Prior to the 53rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), to be held between June 21 and 23, a group of 54 Nicaraguans, of the 317 who have been declared stateless by the Sandinista regime, released an open letter in the one that rejects the attempts of the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of Brazil, which seeks to soften a resolution presented by five other countries that make up the Follow-up Group on the crisis in Nicaragua, against the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega.
They denounce that the proposals presented by the Brazilian government “seek to question the unprecedented brutality applied by the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship against thousands of citizens; —in addition— they offend relatives of those murdered and all the victims of the repression of the totalitarian State of Ortega and Murillo”.
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They also called on the countries represented in the OAS “to be consistent with the declarations issued in previous Assemblies; to respect the investigations carried out by expert organizations of the inter-American system (GREN and MESENI), the IACHR and the universal human rights system (the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Group of Experts for Nicaragua , GREHN).
On the other hand, the signatories of the letter demanded that the OAS delegations declare the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo illegitimate, since they affirm that the “presidential victory” is the “result of an electoral masquerade in 2021.”
Journalist Camilo de Castro Bellithe son of a Nicaraguan mother and a Brazilian father, declared stateless by the Daniel Ortega regime, sent a letter to the Brazilian Embassy in Costa Rica to reject the support that the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has given Ortega to the Organization of American States (OAS) prior to the 53rd General Assembly, where the issue of Nicaragua will be addressed.
Through the letter, addressed to the Brazilian ambassador in the neighboring country to the south, Antonio Alves Jr. The son of the poet Gioconda Belli —also declared stateless— protested against the proposed resolution presented to the OAS Permanent Council by the Government of Brazil, which qualifies as “supposed” the confiscation of his property and that of 300 exiled Nicaraguans.
He recalled that, like the Nicaraguan writer, the Ortega government included him in the recent measure “that revoked the nationality of 94 citizens of that country, which also implied the confiscation of my house, thus violating my human rights as a Nicaraguan citizen.” and as a Brazilian citizen.
In Nicaragua, respiratory diseases have increased with the start of the rainy season, as confirmed by independent experts.
The Ministry of Health (Minsa), for its part, provided the weekly report on COVID-19, a disease that still persists in our country. According to the official report, this week there are 54 positive cases.
The epidemiologist Leonel Argüello believes that there could be more cases in the country, which are not counted due to the lack of scope of the test, although the epidemic has disappeared, the transmission of cases continues, due to relaxing the isolation measures, confirms Argüello .
