Switzerland sanctions wife and son of dictator Daniel Ortega for human rights violations in Nicaragua

The Federal Council of the Swiss government has applied new sanctions to eight officials of the Nicaraguan regime of Daniel Ortega, among whom stand out his wife, Rosario Murillo, and his son Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo, which join the sanctions announced by the European Union (EU) on August 2.

Measurements include asset freeze and ban on entry or transit through Switzerland.

The others sanctioned are Alba Luz Ramos Vanegas, president of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ); Bayardo Arce Castaño, presidential adviser for economic affairs; Gustavo Porras Cortés, President of the National Assembly; Ana Julia Guido Ochoa, Attorney General; and the general commissioners Fidel Dominguez Alvarez, police chief of León; Yes Juan Antonio Valle Valle, head of surveillance and patrol.

Switzerland had already announced sanctions in June last year against the head of the National Police, Francisco diaz, the political and espionage operator of the presidential couple, Néstor Moncada Lau, the advisory minister of health, Sonia castro, and the police chiefs Ramón Avellán, Luis Alberto Pérez Olivas and Justo Pastor Urbina, according to the newspaper Confidential from Nicaragua.

This way they are already 14 Nicaraguan regime officials sanctioned by Switzerland.

“The reason for this decision is that Switzerland shares the EU’s concerns regarding the continuing violations of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Nicaragua”said a spokesperson for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) on the website of the International service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (swissinfo.ch).

The sanctions will take effect this Friday at 6 p.m. (Swiss time), SECO reported.

Regime extended arrest of former Nicaraguan Ambassador Mauricio Díaz by 90 days

Former Nicaraguan Ambassador to Costa Rica Mauricio José Díaz Dávila to remain in prison for up to 90 days to be investigated for the alleged crime of treason, as the public prosecutor of Daniel Ortega’s regime reported on Wednesday.

The prosecution explained that it had presented a request for a special hearing on constitutional guarantees to request the extension of the period of investigation and judicial detention against the former diplomat “because he is the subject of an investigation by the national police for clues that they attacked Nicaraguan society and the rights of the people ”.

Also because “he would have committed acts that compromise the independence, sovereignty and self-determination of Nicaragua” and “he publicly incited, in various instances, to foreign interference in internal affairs, he also celebrated the imposition of sanctions against the State of Nicaragua and its citizens ”.

“The special hearing took place today, the request was granted and judicial detention was pronounced for 90 days”, indicated this portfolio.

Díaz, who occupies the post of member of CxL, a party whose legal status was canceled by the Supreme Electoral Council last Friday for allegedly violating the electoral law, became the thirty-second opponent to be arrested since May 28. , in view of the legislative elections of November 7, during which Ortega will seek a new re-election.

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