The story of Alberto Fernández’s refusal to condemn Daniel Ortega at the OAS

Once again, Alberto Fernández’s weakness towards Christianity, his personal anger against the OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro, and the idea that he must follow Mexico in all his efforts in foreign policy, that this Whether it suits Argentina or not, they explain their government’s abstention from the resolution that the organization’s Permanent Council voted on Nicaragua last Tuesday.

But there is another factor. It’s the arrival that the representative to the Organization of American States, Carlos Raimundi, has reached the president’s ears, activist and defender of the Chavist regime in Venezuela as well as of Ortega’s Sandinism, and who has the support of Máximo Kirchner and his strength.

In dialogue with government sources and with foreign sources who closely follow in the footsteps of today’s Ambassador Raimundi, Bugle he pieced together the plot behind the president’s decision to overturn diplomatic negotiations initially aimed at voting in favor of the resolution that was approved by 26 other OAS countries. Argentina ended up abstaining with Mexico, Belize and Dominica. Its Mercosur partners have approved it.

It was Alberto Fernández who gave the order not to condemn the “nicas”. But there were several twists and turns to get there. Felipe Solá even sent his Nicaraguan colleague Denis Moncada a letter of complaint. It was Friday 11 and Bugle had access to its content.

Sola said he was “concerned about the” crisis “generated by Ortega’s electoral reform and” especially “by the arrests of” figures “of the opposition, including presidential candidates, a former vice -Chancellor, Sandinista dissident Solá has a friend among them.

“We are concerned – he said – that circumstances such as the arrests indicated mark a deterioration of the situation of human rights and individual freedoms.” He then reminded Moncada that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, had drafted a critical report on Nicaragua that Argentina had supported.

Solá also demanded that “the situation” of “representatives of the political expressions of the opposition” who are imprisoned be “reconsidered”, and asked him to ensure “free and transparent” elections according to the established timetable.

This Monday, there is a session at the UN for Nicaragua and the government could have a tougher stance than the OAS, where a complicity with Orteguismo and his inexplicable diet.

Alberto Fernández even thought about mediation and making a phone call to Ortega, without having a network in Nicaragua. Ortega didn’t want to because he doesn’t back down in his persecution of everything that opposes him.

What happened in the following days can only be understood by taking into account the internal tensions of the Front de Todos. Nicaragua was a less sensitive case to resolve than Venezuela and was a good bargaining chip for Washington’s demands. Cristina Kirchner doesn’t even have sympathy for Nicaraguans since she kissed the Complaints from Ortega’s daughter that he abused and raped her from the age of 9.

US Foreign Minister Antony Blinken asked Solá to support the resolution. The Argentine minister in turn asked him for several changes to the text of the letter. Among them, some have not been changed – such as the one who claimed to change the word “strengthen” democracy to “restore” democracy; and another important decision for the government was granted: the sentence which granted Almagro increased powers to resolve the Nicaraguan crisis was withdrawn.

We know that the former Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs wants to invoke the Democratic Charter for Nicaragua, to impose a scale of sanctions on the Ortega-Murillos. And in Argentina K, Almagro causes grief. They see it as a factor of foreign “interference” in the region. An “instrument” of Donald Trump, for his role in the condemnation of the Maduro regime during the Republican presidency.

At the OAS, they claim that Solá challenged Raimundi because of his position in favor of Ortega. By that time, Alberto had been convinced and ordered the OAS to abstain.

The move was accompanied by a new play with Andrés Manuel López Obrador. But Mexico always play their own way and usually let Fernández pay. But the Mexican Foreign Ministry has guaranteed a bilateral move. He arranged to abstain with Argentina and drafted the almost pro-Nicaraguan press release signed by the two governments. But the day he took his own position with a harsher text towards the Ortega regime, while Fernández-Solá was left speechless.

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