The serious human rights violations that have been occurring in Nicaragua, since April 18, 2018, by the Government of Daniel Ortega “remain in complete impunity” and “continue to deepen,” denounced the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) .
According to the agency, four years after the protests that marked the beginning of the crisis political, social and human rights in the Central American country, the serious violations of human rights and the progressive breach of the rule of law “continue to deepen.”
The demonstrations that demanded the resignation of Daniel Ortega paralyzed Nicaragua for five months, leaving more than 300 dead and more than 100,000 exiles, according to the IACHR, which also noted that after these protests, Nicaragua lives in “a de facto state of exception and the persistence of impunity.”
The body, which has the mandate to promote the observance of human rights in the region, explained in its last report that the Ortega Administration seeks to “perpetuate itself indefinitely in power, and maintain its privileges and immunities, in a context of corruption, electoral fraud, and structural impunity.”
Ortega, 76 years old and in power since 2007, is in his fourth consecutive termwhile many of his opponents are jailedaccused of conspiring against his government with the support of the United States.
Events that add to the cancellation of various opposition parties, NGOs, private universities and independent newspapers; as well as a series of reforms to the country’s laws, approved by the ruling party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
from exile
“A lot of things hurt,” he told the voice of americaEnrique Martínez, a Nicaraguan student exiled in Costa Rica and who participated in the 2018 protests.
For Martínez, despite the pain of what has been lost, the cancellations and closures of educational centers, Nicaraguan students continue to “demand justice” from exile and they will not stop asking for it.
“We tell the dictatorship that we are not going to give up, that we are going to continue demanding justice, freedom and democracy in Nicaragua from inside and outside the country.” He assured him.
Some 71 social organizations join the same claim by the young Nicaraguan, which, through a statement, once again denounced that more than 171 people remain deprived of their liberty and that thousands more have gone into exile due to “repression.”
The organizations, among which are Articulation of Movements
Sociales and the Committee for the Liberation of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Nicaragua (CPLPPN), called on the international community not to leave the people of Nicaragua alone.
“In these four years of intense work, it is clear to us that the international community can and must continue to contribute to the return of democracy in Nicaragua,” the document cites, later adding that “the fall of the dictatorship will only be possible through concerted work and well organized between
international community and the unified opposition of Nicaragua,” they concluded.
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