They urge financial organizations and international cooperation mechanisms to condition loans on respect for human rights.
HAVANA TIMES – Organizations defending the rights of indigenous peoples in Nicaragua denounced the violence against the Mayangna and Miskitu peoples of the Northern Caribbean Region of Nicaragua, which has intensified since 2018 due to a process of “colonization” that, combined with the socio-political crisis facing the country, has brought the communities, in their own words, to the brink of an “ethnocide.”
The complaint was filed during a hearing in the 190th session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Thursday, July 11, 2024.
Exiled Nicaraguan Tininiska Rivera, daughter of the Miskitu indigenous political leader Brooklyn Rivera, said that the colonization process towards the indigenous peoples of the Northern Caribbean Coast continues to worsen, illustrated, she noted, by land dispossession and the imposition of parallel and allied indigenous authorities by the government.
The goal, Rivera indicated, is to nullify indigenous autonomy, facilitate resource control, and perpetuate state impunity.
She also asserted that the government led by Daniel Ortega has not complied with the cleaning of indigenous territories ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR Court), leaving about 304 communities vulnerable to invasions.
Meanwhile, Camila Ormar, a lawyer from t