Nicaragua announces break of relations with Israel

Managua (Nicaragua), October 12 (ANI): Latin American country Nicaragua has announced that it will sever diplomatic relations with Israel, Al Jazeera reported.

Latin America’s geographically largest country on October 11 made the decision public when Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo announced the move to state media after Nicaragua’s Congress passed a resolution calling for action following the anniversary of a year of the Gaza war, on October 7th. .

This contributes to Israel’s growing isolation on the global stage amid the conflict.

Al Jazeera noted that Murillo, who is the wife of President Daniel Ortega, said her husband instructed the government to “break diplomatic relations with Israel’s fascist and genocidal government.”

The announcement is largely symbolic, as Israel does not have a resident ambassador in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, and relations between the two nations are almost non-existent, Al Jazeera noted.

Nicaragua now joins the list of several other Latin American countries, such as Colombia, Chile and Bolivia, that have cut their relations with Israel in the context of the ongoing conflict in West Asia.

It is known that countries with traditionally leftist political ideology in Latin America have routinely shown support for the Palestinian cause.

Nicaragua’s government condemned Israel’s war in Gaza on Friday and said the fighting now “extends to Lebanon and seriously threatens Syria, Yemen and Iran.”

The Palestinian mission to the United Nations announced on Friday that these three nations helped spearhead a letter of support for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, whom Israel declared persona non grata last week, Al Jazeera noted.

Nicaragua’s move is in line with its previous efforts to show support for the de-escalation of the war in the Middle East. Earlier this year, in April, the Nicaraguan government led by Daniel Ortega submitted a request to the International Court of Justice to suspend German arms sales to Israel, but the case was rejected. (ANI)