Quito (EFE).- The writer Sergio Ramírez, whose Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government withdrew his Nicaraguan nationality last week along with almost 100 other people, agreed to receive Ecuadorian nationality, as announced this Friday by the Presidency of Ecuador .
In a statement, the President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, assured that Ramírez “is an eminent writer, as well as a man who has shown with his life that the fight for democracy and human rights is essential to our destiny in Latin America. ”.
In previous days, Ramírez had also received other offers from Latin American governments to adopt their respective nationalities, as was the case of Spain, Chile and Colombia.
The ceremony for the delivery of Ecuadorian nationality to Ramírez will take place on a date close to being agreed, the statement detailed.
With this action, Lasso assured that “Ecuador thus recognizes its fight for freedom, which is the fight of every Latin American who loves his people”, which he transferred to Ramírez in a telephone conversation.
A weighty figure in Nicaragua
Winner of prestigious literary prizes such as the Alfaguara and the Cervantes during his career as a writer, Ramírez also has an extensive political career in his native Nicaragua, where he became vice president of the country during the first presidential term of Daniel Ortega (1985-1990).
He was part of the Junta del Gobierno de Reconstrucción Nacional after the triumph of the Sandinista revolution against the dictatorship of Anastasio Sornoza (1979), he headed the bench of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) and became a candidate in 1996 for the Presidency for the Sandinista Renewal Movement, a splinter of the FLSN.
Since the 2018 protests, he has been in the crosshairs of the Ortega government along with other opponents.
In September 2021, an arrest warrant was issued against Ramírez while he was in Spain and during this month he was included among the 94 people whose Nicaraguan nationality was revoked by a court, along with fellow writer Gioconda Belli and Bishop Silvio Báez. .
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018 that has worsened after 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.