The response to Nicaragua after the questioned elections in which President Daniel Ortega was “reelected” in a process full of repression against political opponents, generates division in the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), where this Thursday eight countries supported a draft condemnation resolution and others urged not to meddle in internal affairs.
The draft resolution was promoted by the United States, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Antigua and Barbuda and requests the OAS Permanent Council to “an immediate collective evaluation no later than November 30 and take appropriate action. “
The Inter-American Democratic Charter describes the consequences for the governments of the region that do not respect human rights and “we have to respect this letter“US Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted in his speech.
Under Article 21 of this charter, a Member State can be suspended if it breaks the democratic order and diplomacy has not been successful in solving the problem.
The draft resolution that the OAS can adopt by a simple majority of 18 votes in this general assembly does not openly imply the activation of Article 21 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, but could lead to its activation based on the conclusions of “The collective evaluation”.
Costa Rica was one of the most combative countries this Thursday among the states that have already intervened in the deliberations that are taking place virtually. The session will continue on Friday, when the general assembly closes and the draft resolution could be adopted.
The actions of the Ortega government, which outlawed three parties and detained dozens of politicians and activists, “contravene the free exercise of democracy”And political pluralism, said the Costa Rican foreign minister, Rodolfo Solano.
“It is not worth not knowing“The Democratic Charter,”it is not worth ignoring her”, He insisted Solano, which nevertheless calls on the OAS to “promote, between all parts of Nicaragua, dialogue ”.
Canada called on the OAS to stop “keep looking” and “take action”, Referring to the draft resolution.
Nicaragua repeatedly requested the right of reply to affirm that the elections were “free” and request “I respect”.
When it was the Nicaraguan representative’s turn, Michael Campbell elaborated a little more.
“Nicaragua, Mr. President, you deserve respect, no sanctions or threats, no blockades or bellicose attitudes“, Said Campbell, who affirmed that the elections were developed”in the midst of economic, media and organizational interventions and in the face of cruel threats and destabilizing actions ”.
OAS reviews
He also attacked the OAS, which he accuses of “have a vision of the 60s ″ instead of being renewed to stop being “A decadent ministry of colonies.”
It was not the only country to accuse the OAS of interfering in internal affairs. “Every State has the right to choose its political, economic and social system without external interference and the duty not to intervene in the affairs of other States.“Said Argentina, whose Peronist government is an ally of the less democratic regimes in the region, so it does not consider valid”recourse to sanctions”.
Bolivia agrees and advocates “rethink the OAS”. “For the OAS, it is as if all the central problems were far away”, He opines.
For the Mexico of Andrés López Obrador, also close to the authoritarian and dictatorial governments of the left in the region, the OAS fails to fulfill the purposes for which it was created.
Mexico said that it rejects “categorically any attempt to disturb the constitutional order in any country from the outside and does not accept that under this argument the OAS assumes that it has supranational powers or with instruments to intervene in the internal affairs of our States”.
“The case” from Venezuela
The situation in Venezuela also came to light.
Brazil considers it “the most paradigmatic case“Of what needs to be fixed in the region and requested that the illegitimate President Nicolás Maduro”demonstrate your good faith in the area of the negotiation process”With the opposition led by the leader Juan Guaidó.
The United States, which along with 50 other countries do not recognize the “re-election“Of Maduro in 2018 for considering it fraudulent, requested the release of”all US citizens who have been illegally detained ”.
The health crisis caused by COVID-19 was one of the most recurrent themes in the speeches the day before (Thursday). The region registers 32% of deaths from the new coronavirus despite representing 8% of the world’s population.
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