Young people from various Nicaraguan organizations expressed their desire to take advantage of their participation in the second Summit for Democracy, which is being held on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, to “make visible” the situation in their country.
The event, convened by the United States and co-sponsored by Costa Rica, the Netherlands, South Korea and Zambia, will provide an important space for young people, Government sources announced this week in conversation with the media.
Enrique Martínez, leader of the Youth and Student Unit that will participate in some of the forums of the Summit told the voice of america which, in the first instance, intends to draw attention to the broad deterioration in terms of democracy, human rights and freedoms that Nicaragua is experiencing.
In the same way, it wants to address the consequences that the Nicaraguan crisis has had, with “direct repercussions on youth, where some examples are evident such as forced migration, lack of decent employment, education with partisan political influence, political clientelism and elimination of spaces for citizen participation.
For his part, Yader Valdivia, from the Nicaragua Nunca Más Collective, who will also be present at one of the parallel forums to the Summit, stressed that Nicaragua’s presence is important in these spaces because the crisis that, according to him, is “visible” is provoked by Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo before the region.
Martínez, for his part, shares that the Summit for Democracy generates synergy with other youth actors in the region, “to directly contextualize the repressive political situation that exists in the interior of Nicaragua.”
Meeting of the US Ambassador to the UN with exiles
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, representative of the United States to the United Nations, will be in Costa Rica from March 29 to 31 for the summit and, according to a releasewill meet with members of civil society and with Nicaraguans “who have fled the repressive regime of Ortega-Murillo.”
In Costa Rica there are more than 100,000 Nicaraguans who have fled the political crisis that country has been experiencing since 2018.
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