The journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro assured that the dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo reaffirm that Nicaragua has ceased to be a society in which the law and the Constitution are respected to impose only the law of revenge, caprice and hatred against citizens. . (EFE)

At least 22 Nicaraguan journalistscriticism of the regime Daniel Ortegahave been declaredtraitors to the country“and stripped of their nationality, denounced this Thursday the movement Independent journalists and communicators from Nicaragua (PCIN).

“Among the group of (317) people stripped of their nationality and all their property, there are more than 20 journalists and people dedicated to communication and the management of independent media,” the PCIN said in a statement, in which He rejected the repressive escalation of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

Among the journalists concerned are Carlos Fernando Chamorroawarded at the 38th Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award and Director of Confidencial and this week; Wilfred Miranda, contributor in Nicaragua to the Spanish newspaper El País and winner of the Ibero-American Journalism Prize of the King of Spain 2018.

Also digital media directors Lucia Pineda (100% News), Luis Galeano (Coffee with Voice), Jennifer Ortis (Nicaragua survey), Patricia Orozco (local Wave), Manuel Diaz (Nica Bacchanale), Alvaro Navarro (section 66), david quintana (Ecological Bulletin), Annibale Toruno (Radio Dario), santiago aburto (BTN News) and Jimmy Guevara (Criteria).

Also, communicators Sofia Montenegro, Silvia Nadide Gutierrez there Camilo de Castro Bellison of the poet Mona Lisa Belliwho also had his nationality withdrawn.

Among the journalists affected are Carlos Fernando Chamorro, winner of the 38th Ortega y Gasset Journalism Prize and director of Confidencial and Esta Semana; Wilfredo Miranda, contributor in Nicaragua for the Spanish newspaper El País and winner of the Ibero-American Journalism Prize of the King of Spain 2018.
Among the journalists affected are Carlos Fernando Chamorro, winner of the 38th Ortega y Gasset Journalism Prize and director of Confidencial and Esta Semana; Wilfredo Miranda, contributor in Nicaragua for the Spanish newspaper El País and winner of the Ibero-American Journalism Prize of the King of Spain 2018.

“Previously, the regime had applied the measure of deprivation of Nicaraguan nationality to people released from political prison: Michael Mendoza, Miguel Mora, Manuel Antonio Obando, Wilberto Artola, Sergio Cardenas, Cristiana Chamorro and Juan Lorenzo Holmann», this last director general of the La Prensa newspaperPCIN specified.

“From this organization we express our solidarity for each of the victims of this new arbitrary action and far from all international legality, norms and conventions,” said the organization, which indicated that article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulate that Everyone has the right to citizenship.

“They are thievessaid Lucía Pineda, one of the journalists involved and one of the first to react.

“God will give me back what they stole from me. They think they’ll silence us by taking away my nationality“Added the communicator, who assured that she was” calm, but the dictatorship and its demons are not “.

For his part, the journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro He commented in a video that with all these “criminal acts”, which are strictly prohibited by the Constitution, “the dictators Ortega and Murillo reaffirm that, for many years, Nicaragua has ceased to be a society in which the law is respected and the Constitution to impose only the law of revenge, caprice and hatred against citizens who aspire to live in a free and democratic society.

“By imposing the law of the jungle, Ortega and Murillo are digging their own graves to expose their regime’s enormous political weakness“, he condemned.

“The fugitive from justice and traitor to the homeland is Ortega. In his unbridled fury and hatred, he forgets that my nationality and my dignity are not subject to confiscation. My fight continues, the material is restored, the morale is unbreakable
“The fugitive from justice and traitor to the homeland is Ortega. In his unbridled fury and hatred, he forgets that my nationality and my dignity are not subject to confiscation. My fight continues, the material is restored, the morale is unbreakable”, commented the journalist Aníbal Toruño. (EFE)

Nevertheless, wilfredo miranda expressed that “the unleashing of our nationality sends a message of total radicalization and despair” by Ortega and Murillo.

“This revenge is of unsuspected baseness: after having persecuted and harassed us, dictators always find a way to set records of political and human savagery; scenarios without precedent in the history of Nicaragua that even the Somoza, for example, did not commit by stripping the exiles of their property (…). The traitors to the fatherland are those who go into exile, not the exiles,” he noted.

“The fugitive from justice and traitor to the homeland is Ortega. In his unbridled fury and hatred, he forgets that my nationality and my dignity are not subject to confiscation. My fight continues, the material is restored, the morale is unbreakable”, he commented, for his part, Aníbal Toruno.

“For Nicaragua and for its freedom: journalism will not stop!” wrote Jennifer Ortiz, director of Nicaragua Investiga.

Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which worsened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth in a row and second with Murillo, with his main opponents , in prison or in exile.

(With information from EFE)

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