The Ortega regime canceled the appointment of Francisco Campbell Hooker as Nicaragua’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS). Campbell is also the Nicaraguan ambassador in Washington and the new diplomatic position had been assigned to him after the complaint by Arturo McFields before the Permanent Council of the continental organization.
The delivery of Campbell’s credentials was scheduled for last Friday, April 1, according to an invitation from the protocol office of the OAS General Secretariat held by Article 66but surprisingly the event was canceled for no reason.
The former ambassador to the OAS, Arturo McFields, pointed out this morning on his Twitter account that Nicaragua’s seat on the organization’s website was empty and that “there is a huge moral debacle and now it is greater.” “Watch out for La Gaceta,” McFields warned.
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Campbell’s appointment didn’t even give him time to present his credentials to Luis Almagro. After McFields’ denunciation, the regime rushed to discredit the statements of Ortega’s rebel ambassador and assured that his permanent representative was Campbell, but his appointment was not accredited before the continental body or published in La Gaceta, Official Gazette.
Campbell is the brother of Lumberto Campbell, a magistrate and former vice president of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE). The embassy in Washington is run by an entire family, the Campbell Hookers. Francisco Campbell, holds the position of ambassador; his wife, Miriam Hooker, is the consul general; Their daughter, Mabel Leilani Campbell Hooker, is a press attaché and another of her sons, Michael René Campbell Hooker, is Nicaragua’s alternate representative to the OAS.
new representative
McFields’ forecasts turned out to be true and Ortega appointed Orlando Tardencilla as his new emissary to the OAS, according to presidential agreement 58-2022 published in La Gaceta, Official Gazette, on April 4, 2022.
Ortega’s new ambassador is a presidential adviser, before he was rejected as secretary general of the Central American Integration System (SICA), he was appointed ambassador to the United Nations Organization (UN), ambassador to Switzerland, then he was removed from all those positions and later Appointed adviser to Ortega.
Diplomatic coups
March left the Ortega-Murillo family a “low blow” at the international level. Its own delegates denounced the State of Nicaragua for being repressive, inhuman and responsible for the democratic dismantling of the country’s institutions. The first was Arturo McFields before the OAS, an unprecedented event that earned him the recognition of his peers on the continent.
On March 27, the resignation of the international legal adviser of the Ortega-Murillo family before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Paul Reichler, was announced. The lawyer confronted Ortega and explained that the reason for writing to him was to “terminate my relationship with you and your government.”
McFields, from the OAS, criticized the lack of constitutional guarantees, the situation of political prisoners, the migratory exodus and the state pressure against public servants.
María Fernanda and María Michelle Gutiérrez Gaitán, twin daughters of the Sandinista deputy Wálmaro Gutiérrez, resigned from their positions as “advisers” in the Nicaraguan foreign service.
Ortega canceled the appointment of Orlando Tardencilla as ambassador to the United Nations Organization and appointed him his presidential adviser. The ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, Carlos Midence, was removed from his post and sent to the delegation in Argentina as his representative.
