The International Parliamentary Commission of Solidarity for the Freedom of Political Prisoners left San José, Costa Rica, this morning in an International Caravan to the Peñas Blancas border with Nicaragua with the aim of trying to enter the country and thus verify the conditions of the more than 190 prisoners of conscience and demand their immediate freedom.
The delegation sent various communications to the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo to allow their entry into Nicaragua, but the dictatorship did not issue any response to the request of the Latin American parliamentarians. They intend to meet with the relatives of the inmates and “visit some of the detainees.”
The delegation is made up of deputies from the Left Front and Workers Unity (FITU), from Argentina, and representatives of different organizations from Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama and Costa Rica.
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“We are in the middle of the journey, on the way to an intermediate station prior to the Peñas Blancas border post, already in Nicaraguan territory. We are going to make a stop at La Cruz where the Caravan is going to carry out an act with the representations of the Nicaraguan organizations in exile, but also with very important referents of the Peasant Movement that are emblematic of the struggle in defense of the territory and against the dictatorship. in Nicaragua,” said Mariano Rosa, coordinator of the International Commission.
The parliamentarian explained that the embassies of Costa Rica and Argentina, in San José and Managua; are aware of the Commission’s determination to enter Nicaragua. The Caravan is accompanied by a battery of journalists and independent media in exile who will reach the Peñas Blancas border.
“The Ortega Murillo regime knows that this Commission has the decision to enter the country, to visit the prisons, to verify the situation, the state of health and the confinement of political prisoners. We are going to wait for that decision at the border because we even came for that purpose », he affirmed.
