The IDEA group issued a statement in which it established its position regarding the latest actions carried out in Nicaragua against those who oppose the government of Daniel Ortega. In addition to criticizing most of the Latin American countries for not speaking out, he emphasizes the Mexican president López Obrador for criticizing Peru and not raising his voice for what is happening in the Central American nation
About twenty former Heads of State and Government that make up the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) issued a statement on February 20 in which they reproached that in Latin America, with the exception of Chili and Ecuador, has not condemned the measures taken by the Daniel Ortega administration in Nicaragua against political prisoners.
IDEA described as a “dictatorial measure” the action of banishing 222 people adverse to the Nicaraguan Executive and, in addition, stripping them of their nationality. Similarly, it repudiates the confiscation of their assets and the violation of the rights of another 94 personalities and intellectuals Nicaraguans.
He also reproached Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, for being sentenced to 26 years in prison for no apparent reason.
The IDEA group is also concerned that the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accuses the Government of Peru headed by Dina Boluarte as “spurious” for not giving him the pro tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance, while listening deaf “before the exercise and violations of human rights perpetrated by the Ortega-Murillo couple, in Nicaragua.”
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@Almagro_OEA2015 @GobiernoMX @GobCDMX @CancilleriaPeru @SRE_mx 22 FORMER HEADS OF STATE OF THE IDEA GROUP CONCERNED ABOUT THE ATTITUDE OF THE REGION TOWARDS NICARAGUA AND AMLO’S SILENCE WHILE INTERVENING IN PERU pic.twitter.com/4CSpVmtCUD
— Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas. (@IDEA_Group) February 20, 2023
Meanwhile, President Daniel Ortega decorated on Tuesday, February 21, with the Augusto Sandino order in its highest degree the Attorney General of the Republic of Nicaragua, Ana Julia Guido Ochoa, the electoral magistrates Brenda Rocha, Lumberto Campbell and Ana María Baltodano, and former legislator and diplomat Orlando Tardencilla.
According to Ortega’s decree, officials “loyal and faithful” to Nicaragua receive the distinction for maintaining those values in the Central American nation, he noted. Swiss Info.
On February 9, Daniel Ortega ordered the expulsion to the United States of a group of 222 political prisoners for “traitors to the homeland”, including seven people who tried to challenge Ortega for the presidency of the country last year and five priests. All of them were stripped of their nationality through an express constitutional reform.
Six days later, the Nicaraguan authorities also stripped other 94 Nicaraguans, among them religious, diplomats, former state officials, human rights defenders, Sandinista dissidents, opponents, journalists, academics, students, businessmen and merchants.
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