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Twenty former governors who are part of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) criticize the attitude of the Vatican and the new Spanish government towards the "atrocities" committed by the " dictatorial governments "in Nicaragua and Venezuela.
In a statement signed by, among others, Spanish President José María Aznar, IDEA denounces "the serious, systematic and widespread violations of human rights suffered by the peoples of Nicaragua and Venezuela".
The signatories of IDEA, in their statement, support the statements of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the European Parliament, the Group of Lima and the Bishops' Conferences of Nicaragua and Venezuela denouncing and condemning their trials are "crimes of international importance".
Rather, they express their "concern for silence, jealous cautiousness, or the turn of behavior of some fundamental actors in the world opinion, such as the Vatican State and now the government of Spain, in the face of atrocities committed in Latin America by overtly dictatorial governments. "
In recent weeks, the Vatican and the Spanish government have launched a call for dialogue in Nicaragua to try to escape of the conflict, in which the Nicaraguan Church attempted to act as a mediator, although it was sometimes the victim of attacks from "paramilitary groups that sow terror and violence" ", according to the Vatican denounced at the time
Today, the Spanish government advises against going to Nicaragua because the country is" almost in civil war ", as the Minister Foreign Affairs
IDEA stresses that "no government" can invoke "sovereignty and non-intervention" to violate human rights and prevent their international protection, as these rights are "limits to power of the state ".
The signing of various institutions that the former signatories of this declaration support, it is that the Government of Nicaragua accepts an electoral calendar that "democratically regulates the situation and contributes to peace" in the country, where more than 350 people have died in recent months. protests against the government of Daniel Ortega
They also echo the "urgent need to establish a humanitarian chain that saves the Venezuelan people from its tragedy."
The former Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños and Costa Ricans Óscar Arias signed the declaration, Rafael Ángel Calderón, Laura Chinchila, José María Figueres and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
Nicolás Ardito Barletta and Mireya Moscoso (Panama), Belisario Betancur, Álvaro Uribe and Andrés Pastrana (Colombia) , Alfredo Cristiani (El Salvador), Fernando de la Rúa (Argentina), Vicente Fox (Mexico), Luis Alberto Lacalle (Uruguay), Jorge Tuto Quiroga (Bolivia)), Juan Carlos Wasmossy (Paraguay), Osvaldo Hurtado and Jamil Mahuad (Ecuador ), and Eduardo Frei (Chile).
In addition to designing programs and activities that promote or strengthen democracy, IDEA issues statements on important or topical issues with the support of former leaders of Spain and the United States. Latin America, mostly conservative, but also subscribed by socialists like the Spanish Felipe González and the Chilean Ricardo Lagos or centrists like the Uruguayan Julio María Sanguinetti.
Document:
DECLARATION ON NICARAGUA AND VENEZUELA
Former Heads of State and Government Participating in the Democratic Initiative of the 39, Spain and the Americas (IDEA),
Considering the serious, systematic and widespread violations of human rights suffered by the peoples of Nicaragua and Venezuela, to the point of constituting them under their respective governments, in crimes of international transcendence that offend the human race, and corroborated, respectively, by the Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Serious Violations of Human Rights in Human Rights. the context of social protests in Nicaragua and the report of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States and International experts on the possible commission of crimes against humanity in Venezuela, recently adopted;
We Declare:
(1) We support the resolution of the OAS Permanent Council of July 18 condemning, "all acts of violence, repression , human rights violations and abuses, including those committed by the police, self-defense groups and other actors against the people of Nicaragua, "attacks on the clergy, harassment of Catholic bishops participating in the national dialogue ", and his government, to this end, accepts an electoral calendar which democratically resolves this situation and contributes to peace.
(2) We adhere to the condemnation just as, the the previous day, the Lima Group made "the rupture of the constitutional order and the rule of law in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, reflected in the loss of democratic institutions and the absence of guarantees and the political freedoms for all the s at its request concerning the urgent need to establish a humanitarian chain that will save the Venezuelan people from its tragedy; echoing your warning for the military mobilization deployed by the government of this nation on its borders with Colombia.
(3) We note that the Governments of Nicaragua and Venezuela, as well as to vote against the resolution adopted by the OAS, quoted above, from the San Pablo Forum, held in the city of La Havana, Cuba, both claim to be victims of the violation of the principle of non-interference in their internal affairs by those who denounce their grave violations of human rights. We therefore categorically assert that since human rights are limits to the power of each state, no government can invoke sovereignty and non-intervention to violate them or prevent their international protection.
(4) We welcome the strong position of the majority of OAS members and of its Secretary General, the European Parliament and human rights institutions. , especially the Episcopal Conferences of Nicaragua and Venezuela for the defense of democratic heritage. freedoms, even while being aware of their relative effectiveness. And we express our concern for the silence, the jealous caution, or the turn of behavior of some key players in the world opinion, such as the Vatican State and now the Government of Spain, before the atrocities committed in Latin America by governments. openly dictatorial.
Oscar Arias, Costa Rica José María Aznar, Spain Nicolás Ardito Barletta, Panama Belisario Betancur, Colombia Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua Felipe Calderón, Mexico Rafael Ángel Calderón, Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rica Alfredo Cristiani, Salvador Fernando de la Rua, Argentina José María Figueres, Costa Rica Vicente Fox, Mexico Eduardo Frei, Chile Osvaldo Hurtado, Ecuador Luis Alberto Lacalle, Uruguay Jamil Mahuad, Ecuador Mireya Moscoso, Panama Andrés Pastrana, Colombia Jorge Tuto Quiroga, Bolivia Juan Carlos Wasmosy, Paraguay
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