UNHCR calls for international support for Nicaraguans fleeing their country

Tuesday 31 In July, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) appreciated Costa Rica 's efforts to welcome the "thousands" of Nicaraguans fleeing their country and asked other members of the international community to take action. offer their support.

"We urge the international community to offer its support to this country (Costa Rica) and to others who welcome Nicaraguan refugees and asylum-seekers, in keeping with the spirit of solidarity and sharing of the Global Refugee Pact, the implementation of the Regional Integral Framework for Protection and Solutions (MIRPS) ", said William Spindler, spokesman for UNHCR, at a conference of press in Geneva.

As explained by Spindl Many Nicaraguans leave their country to go to Costa Rica, but there has also been an "exponential" increase in asylum applications in Panama, Mexico and the United States. United; while countries like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala become transit nations.

"At the moment, our efforts are concentrated in Costa Rica, which receives many more requests from Nicaraguans, but in other countries we follow. According to data from the Costa Rican authorities, there are already about 8 As many as 1,000 asylum applications have been submitted by Nicaraguans since the month in which the protests began (April) and some 15,000 people have already made an appointment.

According to UNHCR, Costa's migration processing capabilities Rica "are outnumbered" by the number of applications, so support is already being provided to increase processing capacity.

Currently, 200 asylum applications are registered every day in Costa Rica and the intention of the refugee agency is to increase this number to at least 500 per day.

#Nicaragua "UNHCR strengthens its presence on the northern border of Costa Rica and carefully observes the situation of the refs and asylum seekers deporting Nicaragua. " #SOSNicaragua #OrtegaEsSomoza #GobProvisionalYa #ConstituentYYa https://t.co/BYLCaaYaEG

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The situation does not only keep long lines in front of the facilities of the Directorate General of Immigration and Foreigners (DGME) , where many Polars expect to process their pbadports, but can even be seen at the headquarters of the Directorate General of Migration and Immigration in La Uruca (Costa Rica), where hundreds of people are waiting to Outside offices to separate one of the thousand files that are distributed each week.

Spindler attributes the increase in Nicaraguan asylum to terrible conidiciones in which his country is currently, and is that 100 days have already been filled with increasing political tensions in Nicaragua, where there have been serious human rights violations and not yet seen a prompt Lución

The repression by the shock forces of Daniel Ortega's regime, has already left more than 448 murdered, more than 2,000 wounded and hundreds of kidnapped and missing.

"It seems that everyone wants to go out of the country because of the situation it is in. It's a shame, is not it? (…) Unfortunately, the situation affects us all, "said Loyda Rugama, who is also trying to seek asylum, along with her two children, from the newspaper La Prensa