This Sunday, April 24, policemen from the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo surrounded the offices of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Managua, shortly after Foreign Minister Denis Moncada announced Nicaragua’s early withdrawal from that body and the closure of the office in the country, amid international rejection of the dictatorship.
At least six officers and a van from the Directorate of Special Operations (DOEP) were located on the outskirts of the place, while two vehicles with diplomatic license plates were observed inside the property.
Sources assured Article 66 that, starting at one in the afternoon, the regime’s operators began looting the offices of the OAS headquarters in the capital.
The seizure of the facilities occurs minutes after, through a statement, the regime accused the organization of being an instrument of the United States and vomited a glossary of epithets against the regional forum.
“We ratify our invariable decision to leave the OAS, as expressed on November 19, 2021, and by confirming our irrevocable denunciation and resignation, in the face of this calamitous, truculent and lying dependency of the State Department of Yankee imperialism,” the statement said. read this day by Moncada.
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The fuss over the early departure of Ortega-Murillo from the regional forum comes a month after the former ambassador of Managua to the OAS Arthur McFields surprisingly denounced the abuses of the dictatorship to the astonishment of his colleagues and the regime itself.
Ortega finally decided to withdraw his representatives from the organization Ivan Lara, Michael Campbell Y Orlando Tardencillawho replaced McFields and lasted just 16 days.
In statements to Article 66Arturo McFields anticipated that Tardencilla would possibly be removed from the post in less than a month because in the corridors of the organization in Washington there was some disagreement with the presence of the former guerrilla.
«The Ortega dictatorship has been irreversibly exposed Given this list of issues that Ambassador McFields has made, a situation that must be recognized, first, as an act of courage; second, as a public denunciation from within the Nicaraguan government itself,” Francisco Guerrero, Secretary for Strengthening Democracy at the Organization of American States (OAS), declared at the time.
