Ortega supporters threatened, while protesters arrested, flee to Nicaragua | Political News

For the second time in two years, one of Nicaragua’s most prominent journalists, Carlos Fernando Chamorro – a former ally of President Daniel Ortega – has been exiled. The superintendent of the Confidential House of Representatives managed to get out just before being arrested at his home by several special police officers on Monday night.

Even his sister, Christian Chamorro, or his cousin, Juan Chamorro, he was lucky. The leaders are two out of five aspiring presidents who were arrested ahead of the November elections. The split also includes 12 other opponents of President Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, who is also the Vice President.

Many have been detained at El Chipote Prison in Managua – many disenfranchised – under the new Protection of Civil Liberties, Independence and Independence Under the Peace Law. They can be stored for up to 90 days. In the case of arrogant people Vice President, which makes them unfit to run.

“The process is tedious for the people of Nicaragua, giving a re-run of the election until the majority reject it because there is no opposition. That is Ortega’s goal. Al Jazeera.

Aleman is a university student leader who helped spark a riot against President Ortega in April, 2018. Hundreds of people were killed by police and army forces in clashes that lasted several weeks. Hundreds more were arrested. More than 107,000 of Nicaragua he fled the country, most in neighboring Costa Rica. Apparently things had settled down “back to normal”.

But three weeks ago, a new beating against opponents has begun, and in the last few days it has increased dramatically.

Vice President Rosario Murillo calls it “justice too late”, accusing opponents of imprisonment of conspiring with foreign powers to undermine the country’s interests.

He did not provide any evidence.

“They have been turned into hypocrites, into good soldiers, paid to sow death, destruction and hatred,” Murillo said on radio and television earlier this week.

William Grigsby is a colleague of Murillo’s well-known government spokesman.

“Surgery is just beginning. There will be others (arrested). The law is for anyone who can donate to the nation, which is a crime, “Grigsby said in his radio program Without Frontiers, shortly before the arrest of two other Ortega fighters on Monday.

Juan Sebastian Chamorro, an opposition member of the Civic Alliance, was the fifth opposition president arrested by the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega [Fiel: Inti Ocon/AFP]

Although Disagree “savings and prominent business leaders are being arrested. For those who still remember Sandinista Revolution which overthrew the former Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua and brought Daniel Ortega to power for the first time in 1979, another arrest is surprising.

Over the weekend, Hugo Torres, a retired Sandinista official who rescued Ortega from prison in the 1970s and raped her until the 1990s, was arrested. Hours ago, the same terrorist general of Sandinista Dora Maria Tellez, and ancient Sandinista Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco. He is part of a Nicaraguan revolutionary movement that split from Ortega in the 1990’s and formed an opposition party, Unamos. He accuses his former colleague of being a dictator and of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN).

The arrests are a message from Ortega: no one is allowed, regardless of their status.

The seizure is done fear an international group

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has released a new report describing “the catastrophic and devastating effects of human rights abuses. It is unlikely that Nicaraguans will be able to exercise their rights in the November 7 elections.”

Mr Bachelet claims that the law governing arrest warrants “is used to harass protesters”.

In the past, Human Rights Watch released a report describing what it called “violation of human rights and politics” for many critics.

“Increasing oppression in Nicaragua is reaching unprecedented levels in recent Latin American history. It is important that the international community and the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, take action, ”HRW America President Jose Miguel Vivanco told Al Jazeera.

Human Rights Watch requests that the Secretary-General adopt Article 99 of the UN Charter. It gives him the opportunity to review the Security Council with any threat to international peace and security. In this regard, Vivanco points out that a new and major crisis for migrants in Nicaragua could threaten Central America, which is already plagued by illegal immigration and violent crime.

A few hours later, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the Nicaraguan Reconstruction of the Electoral System (RENACER) Act. It strives to innovate sanctions on the Nicaraguan government in cooperation with the European Union and Canada.

It is unclear whether the funds could be used if they were donated by the US Congress. Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Central America and its economy depends largely on trade with the United States. Nicaragua is part of the USCentral American Trade Agreement. So far Washington has refused to do so against the Ortega government, which has criticized its allies Cuba and Venezuela.

“It seems that the US does not want to start things in Nicaragua, which will not cause them problems like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, even though things are bad in our country. They are afraid to go out and so on. do not move unnecessarily, “Carlos Fernando Chamorro told Jazeera.

But some are concerned that if peaceful, transparent and impartial elections were canceled in November, there could be more bloodshed.

“People are no longer visiting the streets, because public demonstrations should be punished. A public explosion requires an explosive, and the result could be a decision of November 7. If there is deception, I can’t imagine the anger it could bring. We don’t want to see this, ”says Aleman, carefully selecting his words.

As a response to this, Ortega’s colleague William Grigsby issued this warning: “The Sandinista Front has not resisted the war effort. Let it be clear. We reformers have made the decision to protect our rights and our weapons, blood and lives.”