Daniel Ortega’s regime arrested student leader Lesther Alemán, known for confronting the dictator on television

Nicaraguan student leader German Lesther, who reprimanded the head of state of Nicaragua, Daniel ortega, at the start of a failed national dialogue three years ago, He was arrested on Monday evening, denounced the Nicaraguan University Alliance (AUN), of which it is part.

“On July 5, the person who raised the voice of all Nicaraguans to confront Ortega was arrested.AUN reported in a statement.

The national police have not yet confirmed or denied this arrest.

Another student leader, Max Jerez, was also arrested on Monday evening, he said in an audio Dolly Mora Ubando, which also belongs to this university alliance.

Prior to his arrest, Jérez wrote a message on his Twitter in which he said: “At the moment, the regime police are entering the hideout where I am sheltering”.

“Neither repression nor prison will stop the strength of the Nicaraguan people. We will go on and be free because there is still hope“He added.

Alemán said that Ortega is “a wounded beast”

In a telematic interview last Friday with the agency EFE, the German student leader declared that Ortega is a “totally injured beast“That he has crossed the red lines and is capable of anything, and that, in the midst of the current ‘hunt’ for arrests against political leaders of the opposition, had prepared for two scenarios: prison or death.

Alemán, 23, who stood out for speaking to Ortega, the leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), who is about to turn 76, admitted in the interview that he did not understand what it would mean to break into the old Marxist guerrillas and “to have made mortal what they once believed to be divine”.

When asked if for reprimanding Ortega, whom he asked to surrender, he turned him into a “target”, Alemán replied: “I want to assert something in this question. I would do it again as many times as necessary because I feel like I have claimed a right that I have as a Nicaraguan: to question power”.

“I didn’t understand that was going to mean berating Ortega, and by not evaluating him, I was afraid of becoming in some polls the second most hated and well-known person in the country,” added the student leader. , who said he was surprised at the “level of hatred” towards him from Sandinista sympathizers, police and “paramilitaries”.

Alemán said he feared for his life and that is why he prepared his parents, who are in exile, for “two scenarios: prison or death”., and that he would stay in Nicaragua and face the consequences. “Having nothing and having already lost everything, I only have my country left,” he said.

The wave of inmates

Nicaragua is going through convulsive weeks after the arrests of opposition leaders – including six presidential candidates – taking place ahead of the November 7 legislative elections in which Ortega, in power since 2007, is seeking re-election for five years in office. more.

Nicaraguan police arrest opposition presidential candidates Cristiana Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Miguel Mora and Medardo Mairena, whom she accuses of “treason against the motherland”.

In addition, two former vice-chancellors, two former Sandinista historic dissident guerrillas, a business leader, a banker, a former first lady, five opposition leaders, a journalist, two former NGO employees and a driver of Cristiana Chamorro.

The president, who returned to power in 2007 after coordinating a board of directors from 1979 to 1984 and first presiding over the country between 1985 and 1990, accused opposition leaders of trying to overthrow him with the support of the United States and called it “criminals”.

(With information from EFE)

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