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May 6, 2022

What Will Result From Nicaragua Leaving the OAS?

The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced last month that it had completed its withdrawal from the Organization of American States. // File Photo: Nicaraguan Government.

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  • Nicaragua’s government announced April 24 that it had completed its withdrawal from the Organization of American States, closing the local OAS office and revoking the credentials of some of its officials in the Central American country. The OAS criticized the move, saying Nicaragua’s withdrawal cannot take effect until next year. Nicaragua had announced last November that it would leave the organization after the OAS General Assembly condemned the country’s Nov. 7 presidential election, which has been internationally criticized as a sham. What are the main reasons behind Nicaragua’s withdrawal from the organization? How much will Nicaragua’s departure from the OAS affect international scrutiny of President Daniel Ortega’s government? How useful is the OAS and its Inter-American Democratic Charter if countries can simply pull out of the organization if they are deemed to have violated the charter, as Nicaragua was last December?  

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Moisés Martínez Mayorga, investigative journalist at the digital portal of Confidencial newspaper in Nicaragua: “Since the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo established a police state and suppressed civil rights and democratic freedoms in Nicaragua following the massacre of civil protests in 2018, the OAS has approved nine resolutions on the crisis in the Central American country. Three were approved by the General Assembly, and six by the Permanent Council. They have all condemned the abuses of the regime and demanded the restoration of democracy in Nicaragua. The regime has simply ignored them. However, beyond being condemnations that make the regime more isolated internationally, these resolutions have not affected Ortega’s finances. That is why Ortega decided to…”

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