The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá (PPD), responded to the mayor and former communist presidential candidate, Daniel Jadue, who criticized the decision of the Government of Gabriel Boric to offer asylum and nationality to the three hundred Nicaraguans expatriated by the Daniel Ortega regime.
Jadue pointed out, recalling La Moneda’s reaction to a statement by the Puebla Group, that “the Government of Chile said that it was inappropriate for representatives of other countries to have words and opinions on external problems; I would recommend to the Government that it worry about the problems that exist in the country“.
“I prefer not to express myself with what happens in other countries and here in Chile there is a lot to worry about. It strikes me that they ask me about that and not about the violations of Human Rights in the West Bank by Israelis. I prefer to worry about the Chile’s problems,” he said on radio Future.
Likewise, he said that he does not judge Daniel Ortega, a leader whom, on the contrary, President Boric has branded as a dictator.
Words to which Tohá replied, who interpreted that “Definitely (Jadue) has a very different vision of what a country’s commitment to human rights is.”
“Chile has a commitment to DD. H H. and it certainly goes beyond our border; we care about the rights of human beings around the worldand when there is a sister country, like Nicaragua, where a government is depriving people of their nationality for thinking differently, we remember a lot about things that we experienced in Chile,” the chief of staff remarked.
Since February 9 a total of 317 Nicaraguans have been declared statelessamong them the writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli and Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison after refusing to be exiled by the Ortega government along with 222 released political prisoners and expelled to the United States.
COMMUNIST PARTY REGRETS EXISTENCES, BUT AVOID “INTERVENING”
Also this Wednesday the Communist Party issued a public statement in which it regretted “the measure of exile of 222 Nicaraguan citizens through an administrative process, as a way to resolve a situation that is of a political nature”; however, he said that with that opinion does not intend to “intervene in the internal affairs of that sister country.”
He recalled that “this type of measure, which in our opinion constitutes violations of human rights, was applied to hundreds and thousands of Chilean men and women under the civil-military dictatorship of Pinochet and the right.”
On the other hand, the Political Commission of the PC assured that The United States “has not given up its goal of intervening to overthrow the current Nicaraguan government, and its Moorish hand has a lot to do with the events of political crisis in that country, with financing, communication maneuvers and other elements that are difficult to hide (…) an intervention that also constitutes a violation of the human rights of all the people of Nicaragua”.
In this context, “we trust that the Nicaraguan people will manage to overcome a complex political scenario that goes beyond administrative measures, we know that the sovereignty of that country is also in question, threats that hang over other countries. We hope that the rebound in processes democrats strengthen the Latin Caribbean unity to face such threats,” the store said in a note that does not mention Daniel Ortega.
Although he stressed that Chile has a “recognized foreign policy of asylum for political persecuted people,” he called for the case of Peru not to be left aside, “where the people fight so hard against a de facto repressive and insensitive government.”
ASYLUM AND NATIONALITY PROCESS NOT YET EXPLAINED
In parallel, the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs has yet to clarify what the process will be like that will allow exiled and expatriate Nicaraguan opponents to reside in the country and obtain Chilean nationality. Analysts estimate that the Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons, ratified by Chile in 2018, should be applied.
One of those stripped of their nationality is Manuel Orozco, director of the Migration, Remittances and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue think tankwho from Washington (USA) thanked the Chilean offer.
“(In the Ortega regime) they believe that they can withstand this international criticism and world condemnation, especially if it comes from a country like Chile, which they do not hate because they see that the Chilean team and what the current government of Chile represents is the image of what Nicaragua is not. The offer for me is a very great honor and symbolically I would like to take it on, but I have another citizenship that protects me,” she commented.
In any case, he pointed out that it had been explained to him that the eventual request would be processed by the Foreign Ministry and the National Migration Service. However, not all have contacted, since the sociologist and researcher Elvira Cuadra said in Cooperative that it has not received formal clarification on the process.
In the political realm, the Former Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz (PPD) strongly supported the noble and supportive gesture of President Boric with stateless Nicaraguans deprived of their nationality and expelled from their country by the dictatorial regime of Daniel Ortega“.
“As the Government has communicated, this protection and obtaining of nationality must be in accordance with the constitutional and legal norms of our country. Nationality by grace requires the agreement of the National Congress,” he stated.
He writer Sergio Ramírez accepted a similar offer from ColombiaWhile the poet Gioconda Belli She was deeply grateful that Chile and Argentina have forcibly made nationality available to her and her expatriate compatriots.
ANALYST HIGHLIGHTS PRESIDENT BORIC’S POSITION
For him international analyst Samuel Fernándezacademic from the Central University, the path of the Chilean Government in the face of the crisis in Nicaragua “It is an important position taken at the time that it is a left-leaning government and very similar to other Latin Americans“.
He compared, in this sense, that among the leaders of governments of the same political color in the region “in many cases they have not wanted to condemn and have not said any word whatsoever regarding what happened in Nicaragua, which is absolutely arbitrary and contrary to the rights humans”.