Dissidents from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua have increasingly found refuge in Madrid, which is now called the “new Miami”, in recent years. Spain offered citizenship to many of them.
Madrid has decided to offer Spanish citizenship to the more than 200 political prisoners released by the Nicaraguan authorities and deported to the US, the Spanish Foreign Minister announced yesterday Friday.
“The government is offering Spanish citizenship to the 222 prisoners who were released” after reports that “a procedure was initiated to declare them stateless” by the authorities in Managua, Jose Manuel Alvarez told Servimedia, which his services confirmed to AFP.
The socialist minister clarified that the Spanish authorities will contact them.
Dissidents from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua have increasingly found refuge in Madrid, which is now called the “new Miami”, in recent years. Spain offered citizenship to many of them.
After a warrant for his arrest was issued by the authorities of his country, the Nicaraguan writer Sergio RamÃrez fled to Madrid in 2021.
Daniel Ortega’s government on Thursday released 222 prisoners, including two French women and an American, an unexpected gesture that could lead to a resumption of dialogue between Managua and Washington. Already, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had a telephone conversation with his Nicaraguan counterpart Dennis Moncada, the State Department announced yesterday.
The development was recorded after months of talks, which were conducted very discreetly; it was not made public until after the group was already on its way to the US territory.
Their nationality is expected to be taken away soon, under a law that was adopted in first reading on Thursday by the parliament and there is practically no doubt that it will be approved.
US diplomacy praised the “positive” decision taken by Managua, insisting that it was taken “unilaterally” by the Ortega government, without any promise of an easing of sanctions against it.
For its part, the EU yesterday expressed its “satisfaction and relief” after the release of the political prisoners, three of whom are European citizens.
“The EU has not stopped asking, by all available means, for their release” and “they should not have spent a single day in prison,” Peter Stano, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Giuseppe Borrell, said in a press release. made public.
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