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EL NUEVO DIARIO, Thursday, August 9, 2001
They cancel her residency
TERROR AGAINST DOROTHY RETURNS
*Marenco Cardenal makes a show of meanness and vengefulness against the
North American nurse
By order of the Minister of Internal Affairs (Gobernación), the residency
permit of the North American nurse Dorothy Granada was de facto suspended
this Tuesday, and she was verbally notified of this in the Office for
Foreigners (Extranjería) while she was transacting the renewal of her
residency.
This was denounced yesterday by the president of the Human Rights
commission of the National Assembly, Doctor Nelson Artola, who said that
the North American met with the chief of the Office for Foreigners, and he
told her: "Señora, you cannot take any actions here because your residency
has already been canceled and I have higher orders not to transact anything
in that respect."
The North American nurse was surprised at the treatment she was receiving
and upon asking the official where was the resolution canceling her
residency, he limited himself to saying that it was an order from the
Minister of Internal Affairs, José Marenco Cardenal.
Artola said that the North American was told that Marenco Cardenal had
ordered the supposed resolution to be published in the official journal La
Gaceta, "and we, along with the personal adviser of the parliamentary
commission, have been searching that Gaceta in order to have knowledge of
this case, and we have not been able to find it."
The legislator said that "everything done presumes once again a political
attack and a revenge announced to affect Dorothy."
Artola emphasized that the expiration of the North American's residency is
September 9 and they were pressured so much that they did not wait for this
date to inform her of the resolution, that is "that they accelerated the
cancellation of her residency, which is a flagrant violation of a human
right of this nurse and religious person."
"The most lamentable aspect of this case, Dorothy told me very sadly, is
that 'I have not harmed anyone, I have not harmed señor José Marenco
Cardenal, I have not harmed the President of the Republic or any official
of this government and I don't know from where this hatred comes.'"
The North American also said to the president of the parliamentary
commission, with whom she met yesterday, "what I have done is to serve
30,000 campesinos from Mulukukú with medical assistance during the 13 years
that I have worked in Nicaragua."
"My crime has been to combat malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhea, and
malnutrition from which the campesinos of Mulukukú suffer, and they are not
treated in any way on the part of the government."
COMMISSION PREPARES COMPLAINT
Yesterday the same Human Rights commission of the National Assembly began
to prepare a complaint denouncing this abuse of the human rights "of a
person who has sufficient merits that the National Assembly in accord with
the Constitution should be honorably awarding her Nicaraguan nationality
and not treating her like a common criminal."
This past July 16, Artola presented in the First Secretariat of Parliament
a bill consisting of three articles based in the Political Constitution,
which would give the National Assembly the powers "where I request that the
National Assembly award Nicaraguan nationality to Dorothy Granada for her
work in benefit of Nicaragua."
Artola announced that the commission is proceeding to elaborate a complaint
to send to the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights, attached to the
Organization of American States (OAS) "where we will ask for a
corresponding resolution en relation to this violation of the human right
that Dorothy has to reside in Nicaragua."
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