Cuba supports Nicaragua’s exit from the OAS

Cuba expressed this Tuesday its support and solidarity with the decision adopted by Nicaragua to leave the Organization of American States (OAS) and all its mechanisms.

“We ratify our solidarity and support for the brother people and Government of Nicaragua and its President Daniel Ortega, in the face of a new lesson in dignity and integrity, by deciding to stop being part of all the mechanisms of the OAS,” wrote the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz -Canel, on his Twitter account.

Likewise, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez affirmed that Cuba “supports the firm and legitimate decisions of the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of Nicaragua, to withdraw from the OAS and the Summit of the Americas.”

“All our solidarity with the brother Nicaraguan people and Government,” added the head of the island’s diplomacy on Twitter.

The Government of Nicaragua announced this Sunday its decision to withdraw the credentials of its representatives to the OAS, as well as the closure of the offices of that organization in Managua.

A statement, read by the Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denis Moncada, ratified his “invariable decision” to leave the OAS.

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He also recalled that he had already expressed it in November 2021, after that body rejected the legitimacy of the elections held in that month, in which Daniel Ortega was re-elected along with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president.

“Nicaragua is not a colony of anyone, therefore it is not part of a ministry of colonies. By denouncing and renouncing that infernal mechanism from which we immediately withdraw in absolute dignity, we ratify, yes, our respect, affection and recognition, to Cuba and Venezuela, heroic, and to the peoples who bravely wage their struggles, and who have accompanied us and they accompany in the battles”, maintained the chancellor of the Central American country.

Nicaragua’s permanence in the OAS had been in doubt for four years, when the organization approved the application process of the Inter-American Democratic Charter for the accusations against Ortega after the repression against the anti-government demonstrations of 2018 that, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Human Rights (IACHR), left 355 dead.

Nicaragua’s withdrawal from the OAS will become official in November 2023, two years after the announcement of its decision. (I)