After Nicaragua’s representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Arturo Mcfields, denounced the human rights violations committed against Nicaraguans by the Daniel Ortega regime, the propagandist El 19 Digital proceeded to erase the evidence that the The Foreign Ministry maintained communication with the ambassador and that he officially represented the dictatorship, although they now deny it.
One of the deleted notes is one dated March 21, that is, published two days ago in which it was reported and highlighted that the Ortega delegate to the OAS had participated in the Fifth Inter-American Week of Afro-descendants in the Americas.
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Another of the deleted publications is from March 2, when Rosario Murillo spoke with great affection of the diplomat, thanking him for informing him that Nicaragua was the third country in the world with the most women parliamentarians. The regime’s cyber trolls also began to discredit Mcfields on social media, calling him a “traitor, traitor and Judas.”
The regime issued a concise note this afternoon, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assuring that the ambassador’s statement “is invalid” because “it does not represent us”, although his appointment has not been officially canceled. The statement indicates that Francisco Campbell Hooker is the Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS and that he is “duly accredited.”
Arturo McFields assumed the permanent mission of Nicaragua to the OAS in October 2021, just a few days before Ortega decided to leave the continental body. At Presidential Agreement 183-2021 published in La Gaceta on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, McFields was in possession of his new position.
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In his speech at the OAS Permanent Council, this Wednesday, March 23, McFields said: “I take the floor today on behalf of more than 177 political prisoners and more than 350 people who have lost their lives since 2018. I take the floor on behalf of the thousands of public servants at all levels, civil and military, of those who today are forced by the Nicaraguan regime to pretend to fill positions and repeat slogans, because if they do not they lose their jobs» .
“Denouncing the dictatorship of my country is not easy, but continuing to remain silent and defending the indefensible is impossible. I have to speak, even if I am afraid, I have to speak, even if my future and that of my family are uncertain, I have to speak because if I don’t, the stones themselves will speak for me,” the ambassador continued in his live participation. .
