Nicaragua Withdraws from OAS for Facilitating Hegemony in Latin America
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Nicaragua announces its resignation from the Organization of American States (OAS) following the latter's interference in the country's affairs and for facilitating hegemony in Latin America, which the country rejects.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
Nicaragua informed, via a letter, the Organization of American States (OAS), of its decision to withdraw from the organization, which it accuses of facilitating US hegemony in Latin America and the Caribbean, as announced by the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada on Friday.
"We are resigning and separating ourselves from the OAS," he said at a press conference.
Moncada pointed out that the actions of the organization, led by Luis Almagro, have proven that "its mission is to facilitate the United States' hegemony in Latin America and the Caribbean, which Nicaragua rejects."
This week, the Nicaraguan National Assembly (parliament) asked President Daniel Ortega to denounce the OAS' "interference".
Nicaragua held presidential and legislative elections for the period 2022-2027 on November 7, which were not recognized by some governments and international organizations, but endorsed by the country's traditional allies.
Subsequently, the OAS stated that those elections were "neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic."
In this context, President Joe Biden on Tuesday banned members of the Nicaraguan government from entering the United States as he issued a broad proclamation in response to an election that Washington has denounced as rigged in favor of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
Biden’s order came just a day after the United States, Britain, and Canada imposed targeted sanctions on Nicaraguan officials in a concerted response to the Nov. 7 election that many countries have called a sham.
For its part, Russia slammed the US calls for the non-recognition of the results of the general elections in Nicaragua. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described such calls as "inadmissible."
