The United States condemned the withdrawal of nationality of 94 Nicaraguan opponents: “A deplorable act”

The principal official of the United States Department of State for Latin America, Brian Nicholscondemned the withdrawal of the nationality of other 94 Nicaraguansincluding writers Sergio Ramirez there Mona Lisa Bellias well as the Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Silvio Baez.

“We condemn the actions of the Nicaraguan government today to revoke the nationality of 94 other Nicaraguan citizens,” the assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs said in a message.

In the message, sent to reporters by the press office of the United States Embassy in Nicaragua, Nichols warned that “this deplorable act takes Nicaraguans further away from the democracy they deserve”.

Nicaraguan authorities stripped others of their nationality 94 Nicaraguanswith what add 317 last weekincluding the bishop Rolando Alvarezsentenced to more than 26 years in prison after refusing to be exiled by Daniel Ortega’s regime to American territory.

The others are the 222 political prisoners who were released and deported to the United States on February 9.

In the new list of 94 Nicaraguans declared stateless, in addition to Ramírez, Belli and Bishop Báez, the former commander of the revolution stands out Luis Carrion.

Also the veteran human rights defender Vilma Nunezformer chancellor Norman calderathe former Sandinista magistrate Rafael Solisformer Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS Arturo McFieldsthe journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorroamong others who have been accused of crimes considered “treason”, according to a sentence of the Court of Appeal of Managua.

In this resolution, read by the President of the Court of Appeal of Managua, ernesto rodriguezis further ordered”the immobilization and confiscation in favor of the State of Nicaragua of all real estate and companies that the defendants have registered in their favoreither in a personal capacity, or as legal persons or companies in which they participate as associates, to answer for the crimes committed.

They were also disabled in an “absolute and special manner of exercising public functions, exercising public functions in the name of or in the service of the State of Nicaragua, as well as occupying positions of popular election and the loss of their rights citizens for life, respectively,” and declared fugitives from justice, the judgment said.

Judge Rodríguez said the 94 Nicaraguans had been charged by the Public Ministry with the crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity in actual competition with the crime of spreading false news through information technology and communication, all to the detriment of the State of Nicaragua and society.

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, the fourth in a row and the second with his wife. . , Rosario Murillo. , as vice-president, with her main suitors in prison or in exile.

(With information from EFE)

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