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Nicaragua announces withdrawal from Central American Parliament

The foreign ministry said the withdrawal takes immediate effect after an OAS resolution called for political prisoners to be freed.

  • Nicaragua announced its withdrawal from the Central American Parliament on Saturday, citing the "full exercise of its sovereignty" in a foreign ministry statement that took immediate effect.
  • The decision followed a Friday resolution from the Organization of American States that called on Nicaraguan authorities to free political prisoners and restore civil liberties.
  • Nicaragua previously withdrew from the OAS in 2023 and left the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2025, establishing a pattern of international isolation.
  • President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, announced the end of elections Last July, consolidating power as Ortega has governed since 2007.
  • Political instability has gripped Nicaragua since April 2018, when police suppressed social protests resulting in more than 350 deaths and 2,000 injuries.
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Guatemala City, Oct. 8 (EFE).- The intention of a member state to withdraw unilaterally from the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), as announced by Nicaragua, is legally impracticable and has no automatic effect, warned EFE deputies of the organization, noting that the Constitutional Treaty lacks an explicit denunciation clause. [...] The entry of deputies of the Central American Parliament tachan of unfeasible unilateral exit from Nicaragu…

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The Nicaraguan Government formalized its immediate withdrawal from the Central American Parliament, considering that the organization does not meet the objectives and benefits families, a decision that received the full support of the nation's deputies' bench before the regional body.

·Caracas, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
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The Co-President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, reported that the country's participation in the Central American Parliament (PARLASEN) had ceased immediately, explaining the decision to protect national sovereignty. "We have notified the Central American Parliament with all due respect of the immediate termination of our agreement to participate in that organization, which we regret has failed to achieve its objectives and fulfil its functions …

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The Central American Forum, based in Guatemala City and whose resolutions are not binding, is completed by the host country, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama and the Dominican Republic.

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diariolahuella.com broke the news on Saturday, October 3, 2026.
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