Criticism against Daniel Ortega’s regime in Nicaragua increases for the arrest of the opposition Cristiana Chamorro

Various governments and organizations around the world have demanded the release of Cristiana Chamorro, the main opponent of the regime Daniel ortega at Nicaragua What was arrested on wednesday after a Managua court issued a search and arrest warrant accusing him of “abusive management, ideological lie in real competition with the crime of money, property and asset laundering”.

Faced with Chamorro’s house arrest, which prevents him from standing in the legislative elections of his country for which he is favorite according to the polls, “France strongly condemns the measures incompatible with a free, sincere and transparent electoral process”, indicated an official note issued this Friday by Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Emmanuel Macron.

The text adds that France “demands the immediate release of Cristiana Chamorro” and the restitution of her civil rights. “These decisions are part of a degraded climate after various measures taken since the end of 2020” against political plurality and press freedom in this Central American country, according to the press release.

For its part, the Spanish government expressed its “to worry“For the arrest and disqualification of Chamorro for the November presidential elections and also expressed concern about the”continued harassment of journalists and independent media“In the country of Central America.

In a statement from the Foreign Ministry, the Spanish executive said that “serious events and the current political dynamic reduce the spaces for dialogue and coexistence in Nicaragua and jeopardize the democratic legitimacy of legislative elections”.

Therefore, he considered that these measures “They must be reversed, immediately ending the detention of Ms. Chamorro and the evacuation of her home, as well as guaranteeing the free exercise of fundamental rights for all citizens and social and political actors.”.

On another side, the Hemispheric Front for Freedom (FHL), made up of politicians, non-governmental organizations, former diplomats and academics from 15 countries, She also added this Friday to the international condemnation for house arrest and disqualification from public office of the Nicaraguan opposition.

The FHL has made a called “urgent” to all democratic forces on the continent to repudiate “this crude and arbitrary political manipulation” with which the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, “seeks to extend his already long stay in power.

This organization pointed out that “repressive e disrespectful“The action of the Ortega regime wants to prevent the opposition from running for the next presidential elections in this Central American country.

Nicaragua “calls for solidarity support and international pressure to help it organize free and democratic elections”, underlined the FHL, a group which was created this year during a meeting in Miami (USA) “alert and educate the peoples of Latin America who risk losing their freedoms and democracy”. The organization reiterated its call to “institutions loving freedom and democracy to raise their voices and reject the totalitarian maneuvers of the regime of Daniel Ortega”.

Many countries have urged the Nicaraguan regime to release Chamorro Barrios, who was dismissed from his post on Wednesday with a precautionary measure requested by the prosecution.

And in Nicaragua, the opposition candidate for the presidency Felix Maradiaga affirmed that the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) “he wants to remove from the electoral process any candidate who enjoys broad popular support, as he is already doing with Cristiana Chamorro. This cowardly act of preventing a real electoral competition must not be recognized as legitimate by any opposition party ”.

The candidate Arturo cruz, a former Sandinista government ambassador Daniel Ortega (2007-2009) and one of the aspirants who meets almost all the requirements demanded by the CSE, in turn said: “If the dance of inhibitions continues and we end up with no other candidates, the logical thing is that this server is not participating in this (electoral) process.”

Ortega, who has governed since 2007 after having done so between 1979 and 1990, 42 years of almost absolute primacy over Nicaraguan politics will be played out next November.

The Organization of American States (OAS) has warned that Nicaragua heading “towards the worst possible elections”, when he qualifies as a “New attack on democracy” the disqualification of Chamorro Barrios, because it makes “even more impossible the existence of free, fair and transparent elections”.

With information from AFP and EFE

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