The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, will not participate in today’s XXVII Iberoamerican Summit in Andorra, and thus joins the last-minute casualties of his Salvadoran counterparts, Nayib Bukele, and Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro.
According to sources in Andorra confirmed to Efe, the organizer of the event, the Nicaraguan, who had confirmed attendance, finally declined to speak at the plenary session of presidents that this time will be held in person due to the pandemic.
Ortega joins the already known casualties of the presidents of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro; Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador; and Paraguay, Mario Abdo; and the recent ones of Bukele and Maduro.
Nicaragua will be represented by its chancellor, Denis Ronaldo Montcada, and with this termination there will be 16 presidents who will participate.
In the Mexican case it will be the Chancellor, Marcelo Ebrard, who shares the position of his Government; by Paraguay, will be the Deputy Minister of External Relations, Jose Antonio do Santos; and in the case of El Salvador there will be the vice president, Félix Ulloa.
On Brazil’s side will be Kenneth Félix Nóbrega, 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 being held in a semi-face-to-face manner.
The Spanish and Portuguese delegations, which moved by geographical proximity, and Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, the previous and next headquarters of the Summit, arrived in Andorra on Tuesday.