Paul Herbert Oquist Kelley (1942/43 – 13 April 2021) was a Nicaraguan politician, Secretary of the Presidency and considered the principal advisor to President Daniel Ortega.

Biography

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He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. and began working with Daniel Ortega in president's first term in the 1980s.[1]

Oquist was the climate envoy for Nicaragua during the COP21 conference, and opposed Nicaragua joining the Paris Agreement. He cited his opposition to nationally determined contributions being voluntary.[2]

On 9 October 2020, the U.S Department of the Treasury sanctioned Oquist and other Sandinists officials, stating that "[he] plays a lead role in spreading disinformation to cover up the regime’s crimes and misdeeds of horrific human rights abuses".[3] Oquist was one of Ortega's main operators before different international forums, where he claimed that the opposition protests calling for the president's ouster in 2018 were an attempted coup d'état.[1]

It is said that during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nicaragua, Oquist was the one who devised the president's decision not to decree a national lockdown as he considered the COVID-19 pandemic an invention of capitalist countries to solve internal problems, this according to Dora María Téllez.[1]

Oquist died on 13 April 2021, at the Alejando Dávila Bolaño military hospital in Managua from COVID-19. He was 78.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Muere Paul Oquist, el estadounidense sandinista y brazo derecho de Ortega en Nicaragua" (in Spanish). France 24. 13 April 2021.
  2. ^ Cabral, Angelica (2017-06-01). "Why Isn't Nicaragua Part of the Paris Agreement?". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  3. ^ "Treasury Sanctions Nicaraguan Financial Institution and Officials Supporting Ortega Regime". United States Department of the Treasury. 9 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Muere por coronavirus el principal asesor político del presidente nicaragüense, Daniel Ortega". Europa Press (in Spanish). 13 April 2021.


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The Australia Institute

Hamilton, who ran as a Greens candidate in 2009, former executive director Ben Oquist and current executive director Richard Denniss, both of whom previously

Climate change in Nicaragua

country initially did not ratify the agreement, due to its climate envoy Paul Oquist's opposition to the voluntary nature of nationally determined contributions

Sarah Hanson-Young

had charged taxpayers almost $50,000 for 78 flights for her husband Ben Oquist to travel to and from Canberra where he works as a political lobbyist for

1987 NCAA Division I baseball tournament

Benjamin, Blas Minor, Mike Schwabe, Tim Spehr Arkansas: Jimmy Kremers, Mike Oquist, Tim Sherrill Florida State: Rafael Bournigal, Matt Dunbar, Richie Lewis

Miguel Cairo

expansion draft. He hit his first home run on April 28, 1998, off of Mike Oquist for the Oakland Athletics. He spent three seasons with the Devil Rays, playing