Before flying to Antarctica with Alberto Fernández on Thursday, Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero instructed his team in Buenos Aires and the Argentine mission in Washington for the country to accede to a statement critical of the Organization of American States (OAS) on treatment of political opponents of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega.
Call on the Nicaraguan authorities to do so release “immediately all political prisoners and allow access to the territory, without obstacles, of international human rights organizations”.
how he learned clarion From Latin American sources in Buenos Aires, the declaration voted this Thursday welcomes, on the one hand, the recent release of some 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners – the result of an agreement between the regime in Managua and Washington – and, on the other hand, the other , rejects the decision of Ortega and his MP and wife, Rosario Murillo, to deprive said exiles of their Nicaraguan citizenship, to confiscate their assets.
In reality there are more than 300 if we add the 94 intellectuals and personalities of Nicaragua who were already in exile and who Ortega and Murillo placed in the same condition as the 222 of “traitors to the fatherland”. Among the latter is Bishop Rolando Alvarez – who did not want to go into exile – and Ortega and Murillo sent him back to prison.
The Government’s stance on the abuses in Nicaragua comes after Foreign Minister Cafiero found himself in the situation of going on the radio to say that Argentina was willing to offer citizenship to any opponent of that country who requested it in virtues, as well as a law that protects them.
In recent hours, opposition leaders have criticized what they called the regional “silence” on the treatment of opponents in Nicaragua.
The government has always criticized the abuses of the Ortega regime in the UN Human Rights Council, but in the OAS it has had different positions. Managua, for his part, has announced that he will withdraw from this organization due to criticism of him.
“We regret that, as the IACHR (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) pointed out in its February 13 statement, although these political prisoners have been released, the Nicaraguan government has taken steps to deprive them of their citizenship, leaving them in a stateless condition, and all their political rights”, he begins by saying the declaration that Fernández and Cafiero support and that, once again, they will not have to support the ultra-Kirchnerist ambassador Carlos Raimundi -who is openly pro-Chavista and pro-Sandinista- because he is on holiday.
“We recall that, pursuant to article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to citizenship and no one can be arbitrarily deprived of it”, reads the statement and continues.
And calls on the government of Nicaragua to “cease all violent action against the country’s population and fully restore civil and political rights, religious freedoms and the rule of law; and to put an end to all forms of intimidation and harassment of journalists, media and non-governmental organizations”.
And he urges “the government of Nicaragua to cease the repression and arbitrary detention of community leaders, including those of the Catholic Church, and to allow international human rights organizations unhindered access to its territory, in a spirit of transparency and responsibility”.
The declaration, broad and illustrative, calls on the government of Nicaragua to respect the commitments enshrined in the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which recognizes representative democracy as essential for the stability, peace and development of the region and which the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa, signed on September 11, 2001″
Source: Clarin
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