The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through the Judiciary, ordered the stripping of Nicaraguan nationality from 94 people. Among the new “stateless” are journalists, activists, human rights defenders, former regime officials and opponents.
According to a resolution read by Judge Ernesto Rodríguez, magistrate of the Court of Appeals of Managua, the Nicaraguans were declared “traitors of the homeland” and for this reason they lost their citizenship, protected by Law 1145, the law that reformed article 21 of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Nicaragua.
“… the defendants are regarded as traitors to the Homeland, for which reason the accessory penalties of absolute and special disqualification are imposed on them to hold public office, to hold public office on behalf of or at the service of the State of Nicaragua, as well as to hold positions of popular election and the loss of their citizen rights in perpetuity, respectively, “says Resolves I of the resolution.
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The dictatorship also ordered the confiscation of “all real estate and companies that the defendants have registered in their favor, either personally or legal persons or companies in which they participate as partners, to answer for the crimes committed.”
The new “stateless”
Among those newly affected by the repressive laws of the dictatorship is Dr. Vilma Núñez, president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh); Arturo McFields, the former Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS; Yader Morazán, former official of the Judiciary; Rafael Solís, former magistrate and best man at Ortega y Murillo’s wedding.
The religious were not spared from this new outburst of Nicaraguan nationality, on the official list is Monsignor Silvio Báez, auxiliary bishop of Managua; Father Uriel Vallejos, an exiled priest from the Diocese of Matagalpa and accused in the same case as Monsignor Álvarez; Erick Díaz, priest exiled in the United States; Harving Padilla, former priest of the San Juan Bautista Church, in Masaya; and the priest Edwin Román, ex-parish priest of the San Miguel Arcángel Church, in the same city, now in exile in Miami.
Also included on the list are journalists Wilfredo Miranda Aburto, co-founder of Divergentes; David Quintana, director of the Ecological Bulletin; Carlos Fernando Chamorro, director of Confidencial; Luis Galeano, director of Café con Voz; Jennifer Ortiz, director of Nicaragua Investiga; Patricia Orozco, director of Agenda Propia; Lucía Pineda, director of 100% News; Aníbal Toruño, from the canceled Radio Darío and Álvaro Navarro, director of Article 66.
The award-winning writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli, currently in exile in Spain, were also expatriates. They also took away the nationality of the journalist Camilo de Castro Belli, son of the poet Belli.
Also the ex-deputies expelled from the National Assembly of the Sandinista Renovation Movement: Edipcia Dubón and Silvia Nadine Gutiérrez Pinto. Both exiled in Costa Rica. Gutiérrez is the daughter of the political prisoner released and exiled Evelyn Pinto.
Human rights defenders Gonzalo Carrión from the Nicaragua Nunca Más Colectivo exiled in Costa Rica; Danny Ramírez-Ayérdiz, executive secretary of Calidh; Pablo Cuevas, former member of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights (CPDH), exiled in the United States.
The list is continued by opponents in exile Haydée Castillo, Mónica Baltodano Marcenaro, Mónica López Baltodano, Julio López Campos, Francisca Ramírez, Amaru Ruíz, Alexa Zamora and Moisés Hassan.
These 94 people join the 222 political prisoners who were exiled to the United States and the Bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, who have lost their Nicaraguan nationality by order of the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship.
