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Former Nicaraguan Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Arturo McFields Yescas, confirmed Wednesday that the government presided over by Daniel Ortega ordered the expulsion of Brazilian
Former Nicaraguan Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Arturo McFields Yescas, confirmed Wednesday that the government presided over by Daniel Ortega ordered the expulsion of Brazilian Ambassador to Nicaragua, Breno de Souza Brasilia Dias da Costa, for failing to attend the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution on July 19, to which he had been invited.
McFields Yescas, who rebelled against the Ortega government during the virtual OAS session in March 2022, said in X that the “dictatorship” had issued “an ultimatum to the Brazilian ambassador to leave Nicaragua.”
A diplomat and journalist denationalized by Ortega, who was part of the Sandinista government from 2011 to March 2022, commented that with this decision, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his Nicaraguan counterpart Daniel Ortega “are once again facing another strong clash.”
He recalled that Lula and Ortega have been friends for more than 40 years and that it was on the first anniversary of the Sandinista revolution in 1980, during one of his visits to Nicaragua, that Lula met the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
“Years later, Lula and Castro would form the infamous Sao Paulo Forum. “Today, Ortega expels the Brazilian ambassador with ultimatums and insults,” he added.
According to McFields Yescas, “Lula and Ortega maintained a close friendship over the years” on both a personal and political level.
“Today the honeymoon is ruined. Ortega is throwing out Lula’s ambassador in a vulgar and usual way. “Lula asked his ambassador not to participate in public events with the Nicaraguan dictator,” the diplomat and journalist said.
This was reported by the Brazilian newspaper Folha De S.Paulo and the Nicaraguan platform Divergents, citing diplomatic sources in their countries.
Neither the Nicaraguan nor the Brazilian government confirmed or denied this information.
On July 22, Lula said Ortega had not answered his phone calls since Pope Francis asked him to defend the bishop’s position in that country.
“I spoke to the Pope and he asked me to speak to Ortega about the bishop who was jailed,” Lula told foreign correspondents, referring to religious figure Rolando Alvarez, jailed for his opposition to the Nicaraguan government.
“The thing is, Ortega didn’t answer the phone and didn’t want to talk to me. So I never talked to him again,” he added.
Lula expressed regret that this happened to “a guy who made a revolution like the one Ortega made to defeat (Anastasio) Somoza” Debayle, and said that today he does not know whether that revolution was “because he wanted power or because he wanted to improve the lives of his people.”
Brazil’s president has said he favors “alternation of power” in each country because it is “the healthiest” for democracy.
According to Lula, “when a leader gets the idea that he is necessary or irreplaceable, that is when the spirit of a dictator begins to emerge.” EFE.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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