Daniel Ortega removed Michael Campbell Hooker, who had held this position since January 2021, from his position as Nicaraguan ambassador to the Indian government. The official was also removed from his position as alternate representative to the Organization of American States (OAS). .
According to presidential agreement number 152-2022 published in the official gazette The Gazette This Thursday, Ortega ordered a day earlier, on October 26, “to rescind the appointments of comrade Michael René Campbell Hooker, as: extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the Government of the Republic of India based in the city of New Delhi contained in the presidential agreement 04-2021».
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In the same publication, the regime ordered his dismissal as “alternate representative of the Republic of Nicaragua, with the rank of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the Organization of American States, contained in presidential agreement 181-2021, dated October 18, year 2021».
Ortega also previously removed Francisco Campbell Hooker, father of Michael Campbell, who held the position of Nicaragua’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS). The faithful to the dictatorship is also the Nicaraguan ambassador in Washington and the former diplomatic position had been assigned to him after the complaint by Arturo McFields before the Permanent Council of the continental organization.
Campbell is the brother of Lumberto Campbell, a magistrate and former vice president of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE). The embassy in Washington had been run by an entire family, the Campbell Hookers. In September 2019, Ortega appointed Miriam Hooker, wife of Francisco Campbell, as chargé d’affaires and consul general, he also appointed Mabel Leilani Campbell Hooker, daughter of the Nicaraguan ambassador in Washington, as press and culture attaché.
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Since Ortega returned to power in 2007, he has promoted and promoted nepotism in different public institutions, placing not only his children and wives, but also his close collaborators in key positions, the Campbell Hooker family has been the clear example of this.
This dismissal of Campbell before the OAS occurs six months after the dictatorship’s decision to break relations with the organization, which it announced after ordering the police assault on the organization’s headquarters in Managua.
