Mexican senators Emilio Álvarez Icaza Longoria and Germán Martínez Cázares demanded this Sunday, February 13, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to break diplomatic relations with the Daniel Ortega regime, if it does not guarantee the exercise of freedoms in Nicaragua, one day after the learned of the death of political prisoner Hugo Torres Jiménez.
While López Obrador and the Foreign Ministry of his country have not ruled on the news, the senators sent a letter to Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón in which they express their repudiation of the diplomatic relationship maintained with the Nicaraguan dictatorial government.
Legislators ask the Mexican foreign minister “not to close his eyes” to the circumstances of the death of Torres, who died in prison without hearing a due trial before impartial courts, which they say fills them with indignation.
“Mexico cannot close its eyes to the pain caused by the death of Hugo Torres, nor cowardly look the other way in the face of the dungeons and torture promoted and tolerated by the presidential couple, owner of absolute power in that sister country, the cradle of friends and friends of Mexico like the poet Ernesto Cardenal who died waiting for a gesture of solidarity that never came”, said the legislators.
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The two-page letter, published by Senator Álvarez on his Twitter account, informs the Mexican foreign minister about the serious human rights situation, which has been denounced by other nations in the international community. The senators tell him that abuses against nationals are systematic in Nicaragua.
As Senators of the Republic #GermanMartínezCázares Y @EmilioAlvarezIwe request the @SRE_mx demand the dictatorial government of @DanielOrtegasa guarantee the full exercise of freedoms in #Nicaragua.
On the contrary, @GobiernoMX must break break diplomatic relations. pic.twitter.com/11UPU9LPjf
– Emilio Álvarez Icaza Longoria (@EmilioAlvarezI) February 13, 2022
Ebrard is reminded, by the way, that Mexico usually cites the principle of non-intervention in internal affairs of countries, that in article 89 of the Constitution there is another principle that governs relations with other nations and it is “the respect, protection and promotion from the human rights”.
“We ask you to propose to the President of the Republic the public summons to Ortega Saavedra so that he releases the political prisoners, who saturate the Nicaraguan prisons; cease the persecution and attacks against critics and opponents; full guarantee of the rights of association and demonstration; and unrestricted respect for freedom of expression,” they maintained.
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Currently, according to his relatives, there are at least 170 political prisoners. More of 100 relatives of the victims have called for immediate release and without conditions of the same and have denounced the precarious conditions of confinement, which have caused a considerable drop in weight in most of them.
In contrast to the silence of López Obrador in the case of the death of Torres, until now they have pronounced lamented what happened the Organization of American States, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Chile, Costa Rica, the United States, Peru, among others. All have agreed to demand the release of prisoners of conscience.
