On the eve of the end of the year holidays, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked the Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega that the political prisoner Dora María Téllez receive medical attention in his country. The Sandinista leader ignored the communication from his Mexican counterpart, AMLO revealed this Wednesday, February 22, at a press conference.
“Recently we have received various expressions of discomfort over the situation of Nicaraguan citizens, members of various political organizations, who are currently in prison in their country,” reads the letter that the President of Mexico read and presented this day. .
“In particular, we are concerned about the case of Mrs. Dora María Téllez, whose state of health, according to what we are informed, is delicate. Consequently, we want to reiterate to you the willingness and willingness of our people to receive Mrs. Téllez in Mexico, avoiding leading purposes, with the sole purpose of receiving the necessary medical attention and being able to remain in our country, if requested and It is his will,” the letter continues.
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According to the official communication of the Mexican government, the petition responded to “humanitarian reasons.” In the letter, AMLO reiterated that he was not moved by “another interest” other than “brotherhood with the people of Nicaragua.”
«… our common history and Mexico’s commitment to always open the doors to those who consider it essential for their security and protection, beyond ideologies or political positions. I also express to you that at no time would we lend ourselves to being used in a campaign against Nicaragua and its government, encouraged by interests alien to those of our peoples,” AMLO wrote on December 19, 2022 while Téllez was detained in Nicaraguan prisons. .
Dora María Téllez is part of the 222 political prisoners who were exiled by the Ortega Murillo regime on February 9. Those hostages of conscience were also stripped of their Nicaraguan nationality and the confiscation of their assets through the reform of the Political Constitution of the Republic.
The released politician told Article 66 that she appreciates the statements of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in two senses: for having made a request for her to be released and transferred to Mexico due to health problems and also for his offer to grant asylum to Nicaraguans that they are being persecuted.
“I am very satisfied with these statements by President López Obrador and that he distances himself from the acts of Daniel Ortega when he says that” nationality cannot be taken away by decree, “it is a completely essential matter,” Téllez said by telephone from exile in USA.
AMLO announced this same day that Mexico offers asylum and nationality to Nicaraguans who were exiled by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The decision of the North American country joins the proposals by Spain, Argentina and Chile to grant them the citizenship of those countries.
