The representative of the main opposition party in Nicaragua left the country and went into exile in Costa Rica

The president of the Citizens for Freedom party (CxL), Kitty Monterrey left Nicaragua and went into exile in Costa Rica, various Nicaraguan media reported on Tuesday. This happened after authorities canceled his passport and barred his party from participating in the November elections.

Monterrey assured to have made this decision because, otherwise, “either they were going to take me to prison or they were going to deport me.” Indeed, during the current electoral process, the Nicaraguan authorities have arrested more than thirty opposition leaders, including seven presidential candidates.

The opposition woman appeared in an interview with Teletica, from Costa Rica, after he left the country on Monday.

“I decided to go into hiding until I saw how I could leave the country (…) Of course I did, (I felt threatened). There (Nicaragua), any person identified or blacklisted, is already someone at risk of going to jail. No one is sure anymore, ”he said.

Daniel Ortega’s regime reported on Sunday that canceled the passport of Carmella María Rogers Amburn, known locally as Kitty Monterrey, legal representative of the opposition Ciudadanos por la Libertad (CxL).

In a statement, the regime explained that it had withdrawn the ordinary passport of the 71-year-old political leader, also an American citizen, because out of 198 trips recorded, “a minority did so with a Nicaraguan passport”.

According to a report by the Directorate of Migration and Foreigners, “it is stated that according to the 198 migratory movements recorded, mainly Ms Rogers Amburn used US passports (in a minority they did so with a Nicaraguan passport) ”, without specifying it.

Therefore, the authorities resolved to render ineffective, as of the date, the Nicaraguan passport of Rogers Amburn, because, in addition, he obtained it “fraudulently”, Tenuous.

The fraudulent form, according to this portfolio, began with his registration as a Nicaraguan on June 7, 2005, which he performed at the Nicaraguan Consulate in San Francisco, California, United States. According to minutes from 16 years ago, the political leader had “improperly” registered under the name of Carmella Marie Kitty Monterrey, who is not her real name: Carmella María Rogers Amburn.

Without Nicaraguan nationality and without a party

Therefore, from now on, the political leader “is only an American citizen”added.

Rogers Amburn or Monterrey is the legal representative of the CxL, a party that defines itself as center-right, and whose Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) decided last Friday to cancel its legal personality, three months before the elections, during which Daniel Ortega is seeking a new re-election.

The CSE decided on Friday to withdraw CxL from the electoral game, which led an electoral alliance with an indigenous party and a civic organization, to cancel the citizen identity card of its legal representative.

By a resolution, the electoral magistrates, supporters of President Ortega, decided dissolve the CxL party, among others, for having registered as candidates for positions elected by universal suffrage considered as “traitors to the fatherland”, this is how the regime is removing those who demonstrated against it in April 2018.

In the current electoral process, the Nicaraguan authorities It was characterized by an incessant siege against the candidates and the referents of the opposition.

The Electoral Council also annulled the legal personality of three political parties and the Parliament, where the ruling party has an absolute majority, reformed the electoral law, who established greater control over the electoral structure in favor of the Sandinistas.

President Ortega, a former guerrilla on the verge of turning 76 and in power since 2007, seeks his fifth five-year term, fourth in a row and second with his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in the November elections.

(With information from EFE)

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