The Chilean Foreign Ministry reported that his country offers nationality to Nicaraguans who have been stripped of Nicaraguan citizenship by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. In total there are 317 opponents of the Central American country who are stateless by order of the Managua dictatorship.
This gesture of solidarity with those released from political prisons and those in exile whose nationality was stripped was instructed by the President of Chile, the leftist Gabriel Boric, one of the most critical voices in the region against the authoritarian practices of the Ortega Murillo dictatorship.
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“The Government of Chile will arbitrate the necessary legal means to offer them due international protection, which allows them to reside in the country and obtain Chilean nationality according to the constitutional and legal norms that regulate it”, reads the official statement of the Foreign Ministry of Chile, directed by Antonia Urrejola, a renowned defender of human rights.
The Government of Chile put this alternative as of today for those who have been “unfairly expatriated from Nicaragua and voluntarily decide to take it.” The initiative of the South American country joins those already announced by the Kingdom of Spain and Argentina.
“The history of our country has taught us that the defense of democracy and human rights, and international solidarity among peoples, transcend political conjunctures and are part of essential civilizing standards for life in society,” says the Ministry of Foreign of Chile.
For his part, the Argentine Foreign Minister, santiago cafierosaid in an interview with the journalist Gabriela Cerruti that the administration of Alberto Fernández is willing to support granting nationality to Nicaraguans deprived of it.
“Of course there is the possibility of giving Argentine citizenship to Sergio Ramírez and to all those who are suffering from what is happening in Nicaragua. If he asks for it, we give it to him,” said the politician.
Between February 9 and 15, the Nicaraguan regime declared 317 people “traitors to the homeland,” of these 222 were exiled to the United States and 94 were announced in the middle of the month. Along with the outburst of Nicaraguan citizenship, he also ordered the confiscation of his assets.
Ortega reformed article 21 of the Political Constitution of the Republic to remove Nicaraguan nationality from dissident voices to his regime. Lawyers and local and international human rights organizations have affirmed that what the Ortega judges did was in violation of international law.
Various countries of the international community have asked Ortega to reverse his decision and restore the rights of the people affected by the loss of Nicaraguan nationality, but the regime turns a deaf ear to these calls.
