THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA
To its inhabitants, it makes known:
That,
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA
Have ordered the following:
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA
In use of its powers,
HAS DICTATED
The folowing:
LAW No. 1055
LAW FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS TO INDEPENDENCE,
SOVEREIGNTY AND SELF-DETERMINATION FOR PEACE
Article 1 Defense of the rights of the people
Nicaraguans who lead or finance a coup d'état, who alter the constitutional order, who encourage or urge terrorist acts, who carry out acts that undermine independence, sovereignty, and self-determination, who incite foreign interference in internal affairs, who ask for military interventions, who organize with the financing of foreign powers in order to carry out acts of terrorism and destabilization, who propose and manage economic, commercial and financial operations blockades against the country and its institutions, those who demand, exalt and applaud the imposition of sanctions against the State of Nicaragua and its citizens, and all those who harm the supreme interests of the nation contemplated in the legal system, will be "Traitors to the Motherland"; therefore, they will not be able to run for popularly elected positions, this without prejudice to the corresponding criminal actions established in the Penal Code of the Republic of Nicaragua for “Acts of Treason”, “Crimes that compromise Peace” and “Crimes against the Political Constitution of the Republic of Nicaragua”.
Article 2 Publication and validity
This Law shall enter into force as of its publication in La Gaceta, Official Gazette.
Given in the Hall of Sessions of the National Assembly, in the city of Managua on the twenty-first day of the month of December of the year two thousand and twenty.
M.P. Loria Raquel Dixon Brautigam
First Secretary of the
National Assembly