Ecuador announced this Friday that the novelist and former Nicaraguan vice president Sergio Ramírez “satisfied” accepted Ecuadorian nationality 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 government of Alberto Fernández.
Ramírez, whose citizenship was withdrawn by the government of Daniel Ortega – citing “treason against the country -“, “accepted willingly the offer” of Lasso, indicated in a note the General Secretariat of Communications of the presidential headquarters.
“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 has also offered nationality to the award-winning writer, exiled to Spain and a symbol of stateless Nicaraguans.
“The ceremony of handing over the nationality will take place on a date close to the agreement,” said Ecuador’s Secretariat of Communications.
Last week Managua declared 94 exiled opponents “traitors to the homeland”, including the writer Gioconda Belli, depriving them of their nationality and banning them for life from public office.
This measure came after 222 political prisoners were released in Nicaragua and deported to the United States, as well as having their nationalities withdrawn.
Source: Clarin
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