The tour that the Chilean president gabriel boric carried out by Mexico registered a controversial incident related to the crisis in Nicaragua, when a group of senators took advantage of the appearance of the South American president in the chamber to protest the political and diplomatic support of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The Mexican opposition political faction called Grupo Plural was responsible for the protest, when some of its members went to the front of the legislative rostrum and displayed a banner that read: “Boric does not protect murderers in Nicaragua like AMLO”.
According to the newspaper reports, the legislators who unfolded the blanket are Emilio Alvarez Icaza Y Gustavo Madero. Senator Álvarez Icaza on Twitter expanded his reflections on AMLO’s political support for the Ortega regime.
In Nicaragua @DanielOrtegasa has not hesitated to murder and rape #HRD with the pleasure of @lopezobrador_ and his @GobiernoMX.
Foreign policy is a shame. We must break relations with Nicaragua.
Mexico was an example of solidarity. @gpplural @ahora_mx @SRE_mx pic.twitter.com/P47GJFlDll
— Emilio Álvarez Icaza Longoria (@EmilioAlvarezI) November 24, 2022
The senator added in the same social network that “andhe electoral fraud that López Obrador talks about so much was committed by Daniel Ortega in the recent municipal elections by ‘winning’ the 153 mayors’ offices with opponents imprisoned or forced to flee. Five times president, Ortega is supported by López Obrador”.
President Boric has been a strong critic of the international community’s indifference to the crisis of human rights violations in Nicaragua. The BioBio Chile outlet reported that in his speech to the Senate Mexican, Boric insisted on the urgency of addressing the situation in the country.
“We cannot look to the side in the face of the crisis that Haiti is experiencing, we cannot look to the side in the face of the political prisoners in Nicaragua,” added Boric.
In an interview with the influential American magazine TIME, boric voiced that “I prefer to be able to tell Daniel Ortega that I disagree with him and I want him to release the political prisoners —(like) Dora María Téllez— say it to his face and confront each other.”
The Chilean president also questioned on Twitter the results of the municipal electoral farce on November 6, 2022 with which the Sandinista Front awarded itself the 153 mayors’ offices in Nicaragua. “An electoral process that is carried out without freedom, reliable electoral justice and imprisoned or proscribed opponents, it is not democracy in any part of the world”, he wrote in his account on the social network.
On Sunday municipal elections were held in Nicaragua. Of 153 “disputed” mayoralties, Ortega won 153. An electoral process that is carried out without freedom, reliable electoral justice, and imprisoned or outlawed opponents is not democracy anywhere in the world.
—Gabriel Boric Font (@gabrielboric) November 9, 2022
The Mexican website Aristegui Noticias reported that Boric arrived in Mexico this week to originally participate in the Pacific Alliance meetingbut because the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, was not authorized by the Congress of his country, the event had to be postponed.
AMLO’s foreign policy has been complacent with the abuses of the Daniel Ortega regime. He was even the standard bearer of the boycott the Summit of the Americas by the decision of US President Joe Biden not to invite the dictatorships of Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela to the regional meeting. “How is it that we call a Summit, but we don’t invite everyone?”questioned the Mexican president.
In addition, he maintains a position of supposed “neutrality and non-interference” in the Nicaraguan crisis during the sessions of the Organization of American States (OAS).
López Obrador expressed this Friday that “respect” Boric’s statements in the Mexican Senate. “We highly respect President Boric, as we respect all presidents, especially in his case, who comes from a leftist movement, and of course he is completely free to demonstrate, to express himself,” said the Mexican president.
