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