The poet Gioconda Belli accepted the offer of Chilean nationality made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the South American country. The news was released by Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola on her Twitter account. The novelist is part of the 94 people who were stripped of her nationality on February 15.
“Chilean solidarity has embraced us Nicaraguans who have been stripped of our nationality and of everything we possess in Nicaragua. It is an violation of human rights, we do not recognize it, we do not recognize that they can take away the land where we were born, the right we have to be Nicaraguans,” Belli told the Chilean outlet Cooperativa.
“I thank President (Gabriel) Boric, Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola, and all those who have extended their hand to offer us Nicaraguans Chilean nationality. Chile has a deep bond with Nicaragua from Rubén Darío to Pablo Neruda. I have many friends and people I love in Chile and that is why I am going to take Chilean nationality. If there is another country that I feel with all my heart, as close, it is Chile,” Belli added when accepting the nationality of the South American country.
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The poet stated that Nicaraguans will continue to fight for democracy and freedom. «We are not going to be intimidated. We are going to continue dreaming of a free country”, she affirmed.
Foreign Minister Urrejola stated that “despite the sad circumstances, it is an honor that this tremendous Nicaraguan poet, writer and feminist accepts to be Chilean. Excited to talk this morning with my dear friend Gioconda Belli, who I admire so much.”
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I am not this document. I am Gioconda BelliI am a Nicaraguan poet. And when history has forgotten these tyrants, I will still be in my books as a Nicaraguan poet,” the writer said on February 19 while taking a pair of scissors with which she cut the first page of the Nicaraguan passport in front of the security cameras. a Spanish television
“This passport does not make me Nicaraguan (…) Let it be clear that they are not going to intimidate me, I am not going to stop being who I am because I do not have this document,” he said. Gioconda Belli to the Spanish Radio and Television (RTVE).
She explained that the Ortega-Murillo regime cannot strip her of her nationality by reforming article 21 of the Political Constitution that was expressly approved after the exile of 222 political prisoners to the United States. He maintained that the Political Constitution of Nicaragua is only changed in two periods, so the express reform “has no value.”
