The crisis in Nicaragua is coming to a head. The organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union increase the pressure on the Ortega government. He fizzles again, as in Venezuela?
Until the early hours of the morning, the organization of American States, had sought in Washington feverishly for a solution, then the member countries can finally come to a Resolution for Nicaragua. Accordingly, the peace would have to be implemented in the plan, the rights apply to all, and free elections are carried out. The government in Managua is responsible for the dramatic Situation in the country and had to move.
The speech is not from the 19th century. July 2018, but from the 24. June 1979. A month after the OAS Resolution fled, the President of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza, according to Miami – along with the state Treasury. The Making of a Sandinista took over tables five-member government junta. To a member of its leadership, a certain Daniel Ortega.
A similar Resolution after almost four decades
Almost 40 years later, the organization of American States has agreed on a Resolution to Nicaragua, and its content is the paper four decades ago are amazingly similar. So similar that one could almost believe that the Resolution of 1979 could have served as a template, only you would have changed in Washington. With 21 Yes votes (only Nicaragua, the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela voted against it) condemned the OAS, the Repression and the violation of human rights. At the same time, the international community urged the government of President Daniel Ortega, an end to the violence and the disarming of paramilitary units, the active participation in the national peace dialogue, and early and free elections. This week, the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini issued a similar demand.
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega is posing victory with two police officers in Masaya
Daniel Ortega stay in the end only a few weeks or fizzles, the international pressure as well as in Venezuela?
OAS comes as a facilitator rather than the EU
“Ortega is playing for victory, for him it is all or nothing. So far, he has made way for even an inch back. He makes concessions, breaks his rule of principle.” Günter Maihold of the Foundation for science and policy is not expected that the international pressure, Ortega moved to relent. The government in Managua also accept only the OAS as a mediation partner. “She is the only player on the Ortega, so far, has been received, even though the proposed Plan, de facto, into the Void has run,” said Maihold. If there is a solution with international help, not only with the organization of American States, with the help of Ortega, at least, have spoken.
The Appeals of the EU foreign representative, Federica Mogherini, in Nicaragua, apparently little attention
And the European Union? “The EU is too far away, the relations with Nicaragua are also not so good that Brussels comes up for Managua as an intermediary in issue,” Latin America expert Maihold sure. The EU had reduced in the past, is increasingly a confrontation to Nicaragua hazards, especially the development of cooperation with the Central American country either drastically or completely set. At the press conference after the Meeting of the foreign Ministers of the European Union and the community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Brussels, Mogherini had said they have written to the Minister of foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, Denis Moncada, a letter asking for a quick response. Possible, therefore, that the EU must wait outside the Ombudsman a little longer for a response.
Nicaragua international isolation, such as Venezuela threatens to
“Ortega wants to stay until the end of 2021 in the office and now creates facts, such as in Masaya,” said Maihold. The city is regarded as an opposition stronghold and is now back under the control of the government. Nevertheless, it was true that the international community keep the pressure up. Human rights violations by the security forces and by para-military units should not remain unpunished, the bishops would have to get in their mediation mission, the full support. But most important, Maihold, be it to the government in Nicaragua feel “that she is isolated with such a policy is international and, as Venezuela has no way to get from the world community of any support.”
Protests against the government of Nicaragua in front of the headquarters of the OAS in Washington
Anastasio Somoza had rejected at the end of June 1979, the Resolution of the organization of American States, by the way, brusquely. These “represent a clear attempt to infringe the sovereignty of Nicaragua, by trying to overthrow a liberal government”. To answer Ortega’s in July 2018, you may be curious about.