The Government of Nicaragua broke diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of the Netherlands this Friday after accusing him of maintaining an “interfering, interventionist and neo-colonialist” position with the Central American country.
In a diplomatic note, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua communicated to the Government of the Netherlands its “decision to immediately discontinue diplomatic relations”, in the face of “the reiterated interfering, interventionist and neo-colonialist position of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.”
We repudiate and condemn the offenses and crimes of that colonialist and neo-colonialist Europe against coveted and attacked countries like ours
According to Managua, The Netherlands “has offended and continues to offend Nicaraguan families with threats and suspensions of works for the common good, such as hospitals for indigenous and Afro-descendant communities”.
“We repudiate and condemn the offenses and crimes of that colonialist and neo-colonialist Europe against coveted and attacked countries like ours,” said the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the note signed by Foreign Minister Denis Moncada.
“The permanent offensive of the representation, not at all diplomatic and in violation of the Vienna Convention, of that neo-colonial and pro-imperial government, forces us to take this measure that we defend with the honor, dignity and sovereign spirit that characterizes us. “, he added.
The Sandinista government maintained that “we know the empires and colonialists of the Earth, and nothing and no one can make us forget their crimes against humanity.”
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Ortega had announced it
Nicaragua made that decision hours after the country’s president, Daniel Ortega, announced that his government did not want to have diplomatic ties with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which he described as “interventionist.”
During an act on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the National Police and broadcast on radio and television, Ortega said that Foreign Minister Moncada received on Thursday the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Government of Nicaragua, concurrent from Costa Rica, Marie-Christine Theodore Therese Pirenne.
“What did (Foreign Minister Moncada) hear? The ambassador came to speak to the Nicaraguans as if Nicaragua was a Dutch colony of those that they still have in some regions and those that they had and multiplied at the time that they multiplied colonies in European countries,” said Ortega.
The Sandinista leader assured that they told “the ambassador and that we say to that government: gentlemen, here in this land, in this homeland, our flag is respected, the blue and white flag that our general (Augusto César) Sandino defended. “, a nationalist hero.
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“And whoever comes here to disrespect our people, our homeland, should not appear again in Nicaragua and we do not want relations with that interventionist government,” he said.
Likewise, Ortega recalled that in 2018 the Netherlands suspended the construction of a hospital in the city of Bilwiin the northern Caribbean of Nicaragua, valued at 21.5 million dollars, which, in his opinion, demonstrated their “human misery.”
The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands suspended cooperation for the construction of that hospital in Nicaragua, due to “serious human rights violations committed by government officials and vigilante groups” in the framework of anti-government demonstrations.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018which has been accentuated after the controversial general elections on November 7, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth consecutive and second along with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with his main contenders in prison.
Ortega, close to turning 77, has been in power for 15 years and 7 consecutive months, amid allegations of authoritarianism and electoral fraud.
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