Colombia's leftist government on Thursday blasted Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's expulsion of hundreds of prominent critics earlier this month and called for international monitoring and a criminal inquiry, according to a statement by the Colombian foreign ministry.
The criticism by the government of Colombian President Gustavo Petro is the latest from the region's mostly leftist governments, after Chile slammed the ejection of more than 200 political prisoners to the United States that Ortega has called criminal mercenaries.
