Nicaragua: the regime continues with the persecution of opponents and Ortega assured that “there is no space for negotiation”

The President of Nicaragua, Daniel ortegasays there is no room for negotiation neither him agreement with United States, a country he accuses of trying to boycott the November presidential elections, in which he is seeking re-election for the third consecutive time.

Ortega said on Monday that the United States is the “Enemy of humanity” and accused, without providing any evidence, that this nation is behind the recent protests in Cuba.

In a message on the occasion of 68th anniversary of the failed assault led by the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro against the barracks of Moncada, a fact considered to be the start of the Cuban revolution, Ortega said that in Cuba “imperialism attacks and tries to bend the inflexible”.

“And we respond with increasing dignity and ways of union, reaffirming that here, there and in the consciousness of all the free peoples of the world, we know that the Yankee, enemy of humanity, cannot and cannot may, for we are a spirit and a revolution of wild and enlightened hopes», Continued the Sandinista leader.

In the letter to the Cuban leader Raul castro and the dictator of this country, Miguel Díaz-Canel, whom he called “dear companions“, Ortega indicated that to greet” the Cuban revolution on this 68th anniversary of the historic assault on the Moncada barracks, it is to greet us, each one of the revolutionaries, the Nicaraguans and our Americans and Caribbeans ”.

“Moments like the ones we have lived are experienced from the immense spiritual force that these visionary days, of honorable courage, they bequeathed to us as an example of resistance and capacity for triumph “underlined the Sandinista leader who signed the document with his wife, the vice-president Rosario Murillo.

Yesterday, Ortega, who is weak strong international pressure, denounced in a speech Sunday afternoon that an interventionist spirit weighs on his nation, pushed by the United States, which seeks to undermine its government.

“In the face of empire, there is no space for understanding and negotiation”, said the president. “The empire does not want elections in Nicaragua, the empire wants to boycott them, wants to sow terrorism in our country“he claimed.

Nicaraguan police placed the opposition candidate under house arrest over the weekend José Vidaurre, which became the seventh possible presidential candidate be detained. The international community, led by the United States, He says there is no guarantee of holding free or fair elections in this Central American country.

Vidaurre is accused of inciting acts against sovereignty for “applaud“Sanctions against Nicaragua and”organize with funding from foreign powers to commit acts of terrorism and destabilization“, According to a press release.

The opposition denounces the search of his house and the disappearance of his son

Nicaraguan opposition leader Daisy George West denounced Monday the search of his home and the disappearance of his son, after the public prosecutor asked the judicial authority to order his “forced driving“For not showing up for appointments made by the prosecution for an investigation against two NGOs.

In a Twitter post, the activist for human rights for indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples said that The national police searched his home, where his son was, with whom he had no further communication.

“I don’t know where my son is, I don’t know how much destruction they have done (in the house)”, said George, a sociologist by profession with a master’s degree in social anthropology and leader of the opposition Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy in the Caribbean of Nicaragua, where he resides.

The Civic Alliance was the counterpart of the government of Daniel ortega at a negotiating table with which they sought a peaceful solution to the socio-political crisis that the country has been going through since April 2018.

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

The president, next to comply 76 years old 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 trying to overthrow him with the support of the United States and the United States. described as “the criminals”.

(With information from EFE and Reuters)

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