Nicaragua is a not a Colony of Anyone

Today’s episode: Nicaragua Expels the Organization of
American States.. How will this impact Nicaragua and the
integration of the Americas via institutions such as CELAC (La
Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños)?


On Sunday, April 24, 2022, Nicaragua said it had closed the local
office of the Organization of American States (OAS), a US-based
group that claims to promote solidarity and cooperation
among countries in the Americas, and revoked the credentials of
several of its staff. The official Government statement
reads, in part:


"The People and Government of Nicaragua have denounced and
continue to denounce, the shameful condition of one of the
Political Instruments of intervention and domination of the State
Department of the Government of the United States, wrongly and
falsely called the Organization of American States.


"The People and Government of Nicaragua do not and will not
recognize this Instrument of Colonial Administration, which does
not represent at any time, the Sovereign Union of Our Latin and
Caribbean America, and that on the contrary, is an Instrument of
Yankee Imperialism to violate Rights and Independences,
sponsoring and promoting interventions and invasions,
legitimizing coups in different formats and modalities with the
aim, which they have not accomplished, of disintegrating through
humiliation, submission and surrender of our National
Sovereignties.


"We ratify our unwavering decision to leave the OAS, as expressed
on 19th November, 2021, and by confirming our irrevocable
denunciation and resignation, before this calamitous, truculent
and lying dependency of the State Department of Yankee
Imperialism. We also communicate that as of this date, we cease
to form part of all the deceitful Mechanisms of this monstrosity,
be it the Permanent Council, Commissions, Meetings or Summit of
the Americas...Nicaragua is not a colony of anyone."


This was a huge event for the Americas on April 24, and I am
honored for the opportunity to have discussed this in further
detail with Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister Denis Moncada who joined
us live from Managua.


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