Nearly every government in the Western Hemisphere lined up this week behind a push to hold Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega accountable for vowing to do away with future elections. Mexico chose not to join them.
The OAS Permanent Council approved a resolution on Aug. 19 calling for an emergency gathering of the region's foreign ministers, by a count of 29 in favor and one opposed. Brazil cast the sole "no" vote. Haiti and Venezuela weren't in the room, according to reporting from EWTN News that named the two absent delegations. Mexico neither backed nor blocked the measure, choosing instead to abstain — a move Proceso confirmed left Mexico standing apart from the rest of Latin America's major economies on the question. The measure invokes Articles 61 through 63 of the OAS Charter, tools the body typically saves for crises serious enough to warrant a unified hemispheric response, framing developments inside Nicaragua as a matter "of an urgent nature and of common interest to the American States."
