Spain offers nationality to the 222 political prisoners exiled by Nicaragua

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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

, announced 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

," Albares told Spanish news outlet Servimedia, information confirmed by the ministry to AFP.

Albares specified that they will contact the opponents, and that the process could be fast, through the

.

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

, 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

in perpetuity , and 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 homeland lose the quality of Nicaraguan national."

The rule requires a second

of 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

, in power since 2007 and successively reelected in disputed elections.

An illustrious Nicaraguan, the writer Sergio Ramírez, and other Latin American opponents, such as the Cuban

, have recently settled in Spain.

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