The person appointed by Daniel Ortega to replace Arturo McFields as representative before the Organization of American States (OAS), Orlando Tardencilla, will present his credentials as Nicaraguan ambassador to the continental entity on the morning of April 8.
According to the invitation issued by the protocol office of the OAS General Secretariat, “the presentation of credentials of Ambassador Orlando Tardencilla, permanent representative of Nicaragua before the Organization of American States, will be on Friday, April 8, at 9:15 a.m. AM in the Gallery of Heroes.
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Tardencilla was appointed to that position after several diplomatic moves that destabilized the Nicaraguan regime. On March 23, McFields spoke at the OAS, representing Ortega, and denounced human rights violations, the lack of constitutional guarantees, the serious situation of political prisoners, and state pressure against public servants.
That coup generated a “storm” for the Executive, which hastily stepped forward by placing Francisco Campbell Hooker as its permanent representative of Nicaragua before the OAS, but this emissary of Ortega was not even allowed to present his credentials to Luis Almagro.
A few days later, on April 4, presidential agreement 58-2022 published in La Gaceta, the Official Gazette, revealed that the delegate to that organization would be Orlando Tardencilla, one of the officials whom Ortega removes and replaces as he pleases.
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.
The Ortega official is a lawyer and notary public, three times a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the National Assembly: from 1985 to 1990, and two consecutive periods between 1997 and 2007, a member of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) since 2012.
He was also a Sandinista combatant who joined the Salvadoran guerrilla in 1980, was captured at the beginning of 1981, and after a year in prison, subjected to torture, he was sent to the United States in order to testify that his presence in El Salvador was the evidence of a Cuban aid plan for the Salvadoran guerrillas.
