Human rights defenders pointed out that the words of the president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), Dante Mossi, have no legal basis, because the countries that are members of the financial entity are committed to respecting human rights.
Faced with the repudiation and criticism of various political groups in Nicaragua that accuse CABEI of “exceeding” its support for the Daniel Ortega regime, Mossi pointed out that the organization he represents is not an “instance” to denounce human rights and urged the opponents to “apply” to the appropriate entities.
“CABEI has a code of ethics and at the same time has an Integrity and Compliance Office that is a dependency of CABEI’s Risk Management, which is in charge of administering and managing the risks of money laundering, financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, integrity, and sanctions in accordance with CABEI’s current guidelines, policies, and tools,” explained opponent and human rights defender Haydée Castillo.
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“This has the purpose of preventing and mitigating the effects that could occur if the organization, its operations and activities are used for money laundering, financing of terrorism and that this materializes in risks of fraud and corruption, so that it is very clear that CABEI has a commitment to zero tolerance for fraud, corruption and other prohibited practices, which are precisely what the international community has pointed out to the Ortega-Murillo regime,” he added.
According to human rights defender Braulio Abarca, a member of the Nicaragua Never Again Collective, that the president of CABEI, Dante Mossi, states that this international entity, “which originated within the SICA (Central American Integration System), has nothing to do with to denounce human rights violations is an affirmation that has no legal basis, since all the democratic countries that make up CABEI have the obligation to respect human rights.”
“Financial organizations such as CABEI have the obligation to respect the clauses for the protection of human rights and the promotion of democracy as established in international conventions or multilateral agreements such as those that appear in the Association Agreement (AdA) between Nicaragua and the Union European Union, CAFTA in Central America that deals with the protection of human rights. H H. and that by violating these agreements they are breaching these treaties,” said Abarca.
“CABEI finances a regime involved in corruption”
Castillo stated that CABEI is financing a regime that “is involved in unprecedented corruption in the case of Venezuelan cooperation, with a policy of state terrorism. We are clear that those who are financing the regime are really, in some way, contributing to money laundering at the international level.”
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“It would even be necessary to analyze what is happening with the financing for the purchase of weapons and the relations that (Daniel Ortega) is maintaining with Russia and Iran,” he said.
He explained that Dante Mossi, president of CABEI, cannot be “indifferent” to human rights violations in any country of its member states. «It cannot be that the economy is on the margin of human rights. The economy, politics, the environment, development, integrity, values, ethics, are things that must necessarily go hand in hand », he argued.
“It is crucial that the international community knows what is happening, that the loans that are oxygenating the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo cease, it is crucial that the international organizations that provide loans stop doing so because everything that is sent to Nicaragua is occupies to repress the population”, added Abarca.
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The human rights defender indicated that a process of direct advocacy should be initiated with the members who are partners of CABEI, the decision makers who are the directors of each country before the financial institution so that the loans for the regime of Nicaragua.
hegemonic autocracy
Abarca lamented that the people of Nicaragua are under a dictatorship and not in an institutionalized democracy where human rights are respected and there is separation of State Powers.
«There is a hegemonic autocracy perpetrating itself in power made up of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, for which they are violating the issue of rights, fundamental freedoms and, therefore, transgress and violate international instruments such as the American Convention and the Tegucigalpa protocol “, he pointed.
“In recent months there has been an increase in the General Budget of the Republic for the Police and Army, which shows that money is being poorly invested in these issues and is not being invested in education, health and community development, protection of early childhood, everything is aimed at avoiding the Nicaraguan people,” he concluded.
