Daniel Ortega mocks the Nicaraguan opposition welcomed by Spain: "They must now speak like Spaniards"

MADRID, 22 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, mocked this Wednesday the Nicaraguans whose nationality was withdrawn and who have obtained the Spanish one after the offer from the Spanish Government, as he stated that "they must now speak like Spaniards."

"Others are in Spain, they feel Spanish, very happy to be Spanish, they must already speak like Spaniards," he declared, imitating the Spanish accent during the event for the 90th anniversary of the murder of the guerrilla Augusto Sandino, after whom the party is named. official party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).

Before this mockery, Ortega, who had not made a public appearance for a month and a half, paraphrased a manifesto written by Sandino in 1927 that pointed out how there were Nicaraguans who were in the United States and "now they are Yankees, they must feel very happy to be Yankees."

In this sense, he stressed that "they stopped being Nicaraguans because ambition killed the right of their nationality." "That's how it is, it's an elementary principle, he who betrays his country stops being from that country, he stops having a country and that's why he calls himself stateless," he commented.

In February 2023, Ortega banished and denationalized a group of 222 political prisoners, which he sent to the United States, and days later he did the same with 94 opponents, most of them in exile, whom he accused of being "traitors to the country." among whom was the writer Sergio Ramírez, former vice president of Nicaragua and resident in Spain.

According to diplomatic sources, in total the Spanish Government has received more than 100 applications to receive Spanish nationality from the more than 300 Nicaraguans made stateless by the Ortega regime and "the majority have already been granted."