The jurist Uriel Pineda, a specialist in human rights, one of the 94 stripped of Nicaraguan nationality by the Ortega Murillo regime, asked the Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, that his country “disregard” the actions of the justice of the dictatorship of the Central American country.
«… based on the First Article of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and the international commitments of the Mexican State in the field of Human Rights and motivated by reasons of a humanitarian nature due to the practical implications that the arbitrary dispossession of my possessions have in my daily life. my nationality,” says Pineda’s letter to the Mexican foreign minister.
The Nicaraguan lawyer has been a permanent resident in the Aztec country since 2014, as explained in the letter to the Mexican authorities. In addition, he explains that he is the son of Nicaraguan parents and that he was born in the national territory, therefore the Political Constitution protects him and his nationality cannot be stripped.
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“The arbitrary stripping of my nationality makes me stateless and generates serious inconveniences of enormous impact on my daily life, such as the absence of a travel document and a personal identification document, since my permanent resident card does not have such a character,” he says.
“Both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (art. 15.2) and the American Convention on Human Rights (art. 20.3) recognize the right of every person not to be arbitrarily deprived of their nationality. For its part, the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States establishes that all people enjoy the human rights recognized in the Constitution and in the international treaties to which the Mexican is a party (art. 1)”, he adds.
Pineda and 93 other people were declared “traitors to the homeland” on February 15 by the Ortega justice system. Judge Ernesto Rodríguez, president of the Managua Court of Appeals (TAM), read a “resolution” that stripped Nicaraguans of their nationality and ordered the confiscation of all their assets in the country.
The international community and international human rights organizations have spoken out in rejection of the actions of the dictatorship. They consider that it violates national and international laws.
