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Argentina and Mexico call their ambassadors in Nicaragua for consultations on the repressive escalation of Daniel Ortega

2021-06-26T23:24:53.178Z


Both nations distance themselves from the OAS resolutions, but reiterate their joint concern about the human rights situation in the Central American country


A woman sits next to a picture of Daniel Ortega in the city of Catarina in October 2020.OSWALDO RIVAS / Reuters

Argentina and Mexico maintain a joint diplomatic strategy in the face of the political crisis suffered by Nicaragua under the Daniel Ortega regime.

Both countries announced separately this Monday that they have decided to call their respective ambassadors in Managua for consultations, to explain what they consider to be the "worrying political-legal actions carried out by the Nicaraguan Government in recent days, which have put the integrity of and freedom of various opposition figures ”.

The decision comes a week after both Latin American powers abstained from voting on a resolution condemning Ortega within the Organization of American States (OAS), which was approved by 26 countries on the continent, which also requires the "immediate release of all political prisoners."

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The joint strategy of both countries has baffled opponents in Nicaragua, who expect a regional unanimous position of condemnation against Ortega and his government.

Casa Rosa sources have affirmed that the Executives of Alberto Fernández and Andrés Manuel López Obrador have reiterated their concern about the human rights situation, but are against intervening in what they consider to be the internal affairs of Nicaragua, reports

Federico Rivas Molina

from Buenos Aires. “On the grounds of abstention [in the OAS] there was already concern about the issue of human rights. The issue is that the OAS wanted to take him to a call for elections and get involved in the electoral issue, something that Argentina and Mexico do not agree with. Now with the latest movements of Ortega, who continues to imprison opponents, ambassadors are called for consultation, but it is the same position: concern for human rights and now expressing it in another way, ”explains the same source from the Argentine Executive.

In the statement issued this Monday, both nations affirm that they are attentive to the evolution of events in the Central American nation and show their willingness to "collaborate constructively in promoting dialogue so that Nicaraguans themselves will overcome this situation peacefully." . The Government of Mexico spoke for the first time on the Nicaraguan political crisis on May 14. The Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE) reported that the López Obrador Executive has expressed to the Ortega regime "its concern for the integrity and freedom" of the opponents detained in recent weeks, which include four candidates for the presidency, two businessman, a journalist and three former Sandinista guerrillas. "Mexico,With strict respect for its policy of non-intervention and self-determination of the peoples, it has made known to the Government of Nicaragua its concern for the integrity and freedom of the detainees ”, the Mexican Foreign Ministry has affirmed.

Journalist Miguel Mora after being released in June 2019. Alfredo Zuñiga / AP

Despite the convictions and international isolation, Daniel Ortega continues with his repressive offensive.

On Sunday night the police arrested journalist Miguel Mora, who had also made public his intention to participate in the presidential elections scheduled for November as an opposition candidate.

Mora thus becomes the fifth candidate for the presidency to be detained by the regime, after opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro, academic Félix Maradiaga, diplomat Arturo Cruz and former Vice Minister of Finance Juan Sebastián Chamorro.

This is the second time that the regime has arrested Mora, founder of

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, whose writing was assaulted and confiscated in 2018 in response to the critical line of the media against the repression against the demonstrations that demanded the end of the Ortega government and that left 328 dead, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Mora is being investigated for the same reasons as the rest of the detainees, that is, “for having carried out acts that undermine independence, sovereignty and self-determination, inciting foreign interference in internal affairs, requesting military interventions, organizing with financing of foreign powers to carry out acts of terrorism and destabilization ”. Along with the journalist, there are 18 opponents imprisoned by the regime, including the heroes of the Sandinista revolution Dora María Téllez, Victor Hugo Tinoco and Hugo Torres.

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