Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega will not attend today’s XXVII Ibero-American Summit in Andorra, joining the last-minute victims of his Salvadoran counterparts, Nayib Bukele, and the Venezuelan, Nicolás Maduro.
As confirmed by Andorra-based Efe sources, the event’s organizer, the Nicaraguan, who had confirmed his presence, ultimately declined to speak in the plenary of presidents that will be held mixed this time due to the pandemic.
Ortega joins the already known victims of Brazil’s presidents, Jair Bolsonaro; Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador; and Paraguay, Mario Abdo; and the recent one by Bukele and Maduro.
Nicaragua will be represented by its Secretary of State, Denis Ronaldo Moncada, and with this withdrawal, 16 presidents will participate.
In the case of Mexico, it is the Secretary of State, Marcelo Ebrard, who shares his government’s position; for Paraguay, it will be the Deputy Minister of External Relations, Jose Antonio do Santos; and in the case of El Salvador, there is the vice president, Félix Ulloa.
On the Brazil side, Kenneth Félix Nóbrega will appear, secretary of bilateral negotiations in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
The meeting, scheduled for November last year but postponed due to the pandemic, is held mixed.
The Spain and Portugal delegations arrived on Tuesday in Andorra, which had relocated due to its geographic proximity, and Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, the summit’s previous and next headquarters.