This Tuesday, the Government granted Spanish citizenship. Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli, The latest winner of the Reina Sofia Ibero-American Poetry Prize and twelve other exiles from this Central American country who were stripped of their citizenship by Daniel Ortega’s regime for criticizing him.
According to the information provided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, from his account on the social network X, the Council of Ministers approved the agreement at the meeting held today.
In the message he sent to 13 opponents, whose identities he revealed only in the case of the writer, Albares said, “Defenders of democracy and freedom have the support of Spain.”
75-year-old Belli, who lives in exile in Spain, One of more than 300 people whose citizenship Nicaraguan authorities have revoked almost a year ago “for treason”. After the measure was adopted by the Executive, the Secretary of State telephoned the author to inform him of the news.
government Pedro Sánchez Spanish citizenship was initially offered to 222 political prisoners deported in February last year By Nicaraguan officials, as announced by Ministry of Foreign Affairs sources.
Then, also in February, the Ortega regime, in power since 2007, declared 94 more Nicaraguans currently in exile “traitors to the country” and stripped them of their citizenship, among other sanctions.
Sources added that Spain has offered citizenship to both groups and that the majority of the more than 100 applications received have already been accepted.