Daniel Ortega gets rid of early elections and says that he stays up until 2021

Daniel Ortega, President-Elect of Nicaragua, dismissed the possibility of advancing the elections and affirmed, in an interview with Fox News, that he would remain in power until 2021. [19659002] "I heard this question of early elections, but I did not say that we had to move the elections forward.On the contrary, early elections would create instability and uncertainty. 39, insecurity, even worse under these conditions, "said Ortega in the program" Special Report ", before the question of interviewer Bret Baier on the opportunity to accept the elections

. that would take in 2021, "said Ortega

On the issue of paramilitaries, who act in view of the National Police and carry weapons of the Nicaraguan Army, Baier questioned Ortega that his It is not funding the paramilitaries, who does? Ortega responded that funding is provided by "drug cartels" and "others with agencies."

In the Interview, Baier told Ortega that "several human rights organizations claim that 350 people died in Nicaragua " and asked him "why there are paramilitary forces against those who protest against his government. "Ortega replied that" we have a week that riots have stopped. And then some activities of demonstrations both against and in favor of the government. "

On the subject of the Catholic Church, whose Ortega bishops accused of" putsch "in his speech of July 19, the president said in the interview that" we have no problem with the Catholic Church "and added that" no Nicaraguan has died in a church, that's wrong. "

However, on July 14, the student of The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN Managua), Gerald Vásquez, died in the Divina Misericordia parish as a result of the attack that paramilitary forces carried out against university students The parish opened its doors to treat the wounded.

Similarly, Ortega mentioned the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, who was one of the most critical voices against the regime, and said that Báez "has his way of thinking act, his speech is not new. Since arriving in Nicaragua, he arrived with this speech because he did not live in Nicaragua during the war. "

Báez was attacked by the crowds of Ortega when together with a delegation of the clergy of Managua, the Apostolic Nuncio, he arrived at Basilica San Sebastián, in Diriamba , Carazo.The bishop was wounded in the arm

"There is no priest who is persecuted, there is not a single priest who can say that he was attacked by the government, "said Ortega.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega: There is not a single priest that we persecute. #SpecialReport pic.twitter.com/ zpXGQp4wkK

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"40 years ago you were a young revolutionary fighting a dictatorship People in the streets say that Ortega and Somoza are the same thing. Do you leave power? "Interviewed interviewer Ortega told him that" I do not even think about starting a dynasty. My wife, vice president, had never been vice president. "

Ortega told Baier that he had granted this interview to nine independent media," because we are a small country with a fragile economy, but we deserve respect. "