Weekly Report - 09 March 2023 (WR-23-10)

Quotes of the week

“All of Nicaragua is a crime scene.” 

Jan-Michael Simon, the chair of the three-member panel of human rights experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) appointed by the United Nations, in an interview with local investigative media Confidencial.

“It is a shameful report...lacking legal and binding validity…Once again [the national assembly] has failed the country.”

Ecuador’s government minister Henry Cucalón on a report approved by the national assembly recommending opening an impeachment process against President Guillermo Lasso, accusing him of corruption.

“Today the armed forces co-governs with [President Andrés Manuel] López Obrador.”

Mexican independent senator Emilio Alvarez, former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.