Various Nicaraguans who were declared stateless by the Ortega Murillo dictatorship have expressed their solidarity with the governments of Gabriel Boric and Alberto Fernández, presidents of Chile and Argentina respectively, for offering the nationality of these countries.
“I treasure that the Government of Chile joins the possibility of offering us the due international protection, residence and Chilean nationality to those of us who were arbitrarily stripped of our Nicaraguan nationality by the Ortega Murillo tyranny,” opposition member Haydée Castillo, a of the 94 expatriates on February 15.
For his part, the executive secretary of the Inter-American Legal Assistance Center for Human Rights (Calidh), Danny Ramírez-Ayérdiz, affirmed that upon learning of the offer from Argentina, the country where he resides, he will not stop demanding that Nicaragua respect his nationality. “I have the right to be Nicaraguan,” he said on the same social network.
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«A beautiful gesture and solidarity, worked from the chancellery of Antonia Urrejola. Very grateful to Gabriel Boric, the government of Spain and Argentina. A human diplomacy in the face of Ortega-Murillo barbarity,” added journalist Wilfredo Miranda, another of those affected by the regime’s decisions.
The released and exiled politician Alex Hernández also spoke. «Argentina and Chile offer support to Nicaraguan expatriates, exiles and stripped of their nationality. How beautiful is Latin American solidarity », he said.
«Thanks to Spain, Argentina and Chile for offering nationality to the 316 stateless persons of the Nicaraguan regime. What other countries will join? Will the USA do the same? Any other European country? », She wrote on her Twitter Starina Jerez, daughter of the released prisoner and political exile Irlanda Jerez, one of the stateless.
The lawyer and former official of the Judiciary, Yader Morazán, questioned that the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship “has the luxury of expelling” professionals from his own country, but grants Nicaraguan nationality to “criminals like (Salvador Sánchez) Cerén, ( Mauricio) Funes”, both former presidents of El Salvador prosecuted in their country for corruption and asylum seekers in Nicaragua. “On the other hand, democratic countries and with better living standards offer us even nationality!” He affirmed.
«The global solidarity towards Nicaraguans who are being affected by the Ortega Murillo dictatorship continues. Now it is Chile that offers citizenship to exiled Nicaraguans. Thanks to Gabriel Boric for being the voice that sounds condemning the dictators of Nicaragua,” thanked the sports writer, released from political prison and exiled on February 9, Miguel Mendoza.
Spain was the first country that offered nationality to expatriates by the Nicaraguan regime. This Tuesday, February 21, Argentina and Chile joined. There are 317 Nicaraguans who have been declared stateless and now have the option of applying for citizenship in any of those three countries.
Ortega reformed article 21 of the Political Constitution of the Republic to remove Nicaraguan nationality from dissident voices to his regime. Lawyers and local and international human rights organizations have affirmed that what the Ortega judges did was in violation of international law.
