Nicaragua’s exiled opponents this Sunday called Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega “arrogant” and “cynical” for cutting ties with Ecuador after a police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, which culminated in the arrest of former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas when his government expropriated the offices OAS and Taiwan in Managua and agreed to attack the diplomatic headquarters of the United States with stones and mortars.
“Daniel Ortega, who attacks and confiscates the OAS headquarters and the Taiwanese embassy (in Managua), breaks off relations with Ecuador and swears that he respects international law. “Cold and cynical,” former Nicaraguan Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Arturo McFields wrote on his social media account X.
“Now they say they are defending international law and condemning Ecuador. Hypocrisy,” chided the denationalized diplomat and journalist, who was part of the Sandinista government from 2011 to March 2022 and also criticized Mexico for its silence on these abuses in Nicaragua.
They criticize Mexico’s silence in the face of violations in Nicaragua.
Denationalized opposition leader Ireland Jerez said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “remained silent in the face of the attack on the OAS headquarters in Nicaragua by his friends, the Sandinista dictatorship”, just as “when they opposed Taiwan and the regime stole everything “
Also denationalized opponent Enrique Saenz criticized the silence of Lopez Obrador and other leaders when Ortega’s security forces raided the OAS headquarters in Managua.
“If López Obrador and other governments had reacted vigorously to this case…” Saenz commented in X.
For the denationalized Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, when “the Ortega dictatorship attacked the OAS headquarters in Managua and confiscated property,” it set a “precedent of impunity.”
On April 24, 2022, Nicaraguan police forcibly occupied offices rented by the OAS in Managua, and three days later the government formalized the expropriation of the building, where it first announced that it would create a “Museum of Shame.” »
On August 22 of the same year, the Sandinista government, through the Office of the Attorney General, transferred this building to the state-owned National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), and on February 23, 2023, a training center was opened there. “House of Sovereignty by Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann.”
Taiwan, USA and Curia
Meanwhile, on December 27, 2021, the Nicaraguan government announced that all assets that Taiwan had in the country remained the “absolute and unrestricted property” of China as a result of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations.
Before leaving the country, Taiwan donated its former diplomatic headquarters and other assets to the Archdiocese of Managua, but the Nicaraguan government objected and transferred them to China.
Opponents also recalled that on October 29, 2009, the US embassy in Managua was attacked by supporters of the Sandinista government protesting criticism that then-ambassador Robert Callahan had made about the questionable decision to allow Ortega to run for re-election. elections in the 2011 elections.
They also emphasized that at dawn on August 19, 2022, special forces raided the episcopal palace of the diocese of the department of Matagalpa in northern Nicaragua to arrest Bishop Rolando Alvarez, as well as seven of his employees.