The Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States, Arturo McFields, denounced this Wednesday “the dictatorship” of the Government of Daniel Ortega in the middle of a surprising speech at the beginning of a regular session of the OAS Permanent Council.
The also journalist stated that he was taking the floor to defend the “more than 177 political prisoners and more than 350 people who have lost their lives in my country since 2018.” Also, that he was doing it on behalf of officials forced to “pretend, fill bellies and repeat slogans because if they don’t, they lose their jobs”.
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McFields confessed that he is afraid, but “I have to speak up, even if my future and that of my family are uncertain.”
“Denouncing the dictatorship of my country is not easy, but continuing to remain silent and defending the indefensible is impossible,” said McFields, who until now had defended the Nicaraguan government when it was criticized in OAS meetings.
The ambassador maintained that days before Nicaragua announced its “final withdrawal” from the OAS in November 2021, there was a virtual meeting between the Foreign Ministry and a team of presidential advisers.
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McFields recounted that he suggested at that meeting that consideration be given to releasing at least 20 elderly political prisoners and other inmates whose health merited special consideration. “No one paid attention to me. At that moment I was told: ‘we are not even going to take note of that comment because you know what can happen,’ he said.
“In the government no one listens and no one speaks.” What is happening in Nicaragua exceeds my few diplomatic capacities”added the Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS Permanent Council.
Despite the critical situation the country is going through, McFields also stressed that “there is hope” because people are tired of the dictatorship. “There are going to be more and more people who say ‘enough,'” he concluded.
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McFields Yescasgraduated as a graduate in Social Communication at the Jesuit Central American University (UCA), replaced Ambassador Luis Exequiel Alvarado Ramírez in October last year, whose appointment was nullified.
“Appoint Comrade Arturo McFields Yescas as permanent representative of the Republic of Nicaragua, with the rank of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS)”, according to a presidential agreement published in the Official Gazette, La Gaceta.