The judiciary announced this on Wednesday (local time). The expatriates also include the Central American country’s most important contemporary writers, Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli, as well as a bishop and journalists already in exile. They were classified as fugitives from justice. Their property must be confiscated.
The government of ex-guerrilla fighters Daniel Ortega is using harsh means against its critics. Last week, 222 people were deported to the United States who human rights activists say were detained for political reasons. They were also stripped of their Nicaraguan citizenship. In 2018, more than 350 people were killed in anti-government protests.
Former Sandinista revolutionary Ortega has ruled uninterruptedly for 16 years. After the fall of dictator Anastasio Somoza, he came to power for the first time in 1979, first as a member of a government junta and then as president.
He was voted out in 1990, but returned as head of state and government in 2007. Ortega’s wife, Rosario Murillo, has served as Vice President since 2017. Before his controversial re-election in 2021, Ortega had seven competing candidates arrested. (sda/dpa)
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