The Chilean President, gabriel boricexpressed solidarity with Sergio Ramírez, Gioconda Belli, Sofía Montenegro, Carlos Fernando Chamorro and other citizens whom the Nicaraguan regime declared stateless and ordered the confiscation of their assets.
“A fraternal hug to Gioconda, Sergio, Sofía, Carlos and all those whom (Daniel) Ortega has tried to strip them of their Nicaraguan nationality,” the left-wing president said on Twitter.
In his publication, made this Saturday, February 18, he stressed that Ortega, whom he calls a dictator, “does not know that the country is carried in his heart and in his actions, and is not deprived by decree”; while he reminded Nicaraguans that “you are not alone!”
Boric accompanied his words with a retweet to Gioconda Belli, in which the writer captured some verses from her poem “Nicaragua” after being stripped of her nationality.
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo began on Friday the arbitrary and illegal seizure of the properties of Nicaraguan critics of the regime, whose nationality was taken away in the recent week.
The journalist Sofía Montenegro and the opposition members Azahálea Solís and Irlanda Jerez were the first to confirm to different national media the seizure of their homes.
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At the moment, Chile and Colombia have been the Latin American countries to reject the recent onslaught of the Nicaraguan regime. In an Opinion article, the chancellor of Chile, Antonia Urrejola; He maintained that the return of democracy and the rule of law in the Central American country is a pending issue.
«The persistence of a dialogue practice and without exclusions is key to obtaining concrete results in the framework of international relations. This is especially important in contexts where there seems to be no light at the end of the road, as hopeful outcomes are opening up, such as those of the people released last Thursday”, he highlighted.
317 citizens have been charged by the Nicaraguan Public Prosecutor for the crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity in real competition with the crime of spreading false news to the detriment of the State of Nicaragua and society. With this indication, the Ortega justice system declared them alleged “traitors to the country” and appropriated their assets without even a trial.
