FILE PICTURE. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures during a news conference at the Old City Hall Palace, in Mexico City, Mexico January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero

More than twenty former presidents of the Ibero-American region have expressed their concern about the political position of the Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador compared to the current repression Nicaragua.

Through a display, members of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) They demonstrated against the “silence of the governments of the region”, with the exception of the Chilean and Ecuadorian presidents, Gabriel Boric and Guillermo Lasso, who condemned the actions taken by the regime of Daniel Ortega.

According to the complaint, the dictatorship in Nicaragua exiled more than 200 political prisoners and stripped them of their nationality, while it also confiscated property and “violated the citizenship rights of 94 intellectual figures”.

In turn, they took a stand against the 26-year prison sentence applied to the Bishop of Matagalpa —Monsignor Rolando Álvarez— who refused exile.

Deployment of ex-presidents against the silence of AMLO due to the repression in Nicaragua (IDEA)
Deployment of ex-presidents against the silence of AMLO due to the repression in Nicaragua (IDEA)

For their part, the signatories expressed their concern that Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “leaving aside his repeated principle of non-intervention”, disqualified the current government of Peru after the dismissal of Pedro Castillo, when he did not did not comment on the matter. Nicaragua.

“(AMLO) accuses the democratic and provisional government of Peru of being deceitful in order to avoid transferring to it the presidency pro tempore of the Pacific Alliance, while remaining silent on the exercise and violations of human rights perpetrated by the Ortega-Murillo couple in Nicaragua,” reads the screen.

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