The Government of Chile offered this Tuesday, February 21, Chilean nationality to the 317 Nicaraguan citizens who were declared “stateless” by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
“Given the recent decision of the State of Nicaragua to deprive her of her nationality and rights politicians to more than three hundred Nicaraguan people, identiregistered as opponents policies, the Government of Chile will arbitrate the necessary legal means to offer them the due international protection, which allows them to reside in the country and obtain nationality according to the constitutional and legal normsales that regulate it”, indicated the Foreign Ministry of the South American country.
The Chilean Foreign Ministry pointed out that the Government “makes this alternative available to those who have been unjustly expatriated from Nicaragua and voluntarily decide to take it”.
Press release by Nicaraguans deprived of their nationality
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— Chile Foreign Ministry ?? (@Minrel_Chile) February 21, 2023
“The history of our country has taught us that the defense of democracy and thethe rights human rights, and international solidarity among peoples, transcend the conjunctures policies and are part of essential civilizing standards for life in society”, they indicate in their press release.
They specify that the Ministries of Relations foreign and of the Inside and safeity public, by instructions from President Gabriel Boric “will take the corresponding measures with the fin to implement this decision.”
Argentina willing to give citizenship to “stateless”
The Argentine Government affirmed this Tuesday that it is in a position to grant Argentine citizenship to any of the Nicaraguans who have been deprived of their nationality by the Ortega Administration.
The statement made this Tuesday by the Argentine Foreign Minister, Santiago Cafiero, was in response to the statement by the Nicaraguan writer and Cervantes Literature Prize winner Sergio Ramírez, who indicated that if Argentina offered nationality, he would become Argentine.
“If Ramírez asks for Argentine citizenship, we will give it to him,” Cafiero told Con Vos radio.
The Argentine foreign minister added that “to him and to all those who are suffering from what is happening in Nicaragua.”
The official explained that “the procedure” is “personal”, so although Argentina is willing to grant citizenship to the affected Nicaraguans, they “have to request it.”
Ramírez told the Clarín newspaper that Argentina had not responded to the letter in which a group of intellectuals and political leaders urged the international community on February 17 “to speak out and assume an active role in all actions that may lead to to the cessation of the abuses and violations of human rights committed by the Ortega-Murillo regime”.
The Nicaraguan writer added that the government of Alberto Fernández did not respond to a letter from the day before that the Argentine intellectuals gathered in “The discussion table on human rights, democracy and society” in which they request that Argentine citizenship be granted to 317 Nicaraguans. thrown “to the condition of stateless”.
The presidential spokesperson, Gabriela Cerruti, reaffirmed this Tuesday on her Twitter account that “the Argentine government is willing to grant Argentine citizenship” to Ramírez and Belli and “all those who are suffering from what is happening in Nicaragua.”
The Argentine government is willing to grant Argentine citizenship to @sergioramirezm @GiocondaBelliP and all those who are suffering from what is happening in Nicaragua. https://t.co/nBaibxcjJT
— Gabriela Cerruti (@gabicerru) February 21, 2023
Spain already made the same proposal
The Government of Spain extended the offer to grant Spanish nationality to Nicaraguan citizens who were declared “stateless” by the regime, including human rights defender Vilma Núñez; the writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli; and the director of CONFIDENTIAL and this week, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, and his wife Desiree Elizondo.
The proposal of the Spanish Government is extended “to any citizen of Nicaragua who in the future may be left stateless due to the decisions” of the Ortega Executive.
With information from EFE
