Letter to Argentine lawyer Dario Richarte

Dr. Dario Richarte
His hands:

Please receive from the Concertación Democrática Nicaragüense (CDN) our warmest greetings.

In the framework of the criminal proceedings brought against Daniel Ortega, Rosario Murillo and other officials for the commission of crimes against humanity, we have learned that you and other lawyers have requested that the accused be summoned for questioning and that an international arrest warrant be issued for their arrest and capture.

We would like to express our gratitude, as we did at the meeting we held in Buenos Aires last July, for exercising this criminal claim against the perpetrators of human rights violations against the Nicaraguan people, since this action activates the jurisdictional mechanisms of accountability to respond to the crisis that Nicaragua has been experiencing for the past six years.

We trust in the observance by the nation’s judiciary of the provisions of the domestic procedural legal system and the international commitments signed by the Argentine State in the framework of the protection and enforcement of human rights, contained in the American Convention on Human Rights, on the basis of which the issuance of the international arrest warrant against Ortega, Murillo and other defendants is requested. If this is achieved, the Nicaraguan case would constitute a valuable precedent to preserve justice as a universal good.

We reiterate our willingness to collaborate in all that is necessary for the proper conduct of the legal actions promoted with your procedural sponsorship, taking advantage of our communication with victims’ groups, and our ability to collect documentation and evidence that is necessary, useful and relevant to the case.

Without further reference, we send you our best regards.