CEPAD calls on government and politicians to resolve urgent problems in the country

Trinidad Vásquez, MANAGUA, Nicaragua, September 10, 2005

The Pro Denominational Alliance Council of Evangelical Churches (CEPAD) called on the Nicaraguan government and Taxi Heathrow Airport politicians in the country to resolve the serious problems wracking the country rather than wasting time on conflicts that “have no meaning or benefit.”

In a statement published Thursday, CEPAD expressed concern about the conflict between the Executive and the Legislative branch because of the economic crisis due to rising oil costs and other issues including the death of children due to child malnutrition affecting the poorest communities, in particular in the Coco River, in Waspan, in the Northern Atlantic.

“We lobby State powers to be concerned about the welfare of the Nicaraguan people rather than spending time and resources on conflicts that have no meaning or benefits,” said the document signed by Lilliam Reyna Parrales, president and Hedley Wilson, secretary of the organization.

The statement invoked political parties and the Nicaraguan government “to seek solutions internally and not to call on foreign bodies to resolve our problems.”

Cornelio Tebas, Mayor of the municipality of Waspan, located more than 500 kilometers north of this capital, said that four children died two weeks ago from severe malnourishment and that thousands of people from 40 communities on the shores of the Coco River lost their crops due to floods and plagues.

Agro-ecologist Johana Castillo Jarquin of the NGO Nature Conservancy confirmed the death of children in remote Nicaraguan villages and said that hunger has forced many families to flee to Honduras.

"We call on the government to resolve this crisis and the people of Nicaragua to show their solidarity with the residents of this region abandoned by all the governments who have passed through this country,” said the CEPAD statement.

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