09/09/2024 (Agence Europe) – The European Union expressed its “satisfaction and relief” at the release of 135 Guatemalan political prisoners and their transfer to Guatemala, in a statement issued on Friday 6 September by the spokesman for the European External Action Service (EEAS). Among those freed thanks to the American authorities’ efforts are students, Catholics and 13 members of a Christian missionary organisation from Texas, Mountain Gateway, who will be able to return to the United States. This release should be followed by other similar initiatives, said the spokesman, reiterating the EU’s call to the Ortega regime to restore “fundamental freedoms” in Nicaragua. (MB)