Daniel Capitanich, Argentine Ambassador to Nicaragua, has been in the country for almost two months without official activity

Mateo Daniel Capitanich He returned from Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, where he held the post of Argentine Ambassador, on Monday, June 21. He was summoned by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Felipe Solá, to present a report on human rights violations in the Central American country. 54 days have passed and the Chaco politician is still in our country without official activity.

A few days after Solá’s summons, Jorge Milton’s brother – the current governor of Chaco and former chief of staff of Cristina Kirchner – presented a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pablo Tettamanti, who did not was not disclosed. details. After spending some time in Buenos Aires, he went to his province, where very few people have seen it perform in public.

These days, Daniel Capitanich has limited himself to posting a few tweets on the actions of the national government, for the commemoration of the National Holidays or for the conquest of the Copa América of the Argentine team in Brazil.

“He will not return to Managua until there are signs of relaxation in Nicaragua”, informed a relative of the ambassador who was appointed by the Senate of the Nation on August 31. In December, the Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega and his vice Rosario Murillo received their credentials. In the photos of the three of them on Twitter, everyone is smiling.

While one of the “political” ambassadors appointed by Alberto Fernández’s government is in Argentina, in Nicaragua the situation is increasingly tense. When he was removed from his post in June, the social outlook for the presidential elections to be held on November 7, where Ortega and Murillo will stand for election, were increasingly shattered, with the arbitrary detention of several opposition candidates.

Just a few hours ago, the Ortega regime ordered the newspaper to shut down Press, the last which continued to be published on paper, and ordered the imprisonment of its general manager, Juan Lorenzo Holmann, after the search of the headquarters of the newspaper and the opening of an investigation against the media for “fraud and money laundering offenses”. The police authorities entered their premises, journalists and collaborators have been detained and held incommunicado, and access to the Internet and servers has been cut.

Several countries and international organizations have expressed their rejection and condemned this act of the Nicaraguan authorities. In the first place, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned “the constant official persecution of the press in Nicaragua”.

On the other hand, the Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the United States Department of State called on Ortega “to respect the freedom of expression of Press instead of acting to silence independent reports “, as posted on his Twitter account. International organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) or Amnesty International. The director of the Americas division of the NGO HRW, José Miguel Vivanco, estimated on his Twitter that “Ortega has already destroyed any possibility of a fair election. If the international community does not react, Ortega will turn Nicaragua into a black hole ”.

The international community denounced the repressive situation in the Central American nation. That is why they called their ambassadors in Managua in Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, Mexico and Colombia for consultations, due to the lack of guarantees in this electoral process.

In the case of Argentina, the request for consultations with Capitanich took place six days after the Argentine abstention from the Organization of American States (OAS) with a resolution condemning Managua in which the release of the imprisoned opponents was requested. At the time, Argentinian Foreign Minister Felipe Solá said Infobae in New York on Capitanich’s situation that “there are three numbers. The first is the call for consultations, the second, the withdrawal of the ambassador, and the third, the severing of relations. The call for consultations implies unease in the country which calls for the country in which the ambassador is located. We will see the development in Nicaragua, we will speak with the ambassador and based on that, we will establish when he will return ”.

Solá had also replied in the same report that Argentina respected “a single line, that on June 11 we sent a letter, that the Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs let me know that he did not like it, in which we demanded respect for human rights for arrests and We have asked him to release these prisoners who are of political importance, because it is difficult to believe in an electoral process if the opposition figures cannot move, cannot act. We also asked our ambassador to visit the prisoners, and it turned out that the prisoners were being held incommunicado. On the 15th, four days later, a vote was taken at the OAS and we had objections. Some were present and others were not and we decided to abstain. “

When he decided to summon his ambassador, Alberto Fernández had spoken earlier with his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador. And both agreed on the need to withdraw their diplomatic representatives to put pressure on the Sandinista dictatorship of Ortega, which wants to extend its term of 5 years.

“With the aim of consulting on the worrying politico-legal actions carried out by the Nicaraguan government in recent days which have endangered the integrity and freedom of various opposition figures (including presidential candidates), Nicaraguan activists and businessmen ”, the statement according to which reported the transfer to Buenos Aires and Mexico of the ambassadors designated by Alberto Fernández and AMLO, said Capitanich and Gustavo Alonso Cabrera Rodríguez.

At that time, it was a diplomatic gesture by the two countries which showed the unease with the political situation that Daniel Ortega was playing a few months before the elections which could extend his dictatorship for five years.

Mateo Daniel Capitanich, who prefers to be named by his middle name, grew up in politics in the shadow of his brother Jorge. Roque Sáenz Peña (Chaco) was born in the Presidency in 1969 and is an agricultural producer. He was elected mayor of Campo Largo, a town in the Chaco region of around 8,000 inhabitants, for the period 2011-2015. He was then vice-provincial governor of Domingo Peppo between 2015 and 2019. He ran in the last mayoral elections in his hometown but did not win the elections.

He has always identified with the current vice-president, Cristina Kirchner. And based on that profile, he accepted his current position in Nicaragua. Where for now, he has no plans to return.

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