The writer Sergio Ramírez made public a declaration signed by 483 poets and authors at the international level who stand in solidarity with the Nicaraguans who were stripped of their nationality by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against 317 citizens.
“We, the undersigned, express our concern over the recent actions of the Nicaraguan government and stand in solidarity with the Nicaraguan citizens who have been stripped of their nationality. These facts violate the fundamental human right to have a nationality and the prohibition to arbitrarily deprive any human being of it,” the statement said.
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They remind the regime that this action constitutes a violation of the rights “consigned in article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in article 20 of the American Convention on Human Rights.”
Among the signatories are the authors, poets, novelists and journalists, Abraham Gragera, Carlos Zanón, Angelica Medinilla, Aurelio Major, Carmen Posadas, Eva Valero Juan and Francisco Javier Pérez. All have expressed their solidarity with the stripping of the nationality of the Sergio Ramírez Cervantes Prize for Literature and the renowned poet Gioconda Belli.
According to a resolution of the Managua Court of Appeals (TAM), there are currently 317 Nicaraguans who have been declared “traitors of the homeland” and “fugitives from justice.” In addition, the confiscation of all his assets in the country was ordered.
Among those newly affected by the repressive laws of the dictatorship are 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.
Likewise, the journalist Camilo de Castro Belli, son of the poet Belli, was expatriated. In addition, the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Monsignor Silvio Báez and a dozen journalists.
