In just one week, Nicaragua has disconnected three important international organizations in what analysts have cataloged as a “new attack of the Daniel Ortega regime” against critical voices.
At the end of February, Nicaragua announced its Departure from the United Nations Human Rights Councilafter this agency revealed an investigation of a possible repressive network against opponents of President Ortega that included army figures.
In February, Ortega also announced his departure from the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IIM).
Juanita Goebertus, director of the Division of the Americas of Human Rights Watch, a non -governmental human rights organization that works in more than 90 countries, considers that Nicaragua’s departure from international forums “deepens an isolation that began in 2018 with the expulsion of international organizations.”
In 2018 one of the worst emerged Nicaragua’s socio -political crisis of the last 30 years after the Civil War of the Central American country with protests of opponents who requested the resignation of Ortega, who returned to power in 2007. The protests left more than 300 dead, according to Oenegés and human rights groups.
Within the framework of the political crisis, the Sandinista government expelled the special monitoring mechanism for Nicaragua (Meseni), established by the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), in addition to an interdisciplinary group of independent experts (GIEI) which investigate the deaths denounced in the framework of the demonstrations.
Goebertus says that these new decisions of the Sandinista government “continue to plug the country into absolute secrecy, through which the regime seeks to operate without restrictions or consequences.”
OAS output
In 2021, Ortega also ordered the Nicaragua departure from the Organization of American States (OAS) to which he classified to be an imperialist entity and with interests in Washington.
The OAS departure in 2021 was preceded by the decision of the General Assembly to ignore the results of the presidential elections of that year that awarded a New five -year mandate to Ortega.
Benjamin Gedean, director of the Latin American program of the Wilson Center, a study center based in Washington, told La Voice of America That the actions of the administration of President Ortega “are not surprising since” Nicaragua has not met the minimum requirements of these organizations. “
Gedean says that “the Ortega regime deserves diplomatic isolation, without a doubt,” notwithstanding that it is important that international institutions are present to press against human rights violations, or at least be witnessing them.
“The conditions in Nicaragua have worsened a lot, and the representatives of any non -governmental institution run the risk of intimidation, harassment and even arrest,” he snapped.
In that approach, Goebertus coincided. “Countries committed to democracy should resort to the International Court of Justice to ensure that serious human rights violations are not unpunished,” he said.
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