The two resolutions adopted yesterday by the International Labor Conference (CIT), which criticize the violation of labor, union and business rights by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship and demand the restitution of the illegal business chambers and unions, They constitute a “resounding defeat” against a disgraceful regime that violates human rights, commented analysts, businessmen and defenders of the rights of Nicaraguan workers.
For the economist, opposition leader and former politician, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo suffered a “resounding defeat” at the international level because the CIT, in which tripartite representations from all over the world participate “is unaware of the presence and the report of the Ortega delegation» and takes up complaints that had already been made in past meetings about abuses against workers, unions and employers.
Chamorro analyzes that the resolutions are “quite forceful” when reaffirming that all the violations of the labor agreements that Nicaragua has signed within the framework of the ILO, are derived from the political crisis that the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has caused.
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Likewise, it emphasizes that Ortega committed a “clumsiness” that places him in a position of “shame and ridicule” worldwide, by sending an alleged “business representation” to the highest summit of the International Labor Organization (ILO) when in this In the same year, it has eliminated all the business chambers in the country. In addition, the regime sent the Conference to the white unions to try to wash its face. “It is an absolute clumsiness of the dictatorship,” he remarked.
ILO recommends to the UN
For his part, lawyer José López, defender of workers and labor attorney, in exile, pointed out that the CIT has put its finger on the sore point by clearly defining that the Ortega regime has violated conventions 87 referring to freedom of union and employer organizations and 111, on labor and occupational discrimination.
The defender believes that in Nicaragua “there is no freedom of association” or unions that raise their voices for the working class. “There are only groups led by Sandinistas such as the Central Sandinista de Trabajadores (CST), the National Front of Workers (FNT), which are not unions but arms of shock and political agitation” of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the party of the dictator Ortega.
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López explained that the resolutions of the CIT-ILO are of great importance because, “although the ILO does not have coercive sanctioning force, it does make recommendations in the context of the United Nations (UN), to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). and other UN agencies and there are repercussions for the dictatorship because it would mean blocking loans, aid and other agreements ».
Cosep must be restored
While, for a Nicaraguan businessman and former member of one of the chambers of the outlawed Superior Council for Private Enterprise (Cosep), who agreed to speak with Article 66 On condition of anonymity, the fact that the most important ILO world conference has adopted two resolutions against the Ortega-Murillo regime should be a message to the dictator that the entire world is watching him and measuring his dictatorial actions.
The businessman said that it would be difficult for a totalitarian and radical dictator like Ortega to retract his repressive actions, however, the entire world is doing the right thing, pressing for Nicaragua to recover its democracy and considers that “Cosep must be restored,” because like more than 3,000 NGOs and Foundations, it was arbitrarily outlawed.
