The Government of Canada could join the recent sanctions of the United States Department of the Treasury against the Nicaraguan gold business, revealed a spokesman for the Ministry of Global Affairs of the North American country to the digital media Despacho 505.
The spokesperson explained that Canada expects the companies of its nationals that maintain their operations in countries like Nicaragua to comply with high standards of responsible business conduct, in the same way that they would in their country. “This expectation applies to all Canadian companies, regardless of size, sector or scope,” the official stated.
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The mining company Mako Mining stated that “it does not expect any material change in its operations in Nicaragua” after the sanctions of the United States Department of the Treasury against the gold business in the Central American country.
The company assured that it is conducting an “internal review of the impact of the measures” in coordination with its US and Canadian advisors, and “in accordance with its commitment to comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.”
The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) classified as “contradictory” the dialogue mentioned by the Cardinal Archbishop of Managua, Leopoldo Brenes, during his visit to Rome, as the means to “lower tensions” between the regime and the Catholic Church of Nicaragua.
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The defenders pointed out that “it is contradictory for them to affirm that while in Nicaragua it remains totally silent in the face of the increase in persecution against the church and its priests.”
In addition, it demands that the people of Nicaragua deserve to know the truth about the dynamics, content and scope of that “dialogue” to support the efforts that until today seem to crash in the face of a dictatorial regime that every day increases the repression against the Catholic Church and the Nicaraguan people.
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo suffered the escape of another operator in the Judiciary.
This is the Sandinista judge María Concepción Ugarte, of the Sixth Criminal Court of Surveillance and Penitentiary Execution, who, according to sources, decided to flee from Nicaragua to the United States.
The court was the executor in the persecution against non-governmental organizations in 2008. At that time, it ordered the raids against the Communication Research Center (CINCO) and the Autonomous Women’s Movement (MAM).
