Q24N (EFE) Nicaraguan authorities have so far deprived 452 Nicaraguans of their nationality and their property in the last two years, with the deportation of 135 political prisoners, who were released and expelled to Guatemala, last Thursday, September 5.
The Managua Court of Appeals issued a resolution in which it ordered “the loss of Nicaraguan nationality to 135 people convicted of criminal acts that attacked the sovereignty, independence and self-determination of the Nicaraguan people, inciting and promoting violence, hatred, terrorism and economic destabilization, altering peace, security and the constitutional order.”
Among those released from prison, exiled to Guatemala, and now declared stateless are the visual artists Kevin Laguna and Oscar Danilo Parrilla, whose artistic names are Vink Art and Torch Místico, who were arrested in November 2023 when they were painting an artistic mural in honor of the then newly crowned Miss Universe 2023, the Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios.
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Also the content creator on the social network TikTok and Sandinista sympathizer, Crstóbal Geovany López, known as Tropi Gamer, who was imprisoned, according to what authorities told him, because “he had committed the crime of supporting Miss Universe Sheynnis Palacios.”
Also, the philosopher, sociologist and professor Freddy Quezada, very critical of the Government of Daniel Ortega, who was arrested on November 29, 2023, according to what he said after his release, for having given ‘like’ to a publication in X about the expected return to Nicaragua of the beauty queen.
The Ortega regime launched its own beauty pageant on April 26 after accusing the representation of Miss Universe in the country of the crimes of conspiracy and treason and banishing its former director.
The director of the Miss Universe franchise in Nicaragua, Karen Celebertti, left the organization in December after the police arrested her husband and one of her sons and charged them with the crimes of conspiracy and treason, two weeks after Palacios was elected Miss Universe 2023 and the population celebrated spontaneously and massively in the streets of the country, despite an official ban on demonstrating in public.
According to the police, which has not offered evidence, the now former director of Miss Nicaragua and her family had planned to take to the streets “again” in December 2023, as part of the population did in April 2018 when anti-government demonstrations broke out.
Others of those denationalized are the journalist Víctor Ticay, a collaborator of Channel 10 of Nicaraguan television; the former opposition prisoner Olesia Muñoz, the student leader Jasson Salazar; the former police officer Fanor Ramos, 13 people who belong to the evangelical organization Puerta de la Montaña Ministry of Nicaragua, for whom Washington advocated for their release; among others.
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These 135 stateless people join the 317 Nicaraguans, including the writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli, the bishops Rolando Álvarez and Silvio Báez, whose nationality was revoked by the authorities in February 2023.
Others deprived of their nationality in February of last year were the former commander of the revolution Luis Carrión, the legendary ex-guerrilla Dora María Téllez, the veteran human rights defender Vilma Núñez, the journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro and his sister, a presidential candidate in the 2021 elections, Cristiana Chamorro, both children of former Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro (1990-1997), among others, all very critical of Ortega and his wife and vice-president Rosario Murillo.
Nicaragua has been experiencing a political and social crisis since April 2018, which worsened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth and fourth consecutive term, with his main contenders in prison and whom he later expelled from the country, depriving them of their nationality and political rights after accusing them of “treason.”
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