Nicaraguans released and expelled to the US suffer emotional consequences

San José, Feb 11 (EFE).- The non-governmental Permanent Commission on Human Rights (CPDH) reported this Saturday that it is looking for a home in the United States for some 100 of the 222 Nicaraguans released and expelled from Nicaragua last Thursday.

This hundred people will have to leave this Sunday the hotel in Virginia where they are housed on behalf of the US Government.

“We have made a call to the good-hearted Nicaraguan community, if they might accommodate some Nicaraguans while they get their work permit, which we understand will be a very agile and fast process,” the executive secretary of the CPDH told EFE. Marcos Carmona.

“There are more than 100 Nicaraguans who did not have a room, a house, a roof, but we have spoken with some compatriots and we have managed to locate a good part,” added Carmona.

The Government of Nicaragua surprisingly released 222 people considered “political prisoners” early Thursday morning and sent them on a plane to the United States, while stripping them of their citizenship on the grounds that they committed “treason once morest the homeland.” .

Those released have affirmed that they did not know their destination until they landed in Washington, following which the United States government paid them three days in a hotel and promised a legal stay for at least two years, but dozens of them do not have relatives who receive them.

“We make the call for the housing part, also to those people who can contribute with food, clothing, we are locating many of them in Miami, Georgia, California, we have had good-hearted people, in addition to a roof they are giving them a means of subsistence in terms of guaranteeing a job,” said Carmona.

In the first two days, the CPDH, in coordination with the Nicaraguan diaspora, located 15 of those expelled in Atlanta, 12 in Washington, and 6 in North Carolina, the defender explained during a telephone conversation with EFE.

Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which has worsened following the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth in a row and second together with his wife, Rosario Murillo. , as vice president, with her main contenders in prison or in exile.

More than 300,000 Nicaraguans have decided to leave their country in the midst of the crisis, mainly to destinations such as Costa Rica, the United States and Spain.

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