Besides the writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli, and Bishop Silvio Báez, the other Nicaraguans deprived of their nationality are the former commander of the revolution Luis Carrión, the veteran human rights defender Vilma Núñez, the former foreign minister Norman Caldera, the former Sandinista magistrate Rafael Solis.
Also former Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS Arturo McFields, former vice chancellor Salvador Stadthagen, academic Ernesto Medina, former education minister Humberto Belli, researcher Elvira Cuadra, opponents Kitty Monterrey, Eliseo Núñez, Enrique Saenz and Edipsia Dubon.
In addition, journalists Carlos Fernando Chamorro, Sofía Montenegro, Luis Manuel Chavarría Galeano, Jennyfer Ortiz, Lucía Pineda Ubau, Patricia Orozco, Camilo de Castro and the correspondent of the Spanish newspaper El País Wilfredo Miranda.
The list includes two former aides of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega: Julio Lopez and Monica Baltodano; human rights defenders, priests, environmentalists, Sandinista dissidents, students, business people, merchants, among others.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, exacerbated by the controversial general election of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected to a fifth term, fourth in a row and second jointly with his wife, Rosario Murillo. , as vice president, with her main contenders in prison or exile
Source: El heraldo
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