Panama complained to Nicaragua about the political activities of former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli in the Nicaraguan embassy, where he sought asylum 10 months ago to avoid going to prison, reported Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha.
«Last week we summoned the ambassador of Nicaragua [Consuelo Sandoval Meza]”We express our concern about the expressions that occur within the embassy,” said the Panamanian foreign minister in an interview with the Telemetro channel.
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Furthermore, “we asked the Republic of Nicaragua to please make the embassy what it should always be in terms of asylum: only asylum, and not a focus for political meetings,” he added.
Martinelli, 72 years old and who governed Panama from 2009 to 2014, sought asylum on February 7 after losing the last judicial appeal to avoid serving a sentence of almost one year in prison for money laundering.
At the embassy he gives his opinion on Panamanian issues on social networks and is frequently visited by political allies.
The dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo will not win anything in the Central American Court of Justice (CCJ), a regional instance to which they resorted trying to force four countries in the region to elect as secretary general of the Central American Integration System (SICA) one of his proposed candidates.
The applicants have been rejected several times because they do not meet the requirements, according to experts in international law and diplomacy, consulted by Article 66.
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On December 10, the Ortega-Murillo regime, through its Foreign Ministry, appealed to the CCJ through a resource known as a “request for mandatory consultation”, with which it intends for the region’s legal body to interpret the Tegucigalpa Protocol. and issue its opinion forcing Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic to approve the election of one of Ortega’s candidates for the General Secretary of SICA.
These four countries have rejected on four occasions at least 9 candidates proposed by the Sandinista administration because the candidates do not meet the required qualities established in the Tegucigalpa Protocol itself.
The dictator Daniel Ortega, once again, through the creation of laws that he sends to his deputies, demonstrates the distrust he has in public institutions and the horror that the idea of suffering an attack produces in him.
The Sandinista leader sent to the National Assembly a bill of “regulation and use of unmanned aerial, naval and land means”which prohibits the use of drones throughout the country, unless they are authorized by the Presidency, that is, by himself.
The bill sent by Ortega contains 11 articles. One of the most controversial, article 9, establishes that all these unmanned air, naval and land means that are already in use and in the possession of natural or legal persons, must be delivered.
«Natural or legal persons who, on the date of entry into force of this law, have unmanned aerial, naval and land means in their possession, must inform and deliver said means within a period of 30 days to the authority of application. Otherwise, it will incur an express violation of this law, for which it will be subject to the corresponding administrative or judicial actions,” reads part of article 9 of said initiative.
Also, it orders the General Directorate of Customs Services to, within a period of no more than 30 days, “deliver to the enforcement authority the registration and databases of unmanned aerial means that have entered the country in compliance with the procedures of the services.” customs officers.
