Security & Strategic Review - November 2024

NICARAGUA: Spain offers citizenship to Nicaraguans stripped of nationality

CENTRAL AMERICA by Abbi Dicker 01 November 2024 Modified: 18 November 2024 1506 views

On 4 October Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, confirmed that Spain had offered nationality to 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners taken from a prison in Managua the previous month and flown to Guatemala where they were welcomed by Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo and Eric Jacobstein (a top US State Department Western Hemisphere Affairs diplomat). As with political prisoners previously expelled from Nicaragua, they have all been stripped of their citizenship.

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