Daniel Ortega wants to dialogue and shows it with an unusual gesture

MANAGUA, Nicaragua.- The Nicaraguan government, seeking to demonstrate its intention to dialogue with the opposition, has provisionally released 100 political prisoners, nearly a year after its arrest following protests against the government of Daniel Ortega.

The release of these political prisoners took place in the early hours of this Wednesday, as part of the beginning of conversations between the Sandinista regime and the opposition. The negotiations will seek to find a peaceful solution to the important socio-political crisis that is shaking the Central American country.

The strong crackdown by the Ortega government has left more than 400 dead in protests that have since demanded the resignation of the president of Nicaragua. During all these months, the Central American country was plunged into a serious crisis and some of its opponents were sentenced to prison terms of more than 100 years.

The Ortega measure allows political prisoners to be under house arrest. An estimated 780 jailers have been imprisoned since protests erupted in April and July of last year..

But the opposition bloc, which includes businessmen, students, peasants and civil society organizations, hopes that this time, Daniel Ortega will agree to discuss the merits of the issue and not just economic issues, as he has done so far. They want the release of prisoners, the freedom of expression and mobilization and the advancement of elections.

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, affirmed that the agency could play the role of guarantor of the national dialogue in Nicaragua and repeated that this required the release of political prisoners, which began to happen. It was learned that Daniel Ortega's regime opposed this possibility presented by the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy.

For the time being and after the preliminary discussions, the government negotiating team and the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy have advanced nine points out of 12, according to the apostolic nuncio, Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag. , without giving more details.