The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, reiterated from Argentina his strong criticism of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua, assuring that his government will defend human rights on the continent regardless of the political position of the country that violates them.
“It seems to me that the repression in Nicaragua against opponents of the Ortega regime is absolutely unacceptable…” Boric said in an interview with Infobae from Buenos Aires, where the Chilean leftist leader visited his Argentine counterpart Alfredo Fernández.
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The president also lamented that the situations in Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba are used by some sectors to attack the governments of their own countries, emphasizing that human rights violations are a universal issue.
«I see with irritation how in each country they try to use the human rights crises in other countries to make internal politics and finally it seems that they do not give a damn about the fellow student leader who is suffering in a prison in Nicaragua, what matters to them is try to make a point in internal politics to try to hit the government in power”, pointed out the president, who during his visit to Argentina regretted that the journalists only asked about Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba when in other Latin American countries there are also violations of human rights.
Boric clearly pointed out that the last general elections held in Nicaragua lacked any democratic normality. “It seems to me that the last elections in Nicaragua do not meet any democratic standard,” he stressed. In this way, the leftist leader reiterated what he had said since before winning the presidential election.
Do not go back, do not double standard with Nicaragua
Two days before his arrival in Argentina, Gabriel Boric criticized part of the Latin American left that his questioning of the Ortega-Murillo regime in Nicaragua could make ugly and reiterated that to be credible, the progressive forces of Latin America must condemn the violations to human rights regardless of whether or not related governments commit it.
«I regret this controversy, but I believe that the left, in order to present itself to the world, has to have an unequivocal position and a single standard in terms of respect for Human Rights. It cannot be that when Human Rights are violated by governments that are considered sympathetic, we look aside and when they are violated by governments that we consider adversaries, we shout to the sky, “explained the president to the newspaper Página 12 of Buenos Aires.
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Boric, who represents the so-called new Latin American left, explained that his criticism of the Nicaraguan dictatorship will not back down as long as the Managua government continues its authoritarian drift.
“In order for our commitment to be credible, we must have the same standard and, clearly, what has happened in Nicaragua where the last elections took place with an important part of the opposition candidates imprisoned and not only the opposition candidates, but figures historical figures such as Dora María Téllez or the case of Sergio Ramírez, a persecuted man who cannot enter Nicaragua. It is simply unacceptable and therefore I am not going to back down from my position, “emphasized the Chilean president.
