Brazil offered this Tuesday to “host” the more than 300 opponents and critics of the Government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortegastripped of their nationality in recent weeks, at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“The Government of Brazil received with extreme concern the decision of the Nicaraguan authorities to deprive more than 300 Nicaraguan citizens of their nationality,” said the Brazilian representative, diplomat Tovar Nunes, in his speech, released by the Presidency.
For this reason, in line with its “humanitarian commitment to the protection of stateless persons”, Brazil made itself available to “receive those affected by this decision”, protected “by the special statute provided for in the Brazilian migration law”.
This law allows stateless persons to reside in Brazil and, after regularizing their immigration status, also empowers them to apply for Brazilian nationality.
Brazil joins like this to the Governments of Spain, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Ecuador who have offered their nationality to the hundreds of “denationalized” by the regime of Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.
The Brazilian representative at the UN denounced the “serious violations of human rights” in Nicaragua, which is the strongest statement in this regard since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva assumed the Presidency on January 1.
Summary executions and torture
“The Brazilian government follows the events in Nicaragua with great attention and is concerned with the reports of serious violations of human rights and restrictions on the democratic space in that country, in particular with the summary executions, arbitrary detentions and torture of dissidents. politicians,” Nunes said.
He also offered to explore ways to overcome the crisis by talking with the parties “constructively.”
The Nicaraguan authorities have decided to withdraw the nationality “for treason” to 317 citizens critical of the administration of President Ortega, most of whom are in exile.
This gesture by the Government comes after the criticism received from the opposition aligned with former President Jair Bolsonaro in relation to Lula’s lack of forcefulness when condemning human rights violations in Nicaragua.
“Lula’s herd is silent against the man dictator Ortega and they do not condemn him at the UN for the humanitarian crimes he has committed and continues to commit,” Senator Ciro Nogueira, who was Minister of the Presidency in the Bolsonaro government, expressed on his social networks. (2019-2022).
A matilha de Lula said against the woman Michelle Bolsonaro for something she never did. But the same are calmed against the assassinator Ortega and do not condemn the UN for the humanitarian crimes that he commits and faces. Misogyny, cowardice and shame. Or Brazil is selling! pic.twitter.com/MMG3scnzRw
— Ciro Nogueira (@ciro_nogueira) March 5, 2023
Flávio Bolonaro, also a senator, son of the far-right leader, joined the criticism of Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT) for its position on the serious situation in the Central American country.
“The ‘defense of democracy’ that the PT repeats in the four corners is just discourse, the practice is very different…”, he denounced on his social networks.
