The Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Arturo McFields Yescas, decided this Wednesday to stop “remaining silent” and attacked the dictatorship from Daniel Ortega in his country.
“I have to speak up even if I am afraid, even if my future and that of my family are uncertain. I have to speak because if I don’t, the stones themselves will speak for me », he declared during a telematic session of the organism.
McFields, appointed by Ortega as ambassador to the OAS in October of last year, said he was taking the floor “on behalf of more than 177 political prisoners and more than 350 people who have lost their lives” in Nicaragua since 2018.
“Denouncing the dictatorship of my country is not easy, but continuing to remain silent and defending the indefensible is impossible,” the ambassador continued.
McFields revealed that last November, days before Nicaragua announced its departure from the OAS, he asked the Foreign Ministry to release 20 elderly imprisoned opponents and another 20 with a delicate state of health, but they ignored him.
“In the government nobody listens and nobody speaks, I tried several times for several months but all the doors were closed to me,” he said.
The diplomat regretted that in his country “there is no freedom to publish a simple tweet” and criticized that there are no human rights organizations.
However, he believed that “there is hope” because, as he said, “people inside the government and outside are tired of the dictatorship.”
“There will be more and more people who say enough is enough, because the light is always stronger than the darkness,” he said.
Ortega began his fifth term on January 10, the second together with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, following elections marked by the imprisonment of opponents, and with new sanctions from the US and the European Union once morest relatives and relatives of the president. .
