A Nicaraguan is likely to be the next President of the United Nations General Assembly. The mechanics of that world body are geared towards sharing the post of President of the General Assembly among the regions of the planet, one of which is Latin America and the Caribbean. Nicaragua has put a former Sandinista foreign minister (in the 1980s) up for the post to be decided on in June. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, an Ortega loyalist, was one of a handful of Catholic priests chastised by the late Pope John Paul II during his visit to Nicaragua in 1983 for participating in the government. Later, that Pope prohibited all Catholic priests from holding posts in secular governments.
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