Violation of women’s rights in Nicaragua

Revocation of citizenship of 59 Nicaraguan women, including writer Gioconda Belli, legendary former guerrilla Dora María Téllez, veteran human rights defender Vilma Núñez and journalist Cristiana Chamorro, critics and opponents of the government Daniel Ortega, It is the latest violation of women’s human rights in Nicaragua.

This is how he condemned him Collective for Human Rights Nicaragua Nunca Más, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, which accused the Sandinista government of continuing “the systematic violation of their (women’s) rights, especially the deprivation of citizenship, exile and confiscation experienced by the citizens of Nicaragua.”

In the last month, Nicaragua revoked the citizenship of 317 Nicaraguansamong them the writers Sergio Ramírez y Belli, the bishops Rolando Álvarez and Silvio Báez, the former commander of the revolution Luis Carrión, the journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, among others, all very critical of Ortega’s government.

The list, led by Belli, Téllez and Núñez, dissidents who fought against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, includes 59 women who have been declared stateless after being accused of being “traitors to the country” and “fugitives from justice” by the judicial authorities of that country.

The other denationalized is the freed and exiled journalist Cristiana Chamorro, the daughter of former president Violeta Chamorro (1990-1997) and who was an aspiring candidate for the presidency of Nicaragua for the opposition most likely to defeat the current president in the November 2021 elections.

Also former guerrilla commander and historian Mónica Baltodano; former deputy Edipcia Dubón; Sandinista dissidents Suyen Barahona, Ana Margarita Vigil, Támara Dávila and Dulce María Porras; opponents Alexa Zamora, Haydee Castillo, Mónica López, Kitty Monterrey, Irlanda Jérez and Berta Valle, the wife of a released prisoner and an emigrant Felix Maradiaga.

In addition, feminists Sofia Montenegro and Azahalia Solís; human rights defender María Oviedo; peasant leader Francisca Ramírez; researcher Elvira Cuadra; and Ligia Gómez, who was an official of the Central Bank of Nicaragua.

Likewise, journalists and digital media directors Lucía Pineda (100% News), Jennifer Ortíz (Nicaragua Investiga), Patricia Orozco (Local Wave).

Of the 59 women declared stateless i “traitors of the motherland”The Court of Appeal of Managua also ordered for the 26 of them “the immobilization and confiscation in favor of the State of Nicaragua of all real estate and companies that the defendants registered in their favor, either personally or as a legal person or company in which they participate as partners, to answer for the crimes committed”.

The charges relate to criminal acts of conspiracy to undermine national integrity in real competition with the criminal act of spreading false news through information and communication technology, all to the detriment Country of Nicaragua and society.

For him CollectiveNicaraguan women have been living in resistance since April 2018, when protests erupted over controversial social security reforms and later became demands for the president’s resignation because he responded with force.

“After almost five years of repression carried out by the Ortega Murillo regime in April 2018, human rights violations have not stopped against people who denounce impunity and demand justice”said the organization, which consists of Nicaraguan activists exiled in Costa Rica.

Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which worsened after the controversial general elections on November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth consecutive and second with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with her main competitors in prison or in exile.