Daniel Ortega’s regime arrested Nicaragua’s sixth opposition presidential candidate

The peasant chief Medardo Mairena, who had announced his intention to run for the Nicaraguan presidency through the opposition, was arrested on Monday evening On July 5, like three other rural leaders, they denounced the Nicaraguan Peasant Movement.

“The Ortega-Murillo hunting dictatorship. Today they have kidnapped, for the moment, four main leaders of our movement. Pedro Mena, Medardo Mairena, Freddy Navas and Pablo Morales “this group reported in a statement.

With these four arrests, the opponents apprehended Monday evening would increase to six, and to 27 since May 28.

The other two are student leaders, Lesther Alemán and Max Jérrez.

Alemán, 23, is the same who berated Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega in a live TV broadcast at the start of a failed national dialogue three years ago, in which he called for his surrender.

WAS SENTENCED TO 216 YEARS IN PRISON

In Mairena’s case, it is a peasant leader who launched his aspirations for the presidency of Nicaragua on April 7 through the National Opposition Coalition, which found itself without a program after the electoral power canceled the legal status of the only party of that party. .block, which has been legalized.

Mairena was in prison for the demonstrations against the Sandinista regime that erupted on April 18, 2018, and a judge linked to dictator Ortega sentenced him to 216 years in prison for allegedly killing four policemen, and later was granted amnesty.

Mairena, leader of the Nicaraguan anti-chain peasant movement, brought justice to the victims of the social, political and human rights crisis in Nicaragua, as well as the release of hundreds of prisoners who are considered political prisoners by the opposition and humanitarian organizations.

Nicaragua is experiencing convulsive weeks after the arrests of opposition leaders, which take place ahead of the November 7 legislative elections, in which Ortega, in power since 2007, is seeking re-election for another five years.

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

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

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

(With information from EFE)

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