Nicaragua confirms it is leaving OAS - Breaking The News

Nicaragua confirms it is leaving OAS

25 April

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Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada announced his country is leaving the Organization of American States (OAS), a Panamerican international organization with a seat in Washington DC that comprises 35 nations.

Moncada added the organization's headquarters in Managua has already been closed. He stressed that Nicaragua does not wish to be a member of "the diabolical instrument of evil called the OAS," which the government labeled as a "calamitous, truculent and lying dependency of the State Department of Yankee imperialism."

Managua announced its intention to step down from the OAS back in November after 25 out of 35 members of the alliance supported the resolution that condemned the presidential election in Nicaragua, which saw the victory of Daniel Ortega.

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