Daniel Ortega’s regime attacked wives of detained opposition candidates

The Nicaraguan public prosecutor announced on Tuesday that it had opened an investigation against Berta Adelma Valle Otero and Victoria Eugenia Cárdenas Lacayo, the wives of two of the seven Nicaraguan presidential candidates arrested, for allegedly violating “the rights of the Nicaraguan people and society”.

“Last week, Berta Adelma Valle Otero and Victoria Eugenia Cárdenas Lacayo held several meetings with Senators, Members of Congress and other United States government officials; meetings in which they demanded to use pressure mechanisms against Nicaragua, ”the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

For such reason, the national police have carried out an investigation, and the public prosecutor, after having made the analysis, will present a charge, “Since such actions are considered violate the national legal system“He continued.

According to the public prosecutor, “There are clear indications that they attacked Nicaraguan society and the rights of the people, in accordance with the Law for the Defense of the Rights of the People to Independence, Sovereignty and Self-Determination for Peace and the Penal Code.

“They have committed acts which undermine the independence, sovereignty and self-determination of Nicaragua and They publicly demanded foreign interference in internal affairs in various international forums, calling for economic, commercial and financial blockades against the state of Nicaragua., its institutions and its citizens, ”he declared.

This controversial law, promoted by the Executive and urgently approved by the National Assembly, with a Sandinista majority, last December, lists “traitors to the homeland” and disqualifies them from running for public office.

THEY ASKED BIDEN TO “LOOK AT NICARAGUA”

Valle and Cárdenas arrived in Washington last week to discuss the situation of their husbands Félix Maradiaga and Juan Sebastián Chamorro, respectively, arrested on June 8 on charges by the authorities of “inciting foreign interference in the internal affairs” of Nicaragua, an end that both reject.

in Washington They called on US President Joe Biden to use “all available mechanisms” to secure the release of “political prisoners” and give way to a democratic transition in the Central American country.

Valle, who lives in Miami (USA) with her daughter, asked Biden to “turn his gaze to Nicaragua” and “use all the mechanisms at his disposal to demand their unconditional release.” of their husbands and of the more than 140 “political prisoners” of their country.

Cardenas, for his part, said that they do not trust “current circumstances for credible and legitimate elections to take place” in which Nicaragua “can attain its freedom”.

WAVE OF ARRESTS IN NICARAGUA

Nearly 30 opposition leaders have been arrested over the past two months for the alleged crime of “treason against the motherland”. less than four months before the legislative elections in November, in which the country’s president, Sandinista Daniel Ortega, will seek another re-election.

The police, directed by Francisco Díaz, brother-in-law of Ortega, arrested opposition presidential candidates Cristiana Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Miguel Mora, Medardo Mairena and Noel Vidaurre, who are also under investigation for suspected treason.

In addition, two former vice-chancellors, two former Sandinista historic dissident guerrillas, a business leader, a banker, a former first lady, six opposition leaders, two student leaders, two peasant leaders, a journalist, a commentator , two former NGO workers, and a pilot marked by Cristiana Chamorro when we have the information.

The arrests of opposition leaders take place ahead of the November 7 elections in which Ortega, A former Sandinista guerrilla who returned to power in 2007 and ruling alongside his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo since 2017, will seek to extend his term of office by five years.

The dictator, who is on the verge of turning 76 and who coordinated a board of directors from 1979 to 1984 and first presided over the country between 1985 and 1990, accused opposition leaders of attempting to overthrow it with the support of the United States. United States and called them “criminals”.

(With information from EFE)

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