2023-11-20 07:56:25
The Sandinista Executive asked to leave the organization after the OAS disqualified the re-election of Daniel Ortega.
Nicaragua’s departure from the Organization of American States (OAS) was made official this Sunday (11/19/2023) two years after the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, activated the process to leave the organization due to his criticism of the elections in those who were re-elected.
The United States warned the Government of Managua this Sunday that its departure from the Pan-American organization does not exempt it from its obligation to respect human rights and threatened to impose new sanctions for its repression against the Nicaraguan population.
The Sandinista Executive presented the formal request to leave the OAS on November 19, 2021, after the organization’s General Assembly disqualified the presidential elections of November 7 of that same year in Nicaragua.
Ortega, in power since 2007, was re-elected in those elections for a fifth and fourth consecutive term, with his main contenders in prison.
The 51st General Assembly resolved by majority that the elections that guaranteed Ortega’s permanence in power, along with his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, “were not free, fair or transparent” and did not have “democratic legitimacy.”
In reaction, the Government of Nicaragua announced that it was launching the two-year procedure to disassociate itself from the OAS, of which it was one of the founding members in 1948.
It is the first time that a country formally leaves the OAS. Cuba was expelled in 1962, while Venezuela’s membership remains in dispute, given that President Nicolás Maduro began the process to leave the organization in 2017, but the OAS stopped recognizing his government.
In its letter of complaint, Managua accused the OAS of violating its own founding Charter on non-interference in the internal affairs of countries and of being controlled by the United States.
The OAS accusations against Nicaragua
Since the popular demonstrations that broke out in April 2018 against the Ortega Government, and which left at least 355 dead, the OAS Permanent Council approved 12 resolutions on the situation in Nicaragua condemning the repression.
Furthermore, the member states of the OAS approved a resolution two weeks ago in which they recognized that Nicaragua’s departure would take place this Sunday, November 19. In the same resolution, they “emphasized” that this “does not nullify the other legal obligations” of the Central American country in terms of human rights.
«Nicaragua remains obliged to respect all human rights reflected in customary norms; all human rights contained in the multilateral human rights conventions to which Nicaragua is a party,” the OAS highlighted.
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