The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, denounced that the Nicaraguan regime, led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, has extended “its abuses beyond its own borders.” This statement was made during the presentation of the “National Report on Human Rights Practices 2023” of the North American Department of State.
One of the chapters of the official document of the Joe Biden Government explains that Nicaraguan exiles in Costa Rica and other countries have denounced “harassment and political repression” by sympathizers of the regime who have come to other countries to carry out these actions.
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The existence of intelligence officials within the Nicaraguan embassy in Costa Rica, the destination country for thousands of compatriots who have fled state repression since 2018, is also reported.
“A law on cybercrimes allowed the Government to use international extradition to pursue citizens living abroad who committed so-called cybercrimes,” highlights the North American State report.
The repressive escalation of the dictatorship includes threats, harassment, surveillance and coercion against the relatives of the opponents who are in exile. According to the document, some relatives of politicians or activists were “unjustly detained and convicted as part of the Government’s attempts to force exiled opposition members to return to the country and face arrest.”
«The government systematically denied these relatives access to public documents, such as birth certificates of children under joint guardianship or passports. In several cases, the authorities required that a parent who had been forcibly exiled by the Government be present to request public documents for the minors,” he says.
He tried to use Interpol
The United States says there were “credible” reports that Ortega attempted to “improperly” use Interpol red notices for political purposes, as retaliation against people he considered opponents, including exiled clergy.
“There were credible reports that authorities attempted to control mobility to retaliate against citizens abroad by denying them consular services. “Immigration authorities within the country and through consular offices abroad denied access to passports to alleged political opponents and their relatives, preventing them from traveling to a third country,” he mentions.
“In addition, the government, primarily using email notifications sent by airlines, denied entry to more than 40 citizens who were attempting to return to the country,” it added.
The response of the dictatorship
The vice-dictator and government spokesperson, Rosario Murillo, in her daily speech, through the media of official propaganda, unleashed insults against the US government, which she called “genocidal” and “savage violators of all human rights” and highlighted that the Americans “are nobody” to point out the aforementioned violations of the rights of the Nicaraguan people.
US monitoring points to the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship from arbitrary arrests, through the closure of thousands of NGOs, to reports of summary executions, torture, cruel and inhuman treatment against political prisoners, abuses against indigenous peoples, the promotion of statelessness, which is a crime against humanity, government corruption, even religious persecution.
The accusations filled the dictators with anger to the point that Murillo dedicated a statement to inform the international community that the report on human rights is “offensive and harmful” and, according to Murillo, “overrides and attacks our sovereignty.”
