Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega will not attend today’s XXVII Ibero-American Summit in Andorra and joins the last-minute victims of his Salvadoran counterparts, Nayib Bukele, and Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro.
As confirmed to Efe sources in Andorra, the organizer of the event, the Nicaraguan, who confirmed his presence, finally refused to speak in the plenary session of the presidents that this time it will be mixed due to the pandemic.
Ortega joins the already known victims of the presidents of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro; Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador; and Paraguay, Mario Abdo; and the recent ones by Bukele and Maduro.
Nicaragua will be represented by its foreign minister, Denis Ronaldo Moncada, and with this withdrawal, 16 presidents will participate.
In the Mexican case, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard will share his government’s position; on behalf of Paraguay, he will be Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Antonio do Santos; and in the case of El Salvador will be the vice president, Félix Ulloa.
On Brazil’s side, Kenneth Félix Nóbrega, secretary of bilateral negotiations in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, will appear.
The meeting, scheduled for November last year but postponed due to the pandemic, remains mixed.
The Spanish and Portuguese delegations arrived in Andorra on Tuesday, due to geographical proximity, and in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, the previous and next Summit.