The Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Socialist International expressed its rejection, through a statement, of the recent constitutional reforms approved in Nicaragua for him regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. He also accused these reforms of taking away the fundamental rights and freedoms that sustain a democracy.
“The Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Socialist International expresses its most energetic repudiation of the serious situation that Nicaragua is going through, where brutal repression against citizens has intensified, taking away the fundamental rights and freedoms that sustain a democracy,” the statement reads.
For the Socialist International led by the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, the reforms, in addition to violating the basic principles of a democratic country, solidify the power of the presidential couple over the institutions and powers, which leaves Nicaragua under absolute control of the regime.
«The recent constitutional reforms, approved on November 19, 2024, not only violate the essential principles of a democratic and social State of law, but also institutionalize nepotism, eliminate municipal autonomy and subordinate public institutions to the absolute control of the family. presidential,” says the Committee.
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The group, made up of more than 100 socialist parties, also called on the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN) to condemn the approval of these constitutional reforms, which they consider “an attack on democracy.”
Likewise, the organization asked the international community to adopt diplomatic and economic measures to seek an end to repression and restore fundamental rights in Nicaragua.
For Luis Blandón, president of the Democratic Renewal Union party (Let’s unite), a member of the Socialist International, it is important that all international organizations and platforms show solidarity with the Nicaraguan cause, as it reveals the political isolation experienced by the Sandinista dictatorship.
“The Ortega Murillo dictatorship must be exposed to the world and it is good that the Socialist International repudiates the lack of human rights and democracy that is lacking in Nicaragua,” says Blandón.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front was expelled from said organization, which brings together socialist parties from around the world, in January 2019, a few months after the beginning of the violent repression against anti-government protesters by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship.
