Mauricio Macri and other former Ibero-American presidents
joined the critical voices that were raised here and in other countries against the silence of the region's governments, such as that of
Alberto Fernández,
in the face of Daniel Ortega's new onslaught against the Nicaraguan opposition.
The dictator has banished from Nicaragua more than
300 opponents and political prisoners, intellectuals
and figures that are dangerous to him: he has
taken away their citizenship,
framed them as traitors to the Homeland and is confiscating the property they leave in their country when forced to to abandon it.
At the same time, a group of representatives from Together for Change, including Karina Banfi, Sabrina Ajmechet, Maximiliano Ferraro and Graciela Ocaña, among others, presented a project for the Executive to apply the General Law for the Recognition and Protection of
People Stateless"
and
give Argentine nationality
to those Nicaraguans who wish to be so after losing them due to the actions of the Ortega-Rosario Murillo couple.
Former President Mauricio Macri
Banfi complained in a tweet of a
"cold response"
by the Foreign Ministry regarding Ortega's massive onslaught against political prisoners, many of them victims of the bloody repression of the 2018 protests.
Banfi accused the Foreign Ministry of ignoring the Statelessness Law, which he worked on drafting and which, according to what the ruling party has revealed, could not be used for exiled Nicaraguans.
"Tell the truth, you do not recognize the violation of the human rights of Nicaraguans,"
he rebuked them.
For his part, Macri signed a press release along with twenty-one other former presidents, all liberals, who
make up the so-called Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA).
It is signed by, among other former heads of state and government, the Spanish
José María Aznar
;
the Mexican
Felipe Calderón
;
Lucio Gutierrez and Lenin Moreno, from Ecuador, Sebastián
Piñera
, from Chile, plus Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga from Bolivia.
And he begins by saying that
"they regret the silence of the governments of the region
-with the exception of the presidents of Chile, Gabriel Boric, and of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso-
before the dictatorial onslaught in Nicaragua”.
He does
not
The IDEA statement recalls that the Ortega regime has
exiled 222 political prisoners
as part of an agreement with Washington for those political prisoners from the 2018 student protests. The group traveled to the United States, but that agreement implied stripping them of their nationality and confiscating their his property, as he did with 94 other intellectuals and personalities, including the writer
Gioconda Belli
and former Sandinista vice president
Sergio Ramirez.
As if that were not enough, the
Bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Alvarez, did not want to be exiled
in the agreement with the United States and so
they sent him to prison for 26 years.
“The members of the IDEA Group are concerned that the president of the United Mexican States, Andrés Manuel López Obrador
,
leaving aside his repeated principle of non-intervention, accuses the democratic and provisional government of Peru of being spurious in order to avoid transferring the
pro- presidency to him.
Tempore
of the Pacific Alliance, while keeping silent about the exercise and violations of human rights perpetrated by the Ortega-Murillo couple” in Nicaragua.
At the time, the president also joined the
requests for the reinstatement of
Pedro Castillo
in the Peruvian presidency
, who, however, had carried out a coup d'état.
The former president remains in custody.
But Argentina, unlike Colombia's Gustavo Petro and Mexico's López Obrador,
remained silent after the Lima protest.
The government of Alberto Fernandez maintains
a double-standard relationship with Nicaragua,
although more distant than the affectionate bond with Venezuela and Cuba, inherited from that of Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
On the one hand, in the United Nations he criticizes the atrocities of the regime and in the field of the Organizations of American States (OAS) he comes and goes with his positions because he maintains an arm-wrestling with his secretary general, Luis Almagro.
At the time, Alberto F. had called the ambassador in Managua, Daniel Mateo Capitanich, for consultations, as a form of protest for the political prisoners of the regime.
But he restored it
by negotiating the dictator's support for Alberto's candidacy
as CELAC president during 2022.
Fernández's position has ended and is now held by the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Ralph Gonsalves,
who has not promoted a single statement for the treatment of opponents of Ortega, one of Ortega's greatest allies.
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Spain: they will give nationality to another 94 Nicaraguans who were expelled from their country