Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez accepted Ecuadorian citizenship

Ecuador announced this Friday that the novelist and former Nicaraguan vice president

granted by the president of the South American country, Guillermo Lasso.

Argentina had also informally offered him nationality, but the writer finally accepted the Ecuadorian offer, which maintains a much more critical position towards the Daniel Ortega regime than the Alberto Fernández government.

Ramírez, whose nationality was withdrawn by the government of Daniel Ortega - alleging "treason against the homeland -", "has gladly accepted the offer" of Lasso, indicated the General Secretariat of Communication of the presidential headquarters in a note.

"Ecuador thus recognizes its fight for freedom, which is the fight of every Latin American who loves his people," the president said in a phone call to Ramírez, according to the official statement.

Colombia also offered nationality to the award-winning writer, exiled in Spain and a symbol of stateless Nicaraguans.

"The nationality delivery ceremony will take place on a date close to being agreed," said the Ecuadorian Communications Secretariat.

Last week Managua declared 94 exiled opponents "traitors to the homeland", including the writer Gioconda Belli, stripping them of their nationality and disqualifying them for life from holding public office.

This measure came after 222 political prisoners were released in Nicaragua and expelled to the United States, in addition to withdrawing their nationality.

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