The OAS convened Tuesday a special session on the crisis in Nicaragua

The Permanent Council of the OAS has convened a special session next Tuesday during which it will badyze the situation Nicaragua, a country subject to the process of implementation of the Inter-American Democratic Charter after the crisis triggered by protests against the regime of Daniel Ortega.

According to a statement released Saturday in Washington, headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS), the meeting was convened at the request of the Permanent Mission of Canada, who chairs the working group on the Central American country.

The Permanent Council is committed on January 11 a process of "collective recognition" of events Nicaragua as part of the implementation of the Democratic Charter, this may stem from the failure of diplomatic efforts and good offices to normalize the situation in this country, in its suspension from the body.

To this end, the Permanent Council must convene a special session of the General Assembly to determine whether the democratic order of a state is broken and whether its eventual suspension is set.

To approve the suspension, you need 24 votes, or two-thirds of the 34 active members of the corps.

Last Thursday, Eddy Antonio Montes Praslín, Aged 57 and of American nationality, missing last October and then in prison, death of a sudden during a riot in the national penitentiary system, known as La Modelo, where he was detained.

The Ministry of the Interior Nicaragua He reported that the man had died as a result of a mutiny committed by a group of political prisoners, which resulted in a clash between detainees and police officers.

But "political prisoners" denied official information and claimed that in the middle of the discussion the guards began shooting with Russian-made AK-47 war rifles.

According to this version, Montes Praslín was allegedly injured in the back when he allegedly tried to enter his cell with the rest of the group.

These political prisoners are people who have been arrested for taking part in demonstrations against President Ortega since the social eruption of April 18, 2018.

Nicaragua According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), it faces the worst crisis in decades, making 325 deaths since the month of April of last year.

Local agencies have 593 dead, while the Ortega government recognizes 199.