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The deprivation of citizenship of 59 Nicaraguan women, including the writer Gioconda Belli, the legendary former guerrilla Dora Maria Telles, the veteran human rights activist Vilma Nunez and
The deprivation of citizenship of 59 Nicaraguan women, including the writer Gioconda Belli, the legendary former guerrilla Dora Maria Telles, the veteran human rights activist Vilma Nunez and the journalist Cristiana Chamorro, critics and opponents of the government of Daniel Ortega, is the latest violation of women’s human rights in Nicaragua.
It was condemned this Wednesday by the Nunca Más Nicaragua Human Rights Collective on the occasion of International Women’s Day, which accused the Sandinista government of “systematic violations of their (women’s) rights, in particular the deprivation of citizenship, exile and confiscation experienced by Nicaraguan citizens.”
Over the past month, Nicaragua has revoked the citizenship of 317 Nicaraguans, including writers Sergio Ramirez y Belli, Bishops Rolando Alvarez and Silvio Baez, former revolutionary commander Luis Carrion, journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro and others. was very critical of the Ortega government.
The list, which is headed by Belli, Telles and Nunez, dissidents who fought against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, includes 59 women who were declared stateless after authorities accused them of “treason” and “fugitives from justice.” courts of this country.
Another denationalized is the freed and exiled journalist Cristiana Chamorro, daughter of former President Violetta Chamorro (1990-1997) and who was the contender for the presidency of Nicaragua from the opposition most likely to defeat the incumbent president in the elections. dated November 2021.
Also former guerrilla commander and historian Monica Baltodano; former MP Edipsia Dubon; dissident Sandinistas Suyen Barahona, Ana Margarita Vigil, Tamara Davila and Dulce Maria Porras; adversaries Alex Zamora, Heidi Castillo, Monica Lopez, Kitty Monterrey, Irelanda Jerez and Bertha Valle, wife of freed prisoner and expatriate Felix Maradiaga.
In addition, feminists Sophia Montenegro and Azahalia Solis; human rights activist Maria Oviedo; peasant leader Francisco Ramirez; researcher Elvira Cuadra; and Ligia Gomez, an employee of the Central Bank of Nicaragua.
Similarly, journalists and digital media directors Lucia Pineda (100% News), Jennifer Ortiz (Nicaragua Investiga), Patricia Orozco (Onda Local).
women in resistance
Of the 59 women declared stateless and “traitors to the motherland”, the Managua Court of Appeal also ruled for 26 of them “to immobilize and confiscate in favor of the State of Nicaragua all real estate and companies that the defendants registered in their favor either in their personal capacity or as a legal entity or companies in which they participate as partners in order to answer for the crimes committed.
The charges relate to the crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity in real competition with the crime of spreading false news through information and communication technology, all to the detriment of the Nicaraguan state and society.
For the Collective, Nicaraguan women have been living in resistance since April 2018, when demonstrations broke out over controversial welfare reforms that later became demands for the president’s resignation because he responded with force.
“After almost five years of repression by the Ortega Murillo regime in April 2018, human rights violations have not stopped against people who denounce impunity and demand justice,” said the organization, made up of Nicaraguan activists exiled to Costa Rica. Delicious.
Nicaragua has been in a political and social crisis since April 2018, which escalated after a disputed general election on November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, a fourth in a row and a second, along with his wife. Rosario Murillo as vice president with his main rivals in prison or in exile.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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