Santo Domingo (EFE).- The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, denounced before the plenary session of the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit, which is being held in Santo Domingo, the “dictatorship” of the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega; and his vice president and wife, Rosario Murillo.
In his speech, Boric referred to the withdrawal of Nicaraguan nationality from dozens of Ortega’s opponents “who seem not to know that the homeland is carried in their soul and blood and is not removed by decree.”
The Chilean president specifically mentioned the cases of the writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli and the historic ex-guerrilla Dora María Téllez.
“Today we see in the whole world risks and threats that threaten democracy that have cost democracy so much and in the face of this we must respond with more democracy, not with less,” he said.
The Chilean president referred to common issues in the region such as migration, drug trafficking, the environment, gender equality and the regularization of financial capitalism.
“Along with these enormous challenges, we must jointly address the urgency that our peoples are complaining about” including security and the migratory phenomenon in the region, and recalled the Plenary Meeting of the XX South American Conference on Migration in Santiago, Chile, to be held in next october.
The issue of migration “constitutes perhaps one of the biggest regional challenges”, so it must be addressed jointly.
“We have to be able, among all of us, to achieve a safe, regular, orderly and humane migration, which safeguards the rights of the people who emigrate and also the rights and security of the countries that receive them.”
He also called to “protect and strengthen” the Ibero-American Community, whose member countries highlighted solidarity.