The Government of Colombia repudiated this Thursday “the dictatorial procedures” of the Government of Daniel Ortega, which withdrew the nationality of 317 people and still holds 35 political prisoners, and asked the International Criminal Court “to take action on such an alarming matter.”
“Colombia, which in recent decades has fought tirelessly to achieve peace, much more so now that it intends to be a world power of life, rejects the dictatorial procedures of those who bring to mind the worst moments of the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship. that Sandinismo managed to overcome”, lamented the Foreign Ministry of the Government of Gustavo Petro in a statement.
In the document they express their “revulsion” at “the measures taken arbitrarily” by President Ortega against people “whose only crime has been to defend democracy, the right to criticism and universal human rights.”
“The authoritarianism that has been imposed on the sister republic has infringed jus cogens norms. Those of which it has been defined that they are prevailing, irrevocable, absolute, peremptory, immutable in essence. Precisely those whose violations the International Criminal Court should know about”, added the Foreign Ministry.
They call the whole world to react
“After having exiled his fellow citizens in a surprising and inhumane way, some of whom are recognized for their struggles by the international community, all of this using vulgar police measures, the one who managed to point out that never outside remains in the sacred Nicaraguan land,” said the Government. Colombian in reference to the Bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, who was sentenced to 26 years in prison one day after refusing to be banished from Nicaragua.
“Colombia calls on the entire world to react,” they insist. For this reason, they demand that the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, request “authorization to visit those who are still detained.”
Regarding prisoners of conscience, they mention that “they are victims” and “international humanitarian law covers them.”
The Government of Petro indicated that it “seeks to get in touch with those who, having been abused by the intolerant power of Nicaragua, would like to gain Colombian nationality”, as already happened with the writer Sergio Ramírez this week in Madrid.
