The resolution of 25 nations in the Organization of American States (OAS) that declared that the Nicaraguan elections have no legitimacy and the abstention of seven other countries show the degree of isolation in which the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo finds itself, affirms the former president of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solís.
The former president believes that the moment has been reached when not even his old allies can use old concepts such as being from the “left” or “socialism” to try to justify when their aggression against the Nicaraguan people or the demolition of democracy is evident. in the country.
“I believe that isolation is increasing. It seems to me that the Ortega and Murillo regime cannot hide behind a supposed ideological adherence that has allowed it, up to now, to have the support of certain parties and governments in our region, “said Solís, in an interview on the program. This week, which airs online today Sunday because of the regime’s censorship.
Recently two South American parties – the Chilean Communist Party, and the Brazilian Workers Party, to which the old labor leader and former president of that country Luis Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva is affiliated – retracted previous statements by other members of their organizations. , supporting the electoral “triumph” of Ortega.
In the Chilean case, the presidential candidate of the alliance Approve Dignity Gabriel Boric, distanced himself from the support that a statement signed by the communist party gave to the “legitimacy” of Ortega, and indicated that it would be a statement without consultation with other members and party sections.
Boric called on the Communist Party to recant and later the deputy of that party Camila Vallejo declared: “This statement was not discussed or resolved by the collective leadership of the party. We condemn human rights violations in Nicaragua, Chile and anywhere in the world.
What happened in Brazil is very similar: after a note was published on the website of the Workers’ Party saluting the “Nicaraguan elections” considering that they were “a great popular and democratic demonstration.” The party’s president, Gleise Hoffman, ordered the publication to be withdrawn, demonstrating the degree of isolation of the regime.
Both Boric and ‘Lula’ are presidential candidates in their countries, and congratulating a dictatorship like that of Ortega and Murillo, opened a flank of criticism that their political rivals took advantage of.
Former President Solís believes that “it is increasingly evident that socialism cannot be an accomplice of that failed election due to its atrocious illegality, and that within these movements – or some of their leaders – there is enough lucidity to understand that it is a disservice to them. they do to the progressive forces, who refuse to see in the Ortega regime what it really is: an atrocious autocracy that does a lot of damage not only to Nicaragua, but also to democracy and the democratic principles that many of these movements and parties say , at least, invoke ”.
In January 2019, after the brutal repression of the protests, the Council of the Socialist International (SI), meeting in the Dominican Republic, decided to expel the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the Nicaraguan government party, for the violations human rights and democratic values committed by the Ortega regime.
“Socialism is incompatible with tyranny,” the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) wrote in its international account.
Solís thinks that an eventual suspension of Nicaragua at the OAS, I would dent in the country’s relationship with the Central American Bank of Economic Integration (CABEI), but also with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). “It seems to me that being as it is, it is deplorable that the citizens of Nicaragua may be affected by resolutions that will undoubtedly affect public finances even more, it is a step that cannot be postponed or avoided.”
International pressure
The former president acknowledges that the international community – led by the OAS – is doing what it has – and can – do, although that is probably not enough, as recent experience shows, especially when trying to bring down the regime. from Venezuela.
His criterion is that the OAS is doing the right thing, which is to implement the procedures and exhaust the protocols that go as far as the suspension of a country. Once that step has been completed – and Solís hopes that it will happen before the end of the month – “it will be necessary to guarantee that international pressure is produced”, whether it leads to negotiations or the collapse of the regime and gives way to a true democracy.
“I would like to emphasize that the democratic opposition in Nicaragua has said that this transition must be peaceful, an element that has been reiterated by all the leaderships, all the truly democratic parties in Nicaragua, and it seems important to make it noticeable,” he explained.
From his experience, Solís hopes that the mechanisms of diplomatic, political and economic pressure add up, “and if international solidarity and a kind of general will in the international system to accompany them are added to them, the result is that the regime has to give in. ”. Although he acknowledges that this has not been the case in other cases such as Venezuela, which he considers the most notorious in recent times.
However, he hopes that the result will be different, considering that “Nicaragua is not Venezuela, and neither is the rude way in which the regime has mistreated the Nicaraguan people and the international community with the weekend picks”.
For this reason, Solís believes that “the effects, the impacts, can be important, or at least that is what we should expect. It is necessary to make the decisions that have to be taken, and to hope that the regime will submit without so much stubbornness … to the new conditions prevailing in the hemisphere ”.
After Ortega’s statements, calling “sons of bitches“To his political hostages, the former Costa Rican president believes that”very bad hours left for political prisoners. We all feel not only outraged by those statements made to us fear for the lives of political prisoners, because there are among those politicians many very brave women, who are there suffering the attacks of the regime ”.
In the process, he emphasizes that “Costa Rica has to play a leading role in the conjunction of hemispheric efforts in favor of democracy ”, not only because of the physical proximity between both nations, but also because of the sociological, cultural and economic connection that exists, although it warns that“ there are objective limits in the country’s economy ” , especially if 100,000 or 150,000 more people arrive, fleeing the dictatorship.
Watch the interview today at This week
