Nicaragua quits OAS over Ortega re-election criticism, says it is not a 'colony'

FILE PHOTO: Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks during the closing ceremony of the 17th Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) Summit in Havana, Cuba, December 14, 2019. Jorge Luis Banos/Pool via REUTERS

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's government on Sunday said it had completed its withdrawal from the Organization of American States (OAS), which had criticized last year's re-election of President Daniel Ortega as illegitimate.

Nicaragua's government also said it had closed the local OAS office and revoked the credentials of several of its OAS representatives.