The Government of Nicaragua, through the spokeswoman Rosario Murillo, claimed this Tuesday, the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, for actions of genocide, racism and imperialism, to the “colonialist” countries, as well as Miskito and Afro-descendant representatives of the Nicaraguan Caribbean They demanded that President Daniel Ortega “respect” their territorial rights.
“Every day is to denounce the genocide, racism and imperialism with which the colonialists of yesterday and today have tried to destroy our customs, territories and sacred rituals that belong to us in their own right,” said the Nicaraguan Executive, in a message read by Vice President Rosario Murillo, Ortega’s wife.
Without mentioning cultures or countries, Murillo said that “the never more energetic, the I accuse, with sacrosanct ancestral and current energies, faces the continuity of those brutal and inquisitorial purposes of domination and extermination.”
For their part, the so-called Alliance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples (APIAN) and the Council of Elders of the Moskitia, dedicated messages on the occasion of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, in which they highlighted local problems, such as the invasion of lands or the establishment of authorities not recognized by the Raizal peoples.
The APIAN pointed out to the Government of Nicaragua to execute “new forms of domination and subjugation”, through “the colonization of the territories and the hegemonic control of the traditional institutions of communal and territorial governance with the decapitation of their leaders and authorities” .
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The Moskitia Council of Elders pointed out that “there is not much to celebrate”, due to “the invasions of settlers in our territories, the impunity of crimes against Mother Earth and against the communities, the imposition of parallel authorities, structures that they violate the right to prior free and informed consent, the promotion of mining projects”, among others.
Nicaragua is a country of 6.6 million inhabitants, of which 8% of the population is indigenous or Afro-descendant, many of whom live in the old Moskitia, which covers the entire Nicaraguan Caribbean territory.
