Nicaragua withdrew this Tuesday the position granted to the new ambassador of the European Union in Managua, due to the “intrusive, daring and insolent statement” issued by the European block on the crisis of the last five years in the Central American country.
“Faced with your meddling, daring and insolent statement today, which confirms the imperialist and colonialist positions that characterize the European Union, this April 18, on the eve of the National Peace Day, the Government [da Nicarágua] decided to suspend the position that had been granted to Fernando Ponz, as ambassador of that overwhelming power,” Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada declared in a letter.
In the letter, addressed to the Secretariat for Foreign Affairs of the European Union (EU), based in Brussels, the head of Nicaraguan diplomacy said: “In these circumstances, and given the permanent attack on the right to national sovereignty of our people, will not receive their representative”.
In the document, Nicaragua also reiterated “to the neocolonialist gentlemen of the European Union” its condemnation “of all their historic genocide”, demanding “justice and reparation for these crimes against humanity and for their virulent, greedy and voracious looting” of their towns. “own wealth and culture”.
The EU today underlined its willingness to support a “democratic, peaceful and negotiated” solution to the socio-political crisis in Nicaragua, exactly five years after the start of the popular protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega.
“On this sad anniversary, the EU confirms its willingness to support all efforts aimed at a democratic, peaceful and negotiated solution to the protracted political crisis in Nicaragua”, said the spokesman for the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell. .
He added that the EU “has systematically condemned” the repression of the protesters and “has repeatedly called for the release of all political prisoners, the full return to the rule of law and the return of international human rights organizations to the country.”
“In addition, the EU has regularly encouraged the Nicaraguan government to engage in a genuine and inclusive dialogue with the Nicaraguan people on their legitimate claims,” said the spokesperson for the head of community diplomacy.
He recalled that five years have passed “since thousands of Nicaraguan citizens took to the streets to express their legitimate demands for human rights, particularly civil and political rights, and for the return of democracy.”
“Instead of having their demands heard and respected, the people of Nicaragua have since faced systemic repression,” he lamented.
The political crisis in Nicaragua began with the April 18, 2018 protests against changes made to the country’s social security system.
This popular protest resulted in the death of at least 355 people, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), although Nicaraguan organizations put the figure at 684, and unleashed a wave of repression against dissent.
President Ortega acknowledges that “more than 300” were killed and insists that it was an attempted coup.
The political and social crisis worsened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth presidential term -the fourth in a row and the second with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president-, after to have put in prison, still in the pre-campaign, his main opponents in the race.
Source: TSF
