BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s leftist government, which has been reluctant to criticize Nicaragua’s authoritarian President Daniel Ortega, will for the first time on Tuesday express concern over the persecution of opponents in his country, two sources said.
The concern will be presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the sources who helped prepare the document told Reuters on Monday.
Brazil was criticized on Friday for not joining a declaration signed by 55 countries that sharply criticized Ortega and for not even speaking out during the council meeting.
Brazilian diplomats took part in the negotiation of the declaration criticizing Nicaragua, but chose not to endorse it because it did not leave a door open for negotiations.
The alternative text, which will be presented by Brazil’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Tovar Nunes, will say that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government…
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