The Nicaraguan deputies will declare May 30 as a national holiday, which is celebrated on Mother’s Day in the Central American country, this through a reform to the Labor Code proposed by the head of the National Assembly, Gustavo Porras.
batons argued the proposal assuring that “by tradition” on May 30 of each year Mother’s Day is celebrated and by decree it is established that during the month tributes to these are made at a national level.
“Mothers are worthy and fighters, so it is necessary for the State to take another step to highlight the contribution that mothers make to the family, the community and society every day,” said the legislator.
The new holiday, which is expected to be discussed in the National Assembly this week, has generated countless criticisms from opposition groups and relatives of victims of the protests against President Daniel Ortega, due to the “massacre” that occurred in the context of the political crisis in 2018.
On May 30, 2018, about 15 Nicaraguans died and almost 200 were injured in a demonstration that was called “the mother of all marches”, which took place simultaneously in the country and was allegedly attacked by people related to the Ortega government.
The Mothers of April Association, made up of the parents of the victims of the protests, issued a declaration in which they underlined that May 30 is a “day of national mourning for the murders of our children and relatives that constitute crimes against humanity even today.” in impunity”.
The declaration also indicates that the mothers of the victims will continue to demand justice “and clarification of the truth” so that “those responsible are brought before the courts of justice.”
Some of those who make up the organization are in Costa Rica and have denounced harassment by the government in Nicaragua. “I don’t know what they are looking for, because they had the boy killed and they still come to besiege the house,” said to a local media Ivania Dolmus, mother of the young Sandor Dolmus, who was killed in the protests in 2018.
During the protests against President Daniel Ortega more than 300 people died in Nicaraguaaccording to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The Ortega government has been accused of perpetrating the crimes, however, it has denied them and has said that there was an alleged coup plan against it.
“The celebration that they intend to establish is hypocrisy. It is double standards because they talk about giving space to mothers but many crimes continue to go unpunished,” opposition leader Gabriel Putoy, from the Group of Political Released Prisoners of Nicaragua (GREX), told VOA.
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