Cuba supports Nicaragua’s “brave” decision to leave the OAS

Cuba supported this Saturday the “brave” decision of Nicaragua to leave the Organization of American States (OAS), after it disqualified the November 7 elections won by the current president of the Central American country, Daniel Ortega.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez expressed on Twitter their support for one of their important allies in the region.

Díaz-Canel considered that Nicaragua was once again giving “lessons in sovereignty and dignity, scarce values ​​in these times” by adopting the “brave” decision.

“From Cuba all the support for the brave decision to leave the Yankee Colonies Ministry, as our Foreign Minister of Dignity appointed the OAS,” wrote the Cuban statesman when referring to the former Foreign Minister Raúl Roa (1959-1976).

Rodríguez pointed out, meanwhile, that the Ortega government’s announcement to withdraw from the Washington-based body “constitutes a firm and dignified response to the maneuvers of the Secretary General (Luis Almagro) of that organization, in collusion with the United States, to try to interfere in the decisions that are the responsibility of the Nicaraguan people ”.

The OAS affirmed that the elections won by Ortega and that assured him a fifth term “were not free, fair or transparent and do not have democratic legitimacy.”

In response, the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, Denis Moncada, sent a communication to Almagro the day before denouncing the Charter of that continental body, with which, he ratified, “we are separating ourselves from the OAS.”

Nicaragua thus becomes the second country, after Venezuela, to request the exit from the OAS.

Cuba was excluded from the inter-American system in 1962 because of its links with the then Soviet communist bloc and its differences with the United States.

The members of the bloc requested the incorporation of Cuba in 2009 in the V Summit of the Americas, but the government reiterated that it had no interest in returning. EFE

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