Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega appointed the veteran diplomat Gadiel Francisco Arce Mairena as its new ambassador to Colombia, a position that had been vacant since last December, the Official Gazette reported on Wednesday.
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Arce Mairena was a foreign relations official during the first Sandinista government (1979-1990) in the former Yugoslavia, and had political responsibilities for the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Germany, Cuba, England and Venezuelaaccording to a file publication of the defunct newspaper The new daily.
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He was also an assistant to the late “commander” of the Sandinista revolution Thomas Borgewho headed the Ministry of the Interior in the 1980s, which was in charge of state security and the Fifth Directorate – in charge of counterintelligence abroad.
Graduated in Psychology from the Jesuit Central American University (UCA), Arce Mairena, a native of the municipality of La Trinidad, department of Estelí (north), was appointed ambassador to Iran after the return of the Sandinistas to power in 2007, and later charge d’affaires with consular functions, consul general and minister counselor of the Nicaraguan embassy in Ecuador.
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In 2013 he was appointed as first consul with diplomatic equivalence as adviser to the Nicaraguan Consulate in the city of Liberia, province of Guanacaste, in Costa Rica.
Managua did not have an ambassador in Bogotá
Through a presidential agreement, Ortega appointed Arce Mairena as Nicaraguan ambassador in Bogotá, nine months after he canceled the appointment of Yara Suhyén Pérez Calero, who was the previous representative of Managua in Colombia.
On February 23, during the previous administration of Iván Duque, Nicaragua withdrew the credentials of Alfredo Rangel Suárez as Colombian ambassador in Managua“by meddling offensively in the internal affairs of our country”.
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Previously, Colombia ordered its ambassador in Managua to return to the country after President Ortega assured that the Andean nation is a “narco-state” where social leaders are assassinated daily.
Four months later, the Sandinista leader saluted the Colombian president, the leftist Gustavo Petro, for his victory in the elections.
Ortega accused the Duque government of not wanting to recognize a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the rights of the Central American country in the Caribbean Sea.
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Discord at sea
On April 21, the ICJ considered that Colombia had violated Nicaragua’s “sovereignty and jurisdiction” in its own Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) by authorizing fishing activities in Nicaraguan waters, and ordered it to “immediately cease” its conduct.
That same day, Duque, then president, assured that his government will not allow Nicaragua to limit the rights of his country in the Caribbean Sea, nor those of the Raizal community of the San Andrés and Providencia archipelago.
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The ruling of last April 21 has its origins in an ICJ ruling issued on November 19, 2012, by which Colombia maintained sovereignty over the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalinaas well as the keys that make it up, and conserved 12 nautical miles of the water that surrounds these territories, but lost almost 75,000 square kilometers of sea to Nicaragua.
Nicaragua then denounced before the ICJ, based in The Hague, that Colombia had violated international law by not applying that sentence because its Navy carries out operations in Caribbean waters that do not correspond to it and the Colombian Government issued the decree that established a “contiguous zone integral”.
EFE
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