He High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrellassured this Thursday that the bloc’s position on Nicaragua “is very clear” and that the measures of the Daniel Ortega regime against its new ambassador in the Latin American country in response to his request for democracy will not “silence” them.
“Our position regarding Nicaragua is very clear. We believe that it is a pure and hard, hard, hard dictatorship”, Borrell said in an interview for the news agency EFE.
The top leader of European diplomacy recalled that the bloc has “criticized and condemned the violation of human rights that occurs there”despite this it maintains as much as it can “help and cooperation” in the country.
“And yes, from time to time that happens, since they don’t like our criticism, they withdraw the pleasantries made to our ambassadors. It already happened with Venezuela, but that will not silence usBorell said.
On Tuesday, Nicaragua withdrew the placet to Fernando Ponz due to a statement released by the community organization on the crisis that the Central American country has been experiencing for five years.
In Tuesday’s statement, The European Union supports a “democratic, peaceful and negotiated” solution to the sociopolitical crisis in Nicaragua5 years after the protests against the Sandinista dictatorship began.
I also remembered the “systematic condemnation” of the European block to the repression against the protesters and that he has “repeatedly requested the release of all political prisonersthe full return to the Rule of Law and the return of international human rights organizations to the country”.
Likewise, it urged the Nicaraguan regime to enter into a genuine and inclusive dialogue with society about “its legitimate demands”.
Nicaragua responded by means of a letter addressed to the EU Foreign Office, ensuring that “in these circumstances and in the face of the permanent siege of our people’s right to national sovereignty, we will not receive their representative.”
The political crisis that Nicaragua is experiencing began with the protests of April 18, 2018 by the reforms of the social security system.
These events ended with the death of at least 355 people, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), although Nicaraguan organizations raise the number to 684, and unleashed a wave of repression against dissent.
The Nicaraguan dictator acknowledged that “more than 300” were killed and maintains that it was a Coup attempt.
The political and social crisis worsened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth in a row and second with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with his main contenders in prison.
(With information from EFE)
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