The elected president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, reconsidered the appointment of an ambassador to Nicaragua, after the regime of Daniel Ortega violated diplomatic norms by confiscating the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS), located in Managua. At a press conference, Chaves retracted, pointing out that his future government was only “considering the possibility” of the appointment.
The Nicaraguan dictatorship preferred to hand over the furniture, equipment, files and other belongings of the OAS to the organization’s administrative officials, after the expropriation of the building where the organization worked in Managua.
Related note: They urge the OAS to “act without contemplation” and declare Ortega illegitimate
Despite the raised tone of the national authorities against the OAS, the Attorney General’s Office reported that “these belongings have not been used or violated by anyone.” The clarification of the entity occurs after the member states of the continental organization condemned the act for violating basic diplomatic norms.
Some twenty Nicaraguan opposition organizations asked the OAS to convene an extraordinary session of the General Assembly to declare the Government of Nicaragua illegitimate and request the release of political prisoners in the country, in response to the attack by the Ortega regime against the organization in Managua.
Through a letter sent to the OAS, the opponents warned that, if they did not react firmly, “an unprecedented threat to the democracies of the region” would be established.
The Human Rights Collective Nicaragua Never Again noted that the “level of brutality and repression” by the state persists in the country. The sixth report of the Torture Observatory, presented this Friday by the humanitarian organization, details that, from December 2021 to March of this year, they documented ten cases of political prisoners who do not receive adequate medical care and are in unsanitary and unhealthy conditions. inhuman.
Likewise, some inmates have been beaten and threatened in the prisons, and another group has limited family visits. The Human Rights Collective also denounced other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment.
Related note: Torture and repression “demonstrate the inhumanity and cruelty” of the Ortega regime, defenders denounce
businessmen and political prisoners Michael Healey Y Alvaro Vargas they were found guilty by Sandinista judge Ángel Jeancarlos Fernández González. The Prosecutor’s Office requested new years in prison against Vargas for allegedly undermining national integrity, and 13 years for Healy for alleged conspiracy to undermine national integrity.
Human rights defender Marcos Carmona went into exile in Costa Rica after the regime canceled the legal status of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights (CPDH), which he headed. The lawyer left the country during the night of Thursday, April 28, heading to San José, according to the 100% Noticias media.
