Cuba supports Nicaragua’s decision to leave the OAS

Nicaragua’s dictator Daniel Ortega| Photo: EFE/ Jorge Torres

The Cuban government on Saturday supported Nicaragua’s decision to withdraw from the Organization of American States (OAS), after the organization disqualified the November 7 elections, formally won by the current Nicaraguan dictator, Daniel Ortega. Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez voiced support for one of their allies in the region on Twitter. Díaz-Canel said Nicaragua was once again teaching “lessons of sovereignty and dignity, values ​​that are scarce in these times” by adopting the “courageous” decision: “From Cuba, all support for the courageous decision to leave the Ministry of Yankee colonies, as our Foreign Minister said with dignity about the OAS”, wrote the Cuban, referring to former Chancellor Raúl Roa (1959-1976).

The OAS said the elections that gave Ortega a fifth term “were not free, fair or transparent and lack democratic legitimacy.” In response, Nicaragua’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denis Moncada, sent a communiqué to Almagro, in which he denounced the organization’s Charter: “We are disassociating ourselves from the OAS.” Nicaragua became the second country, after Venezuela, to ask to leave the OAS. Cuba was excluded from the Inter-American system in 1962 due to its links with the Soviet communist bloc and its differences with the US. The bloc’s members requested the incorporation of Cuba in 2009, at the 5th Summit of the Americas, but the government reiterated that it had no interest in returning.


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