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Geneva (AFP)
An important Nicaraguan human rights defender said on Thursday that it was impossible to negotiate with President Daniel Ortega after the end of the deadline set in talks aimed at resolving the country's deadly political crisis.
Negotiations that lasted months between the Ortega government and the opposition set Wednesday the deadline to advance several key issues.
This has happened without any progress being made, but the negotiations could still continue.
Speaking at the United Nations in Geneva, the head of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, Vilma Nunez (CENIDH), said that she had "no confidence" in Ortega for accept any type of agreement.
"It's not possible to negotiate with him," she told reporters, calling some of her positions "joke."
The opposition blamed the government's lack of political will to stalemate. Ortega cited the "extremist" positions of his opponents.
One of the main stumbling blocks is the fate of people who participated in violent anti-government protests, many of whom are under arrest.
Nunez, whose organization was blacklisted by the government, said that one of the most thorny problems was to agree on the number of people detained.
The opposition counts the number of people above 800, while the government counted 290, according to Nunez.
As part of its efforts to break the stalemate, Nunez said the International Committee of the Red Cross was establishing its own list of detainees, which she planned to submit to the government.
The ICRC did not immediately respond when asked to confirm this information.
Last month, Ortega had agreed to release all opposition prisoners within 90 days, but the opposition said the detentions were continuing.
Nunez was in Geneva to take part in an event at the UN on human rights violations in Nicaragua, which was sponsored by the United States, a firm opponent of the Ortega government.
A year of political upheaval has caused hundreds of deaths in this Central American country.
? AFP 2019
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