The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Panama reported that his country offers nationality to citizens who have been declared stateless by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. In total there are 317 members of the opposition who were stripped of their Nicaraguan nationality by the courts at the service of the presidential couple.
“Panama, as a country party to the Conventions against Statelessness, will consider all requests made to our country within the framework of these legal instruments,” he detailed in a statement. release the administration of Laurentino Cortizo.
He also stressed that “humanity’s commitment to the obligation to overcome statelessness calls on all of us.”
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In addition, the Panamanian government established its position on the situation in Nicaragua. “Faithful to the values contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights and the Conventions on Statelessness, Panama expresses its concern over the recent actions of the Government of Nicaragua in the area of human rights and with it, the complex situation of its citizens,” he said.
“Panama trusts that the decisions adopted by the Government of Nicaragua in matters inherent to citizenship, expatriation and nationality, which have affected the lives of more than 300 Nicaraguans, can be resolved in a sustainable manner with the annulment of said measures, in favor of safeguarding the rights of this group of people,” he said.
Panama’s initiative joins those already announced by the governments of Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Ecuador that have offered nationality to Nicaraguans declared stateless.
Between February 9 and 15, the Ortega y Murillo regime declared 317 people “traitors to the homeland,” of these 222 were exiled to the United States and 94 were announced in the middle of the month. Along with the outburst of Nicaraguan citizenship, he also ordered the confiscation of their assets.
Ortega reformed article 21 of the Political Constitution of the Republic to remove Nicaraguan nationality from dissident voices to his regime. Faced with this legal aberration, the administration of Laurentino Cortizo made a “call to the Nicaraguan government to guarantee the inescapable right of people to maintain a nationality, as a right enshrined in the legislation of all our countries.”
