South America

Recently, Santa Thereza became the World Assembly delegate. There is no official role for that position in South America at this time (though it should be noted it was previously held simultaneously with the position "President of South America".) There was no election: Santa Thereza became delegate by accumulation of endorsements, not an explicit election. While the office has no executive functions, this is acceptable though not ideal. I highlight this because of certain accusations made below which amount to hypocrisy in the context of the above.

Santa Thereza formerly served on the region's "administration council," (it had no official name but will be referred by that term here) being three nations—South-America, Rio Cana and Santa Thereza—who had powers to regulate the borders, the Regional Message Board (RMB), and possibly other powers also.

Earlier this year, South America was invaded. The founder, South-America, acted quickly to end this invasion. Part of the response was to impose a password on the region. This, as any long term player of NationStates will be more than aware, is a tried and tested method, utilized many times before within South America and is common across NationStates in other regions. Just days after the invasion, Santa Thereza—I understand without consultation or confirmation—unilaterally removed that password, that line of defense. For this reason alone it seems, Santa Thereza was removed from the "administration council."

Since that time, Santa Thereza has become increasingly—and needlessly, in my view—hostile, unhinged and combative towards other players in the region, myself among them. Now, I have been tagged—without my consent—in some incoherent, racist dog whistle dispatch full of falsehoods and disprovable claims, seemingly designed to instigate hatred and sow discontent in South America against certain players by someone who appears to simply be sore and salty about being removed from a position of power that they demonstrated they could not be trusted in. I believe this is a tactic to try and seize power in the region, and furthermore it makes me wonder—admittedly without evidence—whether this person might have been behind the earlier invasion mentioned above. Given false accusations have been made against myself and other players of the region being "undemocratic" (despite South America having an election which elected Santa Thereza president), this is supremely ironic and hypocritical. I worry for the future of South America with Santa Thereza in it.

I have made the relevant powers in this region aware. I consider this not only unfortunate but a great shame and disgrace of a once promising player, past and possible future leader. I hope there remains a future for Santa Thereza and that the player can pull out of their tailspin.

For this reason, I hereby express:
1) no confidence in Santa Thereza as World Assembly Delegate and
2) no confidence in Santa Thereza in any position of power or authority within South America and
3) no longer recognize Santa Thereza as a role player or member of the map in South America and formally withdraw any and all sponsorship therefrom.

In pursuit of point 3 above, Amazonas—until an apology is received and worrying behavior changed immediately and permanently—will no longer engage on any level, gameplay or personal, with Santa Thereza following the publication of this dispatch.

-AMAZONAS-