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St. Joseph– The Nicaraguan government reported on Wednesday that its candidate did not receive enough votes among Central American countries to be elected as the new Secretary-General of the Central American Integration System (SICA), a position that has been vacant since November 2023.
The Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release that a meeting of foreign ministers was held this Wednesday to decide on the proposal submitted to the region’s president for the SICA General Secretariat, pending since November 16, 2023, but that no consensus could be reached.
According to the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the seat corresponds to the “People and Government of Nicaragua” in accordance with the Central American Integration System’s order of rights and institutions.
Managua explained that “the meeting was unable to reach a consensus due to the ongoing consultations among the governments of our region”.
“We reiterate to the members of the system that with each day that passes without the General Secretariat, the Central American Integration System becomes weaker and weaker, and it is logical that each country and each government would look for alternative mechanisms to carry out their efforts unilaterally,” the Sandinista National Liberation Front executive said.
He added: “As we say, this leads to a gradual impoverishment of the management that our region could have done more effectively, from the point of view of integration and alliance.”
Before that vote, Nicaraguan opposition groups such as the Nicaraguan Democratic Coordination (CDN-Montevideo) asked the Central American foreign ministers not to elect the candidate of the government led by Daniel Ortega as the new Secretary-General of the Central American Integration System because they believed that he would ally with the organization, align himself with the Sino-Russian bloc and “draw the Central American region into global conflicts, putting its security at risk.”
Former Vice-Chancellor Valdrack Jaentschke refused
In particular, the opposition group rejected the election of Valdrack Jaentschke, Nicaraguan Advisory Minister for Policy and International Affairs, as the new secretary-general of SICA, whom the opposition considers an intelligence agent and political operative loyal to the Sandinista government and who was one of the three candidates proposed by Ortega.
The SICA General Secretariat has been vacant since mid-November 2023, with the resignation of Nicaraguan lawyer Werner Vargas for the 2022-2026 period, who was appointed on the basis of Nicaragua’s proposal.
Subsequently, President Ortega proposed Janczyk to serve as the new Secretary-General of SICA and to complete the corresponding term in Managua.
The other two candidates from the Nicaraguan government are, in that order, Violeta Elias Nelson from the Office of the Attorney General for the Defense of Human Rights and Iris Marina Montenegro Brandon, the official representative.
In its statement, Nicaragua thanked Central America “for our continued efforts to reach consensus on strengthening the Central American Integration System and to serve our peoples, who struggle with poverty, the main enemy of a secure, peaceful life with rights and well-being”.
He also proposed a new meeting to reach “an increasingly necessary decision that can no longer be postponed unless Central America decides to abolish rather than strengthen this system.”
“On the other hand, not to decide accordingly would be tantamount to not recognizing the right of our people to an integrated body represented by the General Secretariat as independent nations and peoples, walking together, creating together, who want the dignified future and progress that our heroes, Central American families and communities deserve,” he concluded.
SICA was established in Tegucigalpa in 1991, with Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic as full members, and Mexico, the United States and other countries as regional observers. JS
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