Various opposition groups have spoken out about the statements made by the Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Arturo McFields, who denounced the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega before the continental entity.
The Blue and White National Unit (Unab) described this act as “an unprecedented event, it is a complaint exposed, in the forum of its competence, by a high official in the diplomatic ranks of the country that exposes the arbitrariness and violations of human rights of the dictatorship that illegitimately holds power in Nicaragua.
“With this action, the people of Nicaragua should have an even clearer conviction that the dictatorship will fall, that it is not viable for the great majority, that it no longer governs and that it holds power only by force, which is not in the profitable time, and today it was demonstrated that coercion, coercion and blackmail have their limits,” wrote the opposition group in a press release distributed to the media this afternoon.
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In addition, they expressed solidarity with the officials of the dictatorship who are victims of the regime who “are subjected daily to be instruments of excessive acts of corruption that benefit the leadership and elite of the Ortega-Murillo tyranny.”
They recognize “courage, firmness and determination” of McFields
The Nicaraguan Exiles Unit (UEN) expressed its “surprise and gratitude” to the ambassador of the dictatorship who “bravely” denounced the regime before the OAS. “UEN recognizes the courage, firmness and determination that some public officials have had to denounce the serious systematic violations of human rights since April 2018,” he highlights.
“We see in them the great pressure, threats, intimidation against the vast majority of the country’s public workforce. The diplomat’s words reflect the desperation of the people who cry out for justice and freedom », he adds.
They demanded that the international community take the word of the Nicaraguan ambassador and contribute in a more “belligerent way to the democratization of Nicaragua” because it is urgent that diplomatic actions contribute to that end.
The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, highlighted McFields’ denunciation of the Ortega Murillo regime “for its history of oppression and human rights.” “We congratulate the ambassador for McFields’ courage in giving a voice to the millions of fellow Nicaraguans waiting for a return to democracy,” he wrote on Twitter.
McFields complaint “reaffirms agency complaints”
The independent Urnas Abiertas observatory stated, in a statement, that the words of Ortega’s ambassador reaffirm the denunciation of national international organizations that in “Nicaragua there is no rule of law and that an authoritarian system persists: freedom of expression is repressed, freedom of the press, the right to mobilize, civil society organizations, political parties are repressed and there is no separation of powers».
“Public officials have also been among the main victims because they have been forced to cast their vote in favor of Ortega, they have made work and financial contributions to the party, they have campaigned during working hours, they have been arbitrarily fired due to retaliation, They even had to send a photo of their ballot marked with their name, “says the document.
The observatory highlighted the importance of approving a special international accountability mechanism to investigate and document the serious human rights violations that have been committed in the country.
