Within the framework of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Antonia Urrejola, reported that her country is leading a proposal with a group of countries that they have called “The political crisis and human rights in Nicaragua. The initiative aims to create a high-level Commission with the mandate to offer the Nicaraguan regime a space to discuss all pertinent issues.
Said initiative was proposed by Chile together with the delegations of Canada, Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica and the United States, all members of the OAS and countries that have committed themselves to the search for a solution to the social, political, humanitarian and human rights in Nicaragua. In addition, several Canada and the United States have applied sanctions to officials of the dictatorship and relatives of the Nicaraguan presidential family.
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“We want to draw attention to the most acute regional crises, starting with Nicaragua and the progressive increase in people arbitrarily deprived of liberty for their ideas, the closure of media outlets, the cancellation of civil organizations, the persecution of members of the Catholic Church, journalists, defenders of human rights”, highlighted the Chilean Foreign Minister.
The head of diplomacy of the South American country, who previously served as rapporteur for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and has documented the situation in Nicaragua, which together with Canada are making various efforts to pressure the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship to open to dialogue with the Working Group of the OAS Permanent Council on the situation of the Central American country.
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo keeps more than 205 political prisoners in captivity in different prisons in the country, according to the Mechanisms for the Recognition of Political Prisoners in his August report. In that confinement they are subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment that has severely affected their health and physical condition, their relatives and human rights organizations repeatedly denounced.
The situation in Nicaragua is one of the central issues that the foreign ministers of 33 countries will address in the most important political event in the Americas. The delegates have prepared the draft resolution “The political and human rights crisis in Nicaragua”, where they express their “deep concern” about the serious situation in the Central American country that is subjugated with an iron fist by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo .
