The world commemorates this May 1st International Worker’s Day. In most countries, including Venezuela, citizens march this Monday to demand their labor rights, but in Nicaragua there is not even the possibility of reading a statement asking for a salary increase.
In this context, the political group Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos) highlighted that Nicaragua lives in a context of a “protracted crisis and with thousands of Nicaraguans in exile. The dictatorship is at the root of that crisis and its consequences.
According to estimates by the United Nations (UN), from 2018 to date, in the context of the social, political and economic crisis in Nicaragua, more than 600,000 Nicaraguans have left their country of origin due to the lack of employment opportunities. employment in the country or by political persecution.
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Unamos also highlights that “the dictatorship (of Nicaragua) broke social security and violates labor rights and those of retirees, who have been robbed by lowering the calculation of their pension. To this we must add the situation of the hundreds of thousands of exiles who cannot withdraw the pension to which they are entitled, and the more than 300 Nicaraguans illegally stripped of their nationality and their citizenship rights.
One of the cases that reflect the theft of the pension is that of Mónica Baltodano. Her family has been a victim of Ortega repression and despite the fact that contributors take away their pension from the daughter of the former Sandinista guerrilla commander, they intend to continue collecting her optional insurance.
At the beginning of April 2023, Mónica López Baltodano, Mónica Baltodano’s daughter, denounced the “impudence” of the dictatorship to continue sending payments corresponding to her optional insurance after stripping her of her nationality.
«Professional level of cynicism: emails from the INSS (Nicaraguan Social Security Institute) charging me for optional insurance, which I used to pay to accumulate fees, after they stole my mom and dad’s old-age pension, appropriating decades of other people’s work. They erased our nationality but they continue to charge, “said the Baltodano complaint.
The Popol Nah Foundation was confiscated from the Baltodano family after its legal status was canceled along with another group of NGOs in December 2018. In the facilities of that organization, the regime ordered the Ministry of Health to install a maternity home.
For his part, the economist and political prisoner Juan Sebastián Chamorro wrote on his social networks that in Nicaragua there is “nothing to celebrate on International Workers’ Day. The country suffers from a deep structural economic crisis, aggravated by the dictatorial crisis that has generated the greatest flow of Nicaraguans abroad. Having a job has become a luxury.
