The OAS is analyzing a resolution, while organizations reported that more than 30 people were detained in the framework of the elections by the regime.
While this Friday it was expected that at the end of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) it will be decided whether to adopt a draft resolution on Nicaragua after the controversial elections in which Daniel Ortega was re-elected, organizations criticized the actions of said regime during election day.
Since the draft resolution was promoted on Wednesday by eight countries (the United States, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Antigua and Barbuda), the separation between those who defend that the OAS toughen your position and those who ask you not to meddle, remember AFP.
The main point of the proposed resolution is to declare that these elections do not have democratic legitimacy.
The draft resolution, which can be adopted by a simple majority of 18 votes, asks the OAS Permanent Council to make “an immediate collective evaluation (…) no later than November 30 and take appropriate action.”
In any case, the text does not openly call for the activation of Article 21 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, by virtue of which a member state can be suspended if it breaks the democratic order and diplomacy does not yield results.
Meanwhile, according to At the Urnas Abiertas and Monitoring Azul y Blanco observatories, 35 people were captured by the Nicaraguan National Police in the electoral context, the majority on the eve of the general elections last Sunday, in which President Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, but not recognized by several countries in the region.
These observatories, dedicated to registering violent incidents in the context of the elections and investigating arrests for political issues, indicated that those 35 are opponents of the Government and 23 of them were captured a day before the voting, it collects EFE.
Among the detainees is the activist Nidia Barbosa, from the opposition Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, who was the Executive’s counterpart at a negotiation table with which a way out of the crisis that the country has been experiencing since April 2018 was sought. .
The observatories indicated that the arrests were carried out four days before the elections and during the election day itself, in 10 of the 17 jurisdictions in Nicaragua.
Until yesterday, sources had reported the release of nine detainees, including journalist Elvin Daniel Martínez, captured with reporter Mileydi Trujillo on election day.
After the latest inquiries, the observatories established the number of new “political prisoners” in Nicaragua at 26, which are added to another 159 identified until October 29 by the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners, to which Blue Monitoring belongs and Blanco, whose data has the support of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The wave of arrests against opponents last week is the most recent in Nicaragua since the one carried out from the end of May to last October, and in which seven candidates for the Presidency were taken to jail by the opposition, as well as journalists, businessmen , independent professionals, former government officials, among others, almost all critical of Ortega.
The former Sandinista guerrilla won the Nicaraguan elections with 75.87% of the votes, corresponding to 65.26% of the 4.4 million Nicaraguans eligible to vote, according to figures from the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE).
Urnas Abierta reported that the “real” participation of the population was 18.5%.
Due to the imprisonment of opposition presidential candidates, the elimination of three opposition political parties, the repeal of electoral observation, and the lack of guarantees of “clean, fair and transparent” elections, the Nicaraguan dissidents and the majority of the international community they were unaware of that process.
The case of Nicaragua is analyzed at the 51st General Assembly of the OAS, which takes place in Guatemala. (I)
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