Spain will offer nationality to 135 Nicaraguans released from prisonexpelled to Guatemala and denationalized by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, as confirmed by the Chancellor of Spain, José Manuel Albares before the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Congress of Deputies by order of President Pedro Sanchez.
During the press conference, Albares announced that the offer of Spain It will also reach the “first degree of precariousness” relatives of former political prisoners who are outside or inside Nicaragua, a measure that had not been adopted in past offers.
“Spain, with our current foreign policy, is and will always be home to our Latin American brothers who defend freedom and democracy,” Albares said during his conference before the Commission.
This massive offer is similar to one adopted by the Spanish government in early 2023 when Sánchez decided to offer nationality to the 222 political prisoners who were also expelled from Nicaragua by the Sandinista regime and later denationalized. Likewise, the Spanish government did so with another group of 94 citizens who were also included in an alleged spurious judicial ruling to strip them of their nationality, on September 15, 2023.
On September 5, the United States government announced the release of 135 political prisoners who were sent by the Sandinista regime to Guatemala. To date, the Ortega government has not published an official list of those exiled in that batch, but both the Guatemalan government and the North American authorities do have the complete record, and Spain will surely use that record to legalize those who opt for nationality. Spanish.
Among the exiles who will be able to opt for Spanish nationality are: the opposition journalist Víctor Yobelni Tikay Ruiz, the official journalist Obed Bejarano, the Sandinista tiktoker Cristóbal Geovanny López Acevedo and 13 members of the religious group of the Puertas de la Montaña church.
Others who have already received Spanish nationality after being expelled from Nicaragua are: Cristiana and Carlos Fernado Chamorro Barrios, the poet Gioconda Belli, the journalists Álvaro Navarro and Anibal Toruño, the politicians Dora María Tellez, Suyen Barahona, Juan Sebastián Chamorro and the environmentalist Amaru Ruiz.
According to what some denationalized persons indicate to the media under anonymity, this past October 2nd was the deadline set by the United Nations Refugee Organization (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the relatives of the Former prisoners will travel to Guatemala and unify their cases to be relocated together in the preferred country.
