Human rights defender Danny Ramírez-Ayérdiz, executive secretary of the Inter-American Legal Assistance Center for Human Rights (Calidh), considers that the sanctions of the United States Department of the Treasury are “insufficient” and encouraged multilateral organizations to “raise the stop” against the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
«(The sanctions) are not enough, they should be elevated to another level, as the Group of Experts on Human Rights for Nicaragua (from the UN) said. The sanctions should be located in the area that, when international or multilateral organizations lend to Nicaragua, they should establish human rights clauses, which is nothing scandalous in case the Government wants to say that it affects its sovereignty, “he said.
«When multilateral organizations act in this area (human rights) they have the obligation to ensure that to whom they are lending the money they are going to use what they say. Any sanction is useful, but it is necessary to raise the stop of the sanctions», he added.
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He stated that now “it is up to multilateral bodies such as the IMF, World Bank, CABEI and the IDB to establish human rights clauses, it is not possible to lend to a government that has the country on its knees and in State terrorism.”
For his part, Juan Diego Barberena, a member of the Political Council of the Blue and White National Unity (Unab) indicated after the sanctions that “no one is unpunished. No act is without its consequences and this (crime of) prevarication that these magistrates and the judge have made have its consequences and are pariahs at the international level.
“It is also a message for the Ortega Murillo administration. The clique in power believes that everything they do has no reaction and they can live with impunity, but they are not right,” he refers.
The sanctions against three Nicaraguan judicial officials, says Barberena, which “is a message of hope on this symbolic day (April 19, the fifth anniversary of the Civic Rebellion) of the popular uprising and which marks the milestone of the demand for justice without impunity in Nicaragua.
