The Puebla Group condemned this February 27 the exile and declaration of statelessness carried out by the dictatorial regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against 317 Nicaraguan opponents.
“The Puebla Group expresses its deep concern about the democratic situation and the state of freedoms and human rights in Nicaragua. (…) We condemn practices as drastic as exile and stripping of nationality, practices that recall the worst practices of the right-wing dictatorships of the 70s and 80s on our continent,” says the Puebla Group.
The declaration of the leftist leaders of the region also states that there is no justification for a government that claims to be left-wing to take measures that limit the exercise of the democratic freedoms of its citizens.
“But none of the above, can justify that a government of supposed progressive inspiration, take measures that curtail democracy and freedoms, especially those that refer to the free exercise of the opposition,” indicates the statement, whose signature is headed by the former president of the Spanish government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
They call for the cessation of undemocratic practices
The statement of the Puebla Group also asks all the political and social actors in Nicaragua to sit down and talk and asks the Managua regime to avoid “practices that curtail freedoms.”
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“Nicaragua is a people with a fierce history, which deserves to live in peace, for this reason, we call on the Government of Nicaragua, the political forces of the government and the opposition, to resume the dialogue that we proposed a few months ago. It is necessary to put an end to the practices that restrict freedoms and human rights and respect the opposition in the exercise of their fundamental rights in full freedom, without restrictions on their mobility and as citizens of Nicaragua”, emphasizes the Puebla Group.
The declaration is signed, on behalf of the entire Puebla Group, by various leaders of the regional left, such as the former president of the Spanish government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Colombian senator María José Pizarro, the Secretary of State for Climate Change from the government of Argentina, Cecilia Nicolini, the former foreign minister of the first government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Célso Amorím and the Ecuadorian diplomat Guillaume Long, former minister of foreign affairs in the government of Rafael Correa; among others.
