Spain offers nationality to the 222 political prisoners exiled by Nicaragua

The judge who certified the expulsion reported that all were deprived of their political rights in perpetuity, and the government would withdraw their Nicaraguan nationality.

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The Spanish government will offer Spanish nationality to the 222 political prisoners released by Nicaragua, expelled to the United States and who they will be stripped of their nationalityannounced the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, in an interview broadcast this Friday.

“The Government offers Spanish nationality to these 222 released prisoners, given the news that started the process to declare them stateless“Albares told the Spanish media outlet Servimedia, information confirmed by the ministry to AFP.

Albares specified that they will come into contact with the opponents, and that the process could be fast, through the naturalization letter.

The 222 opponents were released Thursday in Nicaragua by the government of Daniel Ortega and deported to the United States, the president himself announced.

Among the released opponents was the former presidential candidate Cristiana Chamorro and her brother and former minister Pedro Joaqun Chamorro, as well as other politicians who intended to challenge Ortega in the last elections. Both are sons of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1990-1997).

The Nicaraguan judge who certified the expulsion reported that all were deprived of their rights in perpetuity. political rightsand the government will withdraw their Nicaraguan nationality.

In this sense, the Parliament made up of supporters of Ortega approved on Thursday a law according to which “traitors to the country lose the quality of Nicaraguan national.” The standard requires a second legislative approval in the second semester this year, which is taken for granted.

Hundreds of opponents were detained in Nicaragua in the context of the repression that followed the protests that broke out in 2018 against Ortegain power since 2007 and successively re-elected in contested elections.

An illustrious Nicaraguan, the writer Sergio Ramrez, and other Latin American opponents, such as the Cuban Yunior García, or the Venezuelan Leopoldo Lópezsettled in Spain in recent times.

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