Nicaraguan opposition organizations issued a statement denouncing the “aggravation of the repression to destroy civil society and silence its voice.” In addition, they criticized the persecution and harassment against the Catholic Church. The groups made the call to carry out a series of protest actions in “demand for justice”.
With the declaration, the opponents express that they will commemorate this May 30 “demanding justice and the departure of this regime (of Daniel Ortega). Four years after the massacre, on that date 17 young people were murdered in different cities of the country, crimes that remain unpunished, and a repressive escalation has been undertaken with the intention of silencing and subjugating the population through repression and permanent terror, ” the document refers.
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“Nicaragua currently lives in a de facto state of siege. More than 170 innocent brothers and sisters continue to be kidnapped in the dungeons of the regime and their lives are in danger”, denounce the more than 50 organizations that signed the statement.
Likewise, they “repudiate and denounce” the attack against the Catholic Church, evaluating the situation as evidence of “total disrespect for freedom of religious belief, advancing in the annihilation of any thought and opposition to its dictatorship.” At the same time they call on Nicaraguans inside and outside the country to join the Day of Fasting and Prayer started a week ago by Monsignor Rolando Álvarez.
Among the actions that contribute to demanding justice and an end to repression, they propose; «contribute to suspend the economic income that the dictatorship uses for repression, join the progressive stoppage of fuel consumption every Wednesday of each week, decisively starting this June 1, 2022, consume only essential products and weaken the businesses of the regime”.
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In addition, they ask citizens to join the “I turn off a candle” event, which consists of drastically reducing the consumption of electrical energy in each of “our houses, offices, businesses and factories for being one of the businesses of the dictatorship.”
As for the Nicaraguans who are in exile, they request that they continue to strengthen their presence and solidarity, pressuring the
international organizations that finance the regime, and demand that the international community create an effective mechanism to demand the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.
