“By sitting at the same table with a mobster like Daniel Ortega, we are legitimizing him,” he said.
The former Foreign Minister of Peru, Luis Gonzales Posada, said he did not understand why we maintain diplomatic relations with the tyrannical Nicaraguan government “presided over by an evil subject like Daniel Ortega, who murders, tortures, and imprisons opponents, including several priests, and has prohibited Holy Week processions in a country where 89% of the population is Catholic”.
Ortega, recalled the former Aprista minister, has described the Pope and the Catholic Church as a “mafia that commits crimes every day” and has broken relations with the Vatican.
In this sense, the former foreign minister considered “incomprehensible to keep the minister of the diplomatic service Alberto Massa, appointed by the coup leader Pedro Castillo on December 28, 2021, as political ambassador in Managua,” adding that “last year Nicaragua withdrew its ambassador in Lima , Marcela Pérez Silva and replaced her by a counselor minister with consular functions”.
Gonzales Posada added that “by sitting at the same table with a mobster like Ortega we are legitimizing him.”
On the other hand, the former president of Congress also stated that 150,000 Nicaraguans have moved to Costa Rica and that Ortega is part of the block of 21st century socialism and therefore – he added – he supports the reinstatement of Castillo to the presidency.
Gonzales Posada also argued that if democratic regimes continue to coexist with dictatorships such as the Venezuelan or Nicaraguan, where human rights are systematically violated, they will strengthen those regimes and thus become accomplices of those disgraceful systems.
“We must abandon diplomatic complacency and fight for democracy,” he concluded.
