The Nicaraguan regime reacted furiously and offensively against the governments of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, to whom it uttered a series of epithets ranging from “serving them” to “insane” for having postponed the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Central American Integration System (SICA), where the proposal of candidates for secretary general of the regional organization was to be discussed.
Yesterday, December 4, the meeting of the heads of diplomacy of the countries that make up SICA was scheduled, and the new alternatives to occupy that high position on behalf of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo would be presented.
The postponement of the meeting of foreign ministers is assumed as a new rejection of the postulates of the Managua dictatorship. This time, the regime took care that the names were not leaked to avoid complaints from human rights defenders and the opposition, but it was of no use.
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The position assumed by the four countries that decided to reject the Nicaraguan candidates provoked a virulent reaction from the Sandinista Executive. He issued a communication signed by Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke, but due to its style and content it is notable that it was written by Murillo; in which he attacks the Guatemalan, Costa Rican, Panamanian and Dominican governments.
In the communication, the Ortega-Murillo administration presents to the member countries of SICA “the most energetic protest against the insolent and disrespectful attitude” of the governments of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, which it accuses of ignoring “the independence and sovereignty of our countries in evident servility and extra-regional interests.
Between November 2023, when the dictatorship announced the alleged resignation of the general secretary of the organization Warner Vargas and this December 5, the Council of Chancellors has rejected four shortlists of candidates for the SG-SICA sent by Ortega and Murillo because the candidates do not meet the requirements established for that position.
Furthermore, the permanent denunciation of opposition organizations and human rights organizations has had an influence. who have pointed out that tyrants intend to place a personal political operator of marriage in power in that position.
Among their proposals they have included officials that the international community accuses of participating in the repression and the chain of government corruption. Others, of the names that have resonated in SICA, are designated by the United Nations as criminals against humanity.
Likewise, the official communication indicates that “they reject those inappropriate features of our culture and fraternal duties in this world where ignorance and irresponsibility are leaving so much backwardness and painful occurrences for peoples who, like ours, cry out for the right to live safely, calm and advancing against imposed poverty.
Nicaragua accuses these governments of “interference” for denying it the right to occupy the space that corresponds to it in the General Secretariat of the integrationist organization.
It is up to the State of Nicaragua to occupy the SG-SICA for a period of 4 years, which expires in 2026. By failing to get one of their candidates approved, they blame the four governments for condemning the organization to a ” gradual, extinction due to non-functionality and disintegration.
Likewise, they accuse these states of rejecting Nicaraguan applicants for responding to “the interests of foreign agents.”
«We speak out and declare that we are not condemned to failure, on the contrary, we are going to continue fighting so that reason, intelligence, intellect and the interest of our people prevail and the discernment prevails that allows us to join forces for the right to Central American families to live with dignity and to multiply all actions that seek to strengthen harmony, security and well-being in the face of the threatening realities that we all know, drug trafficking, organized crime and disunity that entails disarticulation and opens doors to abuse, exploitation and ridicule of the merciless looting of our patrimonial wealth at the hands of the usual unscrupulous,” says the note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke, on behalf of Ortega and Murillo, closes the communication by making “a new call to consider the common good and banish the madness that they sell us in the form of egotistical and infantile fantasies and nightmares and absurd desires for imposition and one’s power.” about others.”
