‘No One Is Safe in Nicaragua’ (OPINION)
Latino RebelsMar 03, 2023
On Tuesday, Amnesty International released a report alleging that the government of Nicaragua, led by Pres. Daniel Ortega, is consistently engaging in acts of repression and human rights violations.
The report claims that the government, which pushed through reforms to its social security system in 2018, has deployed arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial executions, and arbitrary deprivation of nationality, amongst other tactics against dissidents.
There is a continued, systematic persecution of anyone who attempts to criticize the Nicaraguan government. Many of those who have fled were lucky to have any form of travel documentation intact, while others continue to be subjected to human rights horrors. The law no longer exists in Nicaragua, as the state continues to create a regime reminiscent of an Orwellian "Nineteen Eighty-four."
The West is only interested in human rights in Global South countries that don't bend to its will. To this day, Washington hasn't forgiven Nicaragua for being the first Latin American country to free itself from US hegemony through the Sandinista Revolution. It's purely geostrategic interests that prompt Washington and the EU to demand so-called "democracy" for Nicaragua.