The former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Arturo McFields asked the government of President Joe Biden to approve a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Nicaraguans who flee the country and are arriving to the United States in search of protecting his physical integrity.
«For those who come fleeing to the United States, what I ask is that they give them a TPS of hope. It is not fair that the thousands of Nicaraguans who have been fleeing the regime of terror, of violence in Nicaragua, continue to suffer hidden in the United States,” McFields said in a virtual conversation organized by the Wilson Center in Washington.
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“My cry today is for the freedom of those who are suffering degrading treatment in “El Chipote” and hope for those who are here (in the United States) and continue to suffer because they cannot earn our daily bread,” he added.
Large countries, said McFields, with robust democracies have a moral obligation to show solidarity with Nicaragua. “I mean that it is not worth it that these large countries in the OAS remain silent. It is not worth lowering their heads and saying “we have principles of non-interference.” It is not about the principle of non-interference, it is about defending the human rights of people who are suffering », he stated.
Rosario sent emissaries to tell him that he was “sold to the empire”
The former representative of Daniel Ortega asserted that for five months he communicated daily with Rosario Murillo and tried to express “positive things” to her. He stated that every time he commented on human rights and the release of prisoners, said topics were seen “under suspicion” and about 10 officials called him with messages from Rosario Murillo about what was happening to him, if he was sold to the empire.
He revealed that in the first months of the repression there were several meetings between the diplomatic delegation in the United States to address the socio-political crisis and the senior officials of the embassy said that “the right wants to throw out a legitimate government.” Those words McFields described as “indoctrination”, he says they were repeated to him daily.
In 2018, he assured that he experienced a moral crisis when the journalist Ángel Gahona died and that Ambassador Francisco Campbell told him to be “calm” that the deceased was a Sandinista and that the right had committed the crime.
