On the morning of this Tuesday, February 21, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) avoided ruling on the exile and stripping of Nicaraguan nationality from 222 opponents, who on February 9 were released from “the clutches” of the regime by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
“Let’s have breakfast now! Tomorrow we will talk, we will answer about this issue,” said the head of State of Mexico, when asked by a journalist about his position on the situation in Nicaragua and thus ending with the morning conference from the National Palace.
“Do you condemn the violation of the human rights of the 222 Nicaraguans and would you offer them Mexican nationality?” was the question asked by Carlos Pozos, a reporter for Lord Molécula, to López Obrador.
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The AMLO government has been close to the Ortega regime and there have been few occasions on which it has spoken out about the violation of human rights in Nicaragua. In addition, when the Mexican president is consulted about the situation in Nicaragua, he usually upholds his “ideal” of “non-interference” in the internal affairs of countries.
For their part, a group of 22 former presidents of Ibero-America, members of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA), lamented AMLO’s “silence” in the face of the violations of the human rights of Nicaraguans carried out by the Ortega dictatorship and Murillo.
“The members of the IDEA Group are concerned that the president of the United Mexican States, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, leaving aside his repeated principle of non-intervention, accuses the democratic and provisional government of Peru of being spurious in order to avoid transferring the Pro Tempore presidency to him. of the Pacific Alliance, while remaining silent in the face of the exercise and violations of human rights perpetrated by the Ortega-Murillo couple, in Nicaragua,” reads the official IDEA statement.
The latest actions of the Nicaraguan dictatorship have been the banishment of 222 political prisoners, including five disgraced Sandinistas, and then it withdrew the nationality of 94 Nicaraguans and the confiscation of their property. Most of the new stateless persons are in exile. .
Nicaragua has been experiencing a social, political, economic and human rights crisis since April 2018 when it began a civic revolt that the regime ordered to suppress. This decision left 355 people dead, according to updated data from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), all crimes remain unpunished.
