rosario Murillo on March 22, but it materialized a week later.
Murillo said that these are “movements that we have been making precisely so that our international relations, foreign relations cadres can rotate and develop diplomatic functions with more and more competence and experience.” Acuña Huete went on to “other diplomatic functions, without specifying which ones.
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This Wednesday, María Cecilia Argüello Rizo was also removed from her post at the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She had served as Head of the General Directorate for Europe since April 2018. This dismissal comes months after the expulsion of the European Union ambassador, Bettina Muscheidt, from Nicaragua.
La Gaceta also reported the resignation of Luis Humberto Guzmán as the President of the Board of Directors of the National Institute for the Promotion of Competition (Procompetencia), a position he had held since 2014, according to Presidential Agreement No. 76-2014. The resignation took place on March 27, as recorded in the Official State Gazette.
Nicaragua has made various diplomatic moves in recent weeks in Brazil, South Korea, Chile, Panama, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Several of those countries offered nationality to Nicaraguans declared stateless by the Ortega and Murillo regime. In some cases, the diplomatic relationship was reduced to business managers or consuls.
