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Washington, 18 July. The OAS today asked the Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega that "support an electoral calendar" in the national dialogue, mediatized by the government. Catholic Church, in a formula that aims for early elections to come out of the crisis that has made more than 350 deaths in three months.
The demand on the elections was included in a resolution approved today at a special session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), based in Washington.
The text, promoted by seven countries (Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and the United States).) And supported by Mexico, "urges" the Nicaraguan executive to " support a jointly agreed electoral calendar in the context of the national dialogue process ".
The Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference, mediator and witness of the said dialogue, asked Ortega on June 7 that advance the elections on March 31, 2019 ; but, on July 7, Ortega rejected it, considering that there would be "time for the elections as required by law."
The resolution was approved with the vote in favor of 21 of the 34 countries that they are active members of the OAS, while three ( Nicaragua, Venezuela and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) have voted against and seven abstentions were registered, as well as three absentees, including Bolivia.
He does not indicate Ortega for the violence, but he urges his government to participate "actively and in good faith" in the national dialogue, which involves the authorities and the opposition Civic Alliance, which brings together the sector private sector and civil society.
In the resolution, the OAS expressed its condemnation of the "harbadment" of bishops who participated in the dialogue, as well as "acts of violence" against the offices of Caritas that were burned and against the National University A Undomania of Nicaragua (UNAN), which became the center of protests.
Hostilities have increased in recent days with attacks such as the UNAN and the one that took place yesterday against the city of Masaya, which caused the conviction of countries such as the United States and the United States. organizations such as the European Union (EU).
Faced with these criticisms, the Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denis Moncada, presented to the Permanent Council his own resolution demanding the respect of the international community "Self-determination" and the "international terrorist groups" were accused of Instigated violence.
This Nicaraguan initiative failed with the vote against 20 states, eight abstentions, three absentees and the support of only three countries (Venezuela and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.)
Votes showed loneliness of Nicaragua to the OAS, which had the support of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela and Bolivia, whose mission had proposed amendments to amend the approved resolution, but decided to abruptly leave the room due to disagreements in the proceedings.
During the session, Moncada drew the attention of the United States. as responsible for "interference" which, in his opinion, occurs in Nicaragua.
He warned that he was coming back to a "period of soft blows and hard knocks", like those supposedly the United States. orchestrated in Latin America over the last century and among these, the foreign minister mentioned Washington's funding of the Nicaraguan "contra" against the Sandinista executive in the 1980s and 1990s.
For its part, the American ambbadador. UU to the OAS, Carlos Trujillo reiterated his call for "free, fair and transparent elections" in Nicaragua.
During the session, Trujillo said on Twitter that the Ortega government was committing "genocide against his own people" and urged him to stop his actions.
Today marks three months of the beginning of protests, which began on April 18 against Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, a movement that began with failed social security reforms and which has become a claim that calls for his resignation after 11 years in power. EFE
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