Colombia now does condemn Ortega: "Records with revulsion the measures taken by the head of government of the sister and long-suffering Republic of Nicaragua"

The Government of Gustavo Petro has now firmly joined the international condemnation of the Daniel Ortega regime in Nicaragua, after the exile of 222 political prisoners on February 9.

The Foreign Ministry has rejected this Thursday "the dictatorial procedures of those who bring to mind the worst moments of the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship", in reference to the autocrat that the Sandinista Revolution, led by Ortega, overthrew in 1979. "Colombia has registered with repulsion the measures taken arbitrarily by the head of government of the sister and long-suffering Republic of Nicaragua against citizens of their country whose only crime has been to defend democracy, the right to criticism and universal human rights," the statement read.

The tone of the Foreign Ministry differs from that used a few days ago, when another statement lamented the loss of nationality of the 222 prisoners expelled on February 9 and expressed its "concern" about the stripping of the citizenship of another 94 opponents on February 15 .

"The Government of Colombia calls for the generation of confidence-building measures that contribute to national reconciliation, respect for the rule of law, and the well-being of the Nicaraguan people," he declared at the time.

According to the text, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was following "carefully" Nicaragua's decisions regarding an important group of people still detained in that country.

The Andean country now reinforces its commitment and calls for several measures from the international community.

He has asked the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, to obtain authorization to visit the prisoners who are still in Nicaragua.

“Victims they are.

International Humanitarian Law covers them ”, she has justified.

In addition, Colombia urges the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to take action: “The authoritarianism that has been imposed on the sister republic has infringed

norms .

Those of which it has been defined that they are prevailing, non-derogable, absolute, peremptory, immutable in essence”.

Colombia has offered nationality to all those who have been abused "by the intolerant power of Nicaragua."

"We would be greatly honored," the statement said.

The measure comes after weeks of silence, in which it was surprising that other countries like Spain took the initiative.

The Government of Pedro Sánchez offered Spanish nationality on February 10 to the 222 political prisoners that the regime had put on a plane to the United States the day before.

Later, on February 17, he extended the initiative to the other 94 opponents stripped of their nationality on the 15th of that month.

Meanwhile, in Latin America silence was maintained.

Chile and Argentina acted a few days later.

Both countries offered citizenship on February 21 to the writer and former vice president Sergio Ramírez, one of the 94 opponents who were stripped of their nationality in the second round of reprisals.

Colombia informed the following day that it replicated the decision, "Yesterday, in Madrid, Spain, interpreting the solidarity of the country as a whole and the sentiment of President Gustavo Petro, I offered Colombian nationality to the Nicaraguan politician, intellectual and writer," declared the foreign minister, Álvaro Leyva.

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