The Rama and Kriol peoples and the Black Creole Indigenous Community of Bluefields denounced before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDH-Court) to the Nicaraguan regime for the lack of consultations on the Law creating the Grand Interoceanic Canal, and the Law that granted the concession for the construction of the mega-project on indigenous and Afro-descendant lands.
In the public hearing of the Court-IDH, victims of said communities declared that the canal concession is in violation of the demarcation process and the Autonomy Law.
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The Nicaraguan regime did not accredit any representative in this case, as has happened on other occasions. Nor has it responded to the communications from the continental body.
Relatives of the political prisoner and general manager of the newspaper La Prensa, Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro, managed to visit him for the sixteenth time at the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote” in Managua. During the short meeting, his relatives verified that the opponent’s health continues to deteriorate.
A source, on condition of anonymity, detailed The Press that Holman continues to have vision problems, breathing problems, and pain in the lower abdomen due to a hernia; Despite her effects, the judicial authorities continue without providing her with specialized medical attention.
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Likewise, 18 months after being kidnapped and taken to the cells of “El Chipote”, the peasant leader and political prisoner, Medardo Mairenacontinues to present problems with his knee and circulation, without the regime allowing him to be seen by a specialist, denounced his relatives who managed to see him on January 31.
The relatives demanded that the type of food be improved, as well as the opportunity to allow him the entry of a Bible.
The defender and executive secretary of the Center for Inter-American Legal Assistance in Human Rights (Calidh), Danny Ramirez-Ayerdiz, denounced that the State of Nicaragua is carrying out “absolutely null processes” against political prisoners.
The defender maintained that “the accumulation of powers in the executive branch makes the State become only a group of institutions dedicated to controlling the repression of opposition voices.”
He added that criminalization, especially against the Catholic Church, can be translated as a form of state revenge.
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The British magazine The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in its most recent reportposition to Nicaragua as a dictatorial regime and ranks it 143rd worldwide in terms of democracy index.
Venezuela is the country that ranks first in Latin America as the most undemocratic nation. In third place, below Nicaragua, Cuba is located in position 139 and Haiti follows in position 135.
Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollanhianarrived in Managua on Wednesday, February 1, as part of his tour of Mauritania, West Africa, and Latin America, where he visits his allied countries: Nicaragua and Venezuela, governed by dictators Daniel Ortega and Nicolás Maduro, respectively.
The Iranian minister was accompanied by a delegation made up of advisers, directors and deputies from his country, who were received by the Nicaraguan foreign minister, Denis Moncada, and by some children of the dictatorial family who have been granted public office by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The Iranian official scheduled to meet with Sandinista deputies and with the dictator Daniel Ortega. In turn, he took the opportunity to sign a “Memorandum of Understanding on the Mechanism for Cooperation and Political Consultations” with his Nicaraguan counterpart, which includes establishing working meetings on issues that both countries consider to be of “mutual interest.”
Last December, Iran and Nicaragua signed a comprehensive cooperation program in various fields such as energy, agriculture and trade; and, according to both regimes, this new memorandum will complement the previous agreement.
