Nothing was saved: Nicaragua called Colombia a “narco-state” and brought out “fraud” in the elections

Again, Daniel Ortega's regime in Nicaragua attacked Colombia and called it a “narco-state”, within the framework of the meeting of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, better known as FAO, to be held in Ecuador on Monday, March 28.

The Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry gave the harsh criticism of that country through a vehement letter sent to Panama. This time, the Ortega government questioned the de Duque for opposing Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, being the vice-president at the FAO meeting.

According to Colombia, the Ortega regime is threatening democracy, and that is why the meeting of the Rome-based organization (GRULAC), should be held elsewhere. Those comments caused the rejection of that Central American nation, considering our country's allegations “disrespectful and interfering”.

“Our country, which acts with full respect for its domestic laws (...) denounces the constant crimes, human rights violations, terrorism, violations of the Peace Accords, murders of social leaders, electoral frauds and the shaping of the functioning of the Colombian narco-state,” said the Ministry of Relations Exteriors of that country.

In that harsh statement, they even point out that “Colombia uses its territory to sponsor (...) terrorist groups to alter the peace” in Venezuela and “murders its citizens with impunity, whose families we send our solidarity,” they added.

Elsewhere, the Nicaraguan government defended itself against the complaint of the Colombian Foreign Ministry and assured that, although there is evidence demonstrating serious violations of human rights, they do supposedly care for their citizens and respect democracy.

In addition, they did not miss an opportunity to remind the government of Iván Duque of several of the misfortunes it has faced since being in power in 2018.

Moreover, they even mentioned the various cases of police brutality that occurred in the different demonstrations in recent years: November 2019, September 2020 and from April to June 2021. “In many of them, the responsibility of members of the Colombian National Police was observed. Similarly, there have been violations of human rights involving members of the military forces,” they added, where they used several figures (without sources) to expose criticism of the nation.

What's more, they even say that paramilitarism in Colombia has committed several murders, recruited minors for war and stripped “nearly 800,000 hectares of land.”

And as a cherry on the cake, Nicaragua mentioned the scandal of alleged electoral fraud that occurred in the last legislative elections on March 13 and held the “oligarchic power” responsible for “stealing votes” in the country. “They ignored the popular will, carrying out electoral fraud in the elections,” they concluded.

The questions between the two nations arise within the framework of the 3rd session of FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean, in which Managua aspires to hold the vice-presidency, a decision with which the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by Vice-President Marta Lucia Ramírez, disagrees.

The full letter below:

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