Ortega, against all Persecution in Nicaragua
The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) has communicated its "protest with all energy" against the arrest warrant issued by the Nicaraguan Prosecutor's Office against the Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez, Cervantes Prize in 2017, Nicaraguan academic of the language and corresponding member of the RAE .
Ramírez was accused last week "of the
same crimes of incitement to hatred and violence,
undermining national integrity, and others that I have not had time to read, for which they are imprisoned, in the dungeons of the same family, many worthy and brave Nicaraguans, "the writer said in a recorded message.
By "the same family," Ramírez refers to Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, president and vice president of Nicaragua, the couple who led the country in 1981 and 1990 and from 2007 to the present.
Ortega, since 2017, has faced opposition protests by his authoritarian government with a
harsh
policy of repression
that has landed hundreds of dissidents in jail.
During these years, Ramírez has avoided that threat thanks to his international literary prestige.
His arrest warrant now has symbolic value.
Ortega is not stopped by anything.
Neither does memory: in the early years of Sandinista governments, the writer was foreign minister, vice president, and the true driving force behind the Sandinista revolution, in which Ortega played an iconic rather than an executive role.
Later, the turn toward personalism of the Sandinista party and the frustrated demand to evolve toward democracy caused
Ramírez to fall from grace
.
First, he was an opposition candidate for a neo-Sandinista and democratic party;
later, he was critical of the system.
For years, Ramírez was pressured to leave his country but
kept up his challenge
to the dictatorship.
Up to now. Ortega has referred to opponents as "lackeys" of foreign interests and has rejected any twist in his policy. In Ramírez's defense, voices such as that of the RAE and several Spanish academies in America have been raised, which has lamented "the serious attempt to curtail freedom of expression to prevent free debate on opinions and ideas," according to the statement. of the academies. "
Words must be used freely by everyone
; avoiding the free expression of all kinds of opinions, especially those of political content, is the most intolerable form of arbitrary exercise of power because it leads to the oppression of citizens for the exclusive benefit of the prevailing. We demand the
immediate lifting of the measures adopted against our admired colleague
Don Sergio Ramírez ".
The
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
(IACHR) and the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for Central America and the Dominican Republic also asked Nicaragua on Friday to stop the "arbitrary and illegal" detentions of opponents, after 36 people have been arrested before the next November elections in that country.
In a statement dated in Washington and Panama, international organizations condemned the "criminalization of persons identified as political opponents in Nicaragua," in particular the recent arrest, search and accusation order against Ramírez.
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