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Inter-American Court of Human Rights orders the release of 9 imprisoned opponents in Nicaragua | International
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The court also urged the government of Daniel Ortega to allow political prisoners contact with their families and lawyers, and guarantee immediate access to health services and medications.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH) ordered the Nicaraguan government on Monday the immediate release of nine imprisoned opponents, and that while this happens, take measures to guarantee his integrity and his life.
In a resolution of provisional measures published this Monday, the Inter-American Court requires the Nicaraguan State “Immediate release” of the president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise, Michael Healy.
Added to this is the vice president of that group, Alvaro Vargas, as well as peasant leaders Medardo Mairena and Pedro Mena.
The list is completed by communicators Jaime Arellano and Miguel Mendoza, the student leader Max Sherry and former diplomats Mauricio Diaz Davila and Edgar Parrales, the latter two under house arrest.
“The arrests and criminal proceedings initiated are part of a context of harassment of those who demonstrate in opposition to the policies of the current Nicaraguan government, which has been exacerbated due to the elections that took place in November 2021,” he says. the resolution.
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The Inter-American Court also ordered the government of Daniel Ortega to “proceed to unequivocally inform his relatives regarding his place of detention.”
Added to this is “facilitating their immediate contact with relatives and lawyers, at least once a week. This, in addition to guaranteeing immediate access to health services and medicines for the beneficiaries”.
Imprisoned opponents in Nicaragua
The judges also required the State to “immediately adopt the necessary measures to effectively protect life, integrity and liberty.” The foregoing, for all the beneficiaries of the measures and their families.
This resolution is an extension of others that the Inter-American Court has been issuing in recent months in favor of imprisoned opponents in Nicaragua who remain in prison.
The deprivation of liberty for political reasons, indicated by humanitarian organizations, was accentuated in 2018. This, when Nicaraguans came out en masse to protest once morest Ortega.
On that occasion, the protesters were violently repressed by police and paramilitaries, causing more than 355 deaths and at least 2,000 injuries.
Nicaraguan Parliament closes Academy of Language after order of Daniel Ortega | International
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Nicaragua has been going through a political, economic and social crisis since April 2018, which has worsened following the controversial general elections on November 7, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth consecutive and second along with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with his main contenders in prison.
The National Assembly (Parliament) of Nicaragua, controlled by the Sandinistas, canceled this Tuesday the legal personality of the Nicaraguan Academy of Language, what was ordered by the government of the president Daniel Ortega.
The dissolution of Nicaraguan Academy of Language, created on August 8, 1928, was approved urgently by the 75 Sandinista deputies and their allies. The other 16 legislators, of the 91 that make up Parliament, they abstained.
Among the Nicaraguan academic members of the Academy are the former vice president and writer Sergio Ramírez, exiled in Spain since last year. They are also joined by the poet and writer Gioconda Belli, also exiled.
Also Carlos Tünnermann, who was Nicaraguan ambassador to the United States and Minister of Education during the first Sandinista regime (1979-1990).
Other members are the intellectuals Jorge Eduardo Arellano, Roger Matus Lazo, Carlos German Ocampo, Rosario Fiallos Oyanguren and Pedro Xavier Solis, who directs it, among others.
Nicaraguan academies condemn the closure
Solís said that the Academy, whose offices are located in the headquarters of the Cultural Center of Spain in Nicaragua, Managua, will issue a statement.
The Academy of Nicaragua reported that it was “working on the revision, amendments and contributions to the new grammar of the Spanish language”.
He also highlighted that throughout his almost 94 years “has ensured the culture, education and development of the common language of the Hispanic peoples.”
The announced closure of the Academy of Nicaragua has been condemned by the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RAE), and the Academies of the Language of Chile, Ecuador and Mexico.
The Executive of President Ortega, through the Ministry of the Interior, ordered the closure of 83 local NGOs.
was included the Nicaraguan Academy of Language and the Enrique Bolaños Foundation, which has one of the most complete virtual libraries in the country.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, these NGOs failed to comply with the laws on the matter, including not registering in the registry of “foreign agents”.
Also the NGO that created the virtual library
In the case of the Foundation of the late former president Enrique Bolaños (2002-2007), also outlawed, it is the creator of the virtual library (www.enriquebolanos.org).
Its objective “is to collect, preserve and disseminate political, cultural, legal and historically relevant information for Nicaraguans,” according to its website.
Another NGO canceled is the Association for the Promotion of Drinking Water Committees (Red CAPS), which takes the liquid to remote places.
Also the Nora Astorga Women’s Association, which bears the name of the former deputy foreign minister and Nicaraguan ambassador to the UN during the first Sandinista government.
With the new 83 dissolved associations, the number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) outlawed since December 2018 rises to 319.
Sandinista deputy Filiberto Rodríguez, promoter of the initiative, said that the NGOs used resources from the donations they received. This, to try to overthrow Ortega during the protests that broke out in April 2018, although he has not presented evidence.
In April 2018, thousands of Nicaraguans took to the streets to protest once morest controversial social security reforms, which later turned into a demand for Ortega to resign because he responded with force.
The protests, described by the Executive as a coup attempt, left at least 355 dead, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), although local organizations raise the figure to 684 and the Government recognizes 200.
Argentina and Bolivia sign a new technical-military cooperation agreement | International
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“Argentina has good potential and can contribute and contribute if we create spaces for integration between sister nations,” said Bolivian Defense Minister Novillo Aguilar.
The defense ministers of Argentina, Jorge Taiana, and from Bolivia, Edmundo Novillo Aguilar, signed this Monday in Buenos Aires a military technical cooperation framework agreement, official sources reported.
The agreement aims to strengthen relations between the Ministries of Defense and the Armed Forces of the two countries.
“I am convinced that these are times that merit strengthening bilateral ties with generosity and breadth. The Defense is a good bridge for it”, Taiana affirmed upon receiving her Bolivian colleague in Buenos Aires.
The Argentine minister stressed that, within the framework of the National Defense Policy Directive of his country, there is a “mandate to consolidate South America as a zone of peace and walk the path towards the creation of a subregional space in terms of defence.”
“I want to make all our production capacities available to Bolivia. Our services of productive, scientific, technological and innovation system of the industrial apparatus of the Argentine defense”, he added.
Military agreement between Argentina and Bolivia
Taiana thanked Bolivia for sending forestry brigade members of the Armed Forces of that country to combat the fires that affected the Argentine province of Corrientes.
For its part, Steer Aguilar He specified that the agreement signed this Monday will strengthen cooperation in security, defense and development.
As reported by the Argentine Ministry of Defense in a statement, the agreement sealed this Monday seeks to deepen exchanges and training instances between both ministries.
Added to this is the cooperation between the Armed Forces, scientific, technological and industrial development. This, in addition to mutual assistance before emergencies and disasters, and cultural exchange on issues related to defense.
In addition, the creation of a group of Argentine-Bolivian work It will be made up of personnel from both ministries. Finally it was revealed that this will direct and coordinate the activities foreseen in the agreement.