The United States condemned the arrest of Bérénice Quezada and assured that the Ortega regime in Nicaragua “hit a new bottom”

The US State Department’s Western Hemisphere Affairs Office on Wednesday condemned the detention of Vice Presidential candidate Berenice Quezada and said the Nicaraguan President and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, “have hit a new rock bottom”.

“Quezada says Nicaraguans want changes, simple words that the dictatorial couple calls “terrorism”. This is not a real terror, only the fear of free and fair elections, ”the office wrote on its Twitter account.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) also condemned house arrest of the candidate Yes He called on the Ortega regime to guarantee “the full enjoyment of civil and political rights” to Nicaraguans.

According to her group, Alianza Ciudadanos por la Libertad (CxL), Quezada, was informed Tuesday evening of the measures taken by the judicial authorities and the public prosecutor, accompanied by the Police.

On Monday, CxL registered Quezada, a former beauty queen, as Oscar Sobalvarro’s running mate, businessman and veteran, amid the wave of arrests of opposition candidates by Ortega, who will run for a fourth consecutive term in the November 7 elections.

The Citizens for Freedom Alliance (CxL) had assured the day before that its candidate for vice-president did not have access to telephone communication and had “immigration restriction“In addition to the fact that he was in custody at his home.

The Nicaraguan public prosecutor reported on Wednesday that Quezada was accused of “inciting hatred and violence”., three months before the legislative elections.

“Yesterday a charge was laid against Berenice Xuyamy Quezada Herrera for having committed acts which promote and incite hatred and violence, acts which fall under the criminal category of provocation, proposition and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts . Yesterday, the preliminary hearing took place and the judicial authority admitted the accusation, ”detailed the public prosecutor in a statement.

The state office added that at the said hearing “He asked for the process to be published.”

Since the beginning of June, Nicaraguan justice has launched a hunt for opposition leaders. 32 have already been arrested, many of them at night, and their homes searched without warrants. Eight of them had the ambition to stand for the November 7 elections. The charges against him by the regime emphasize vague concepts such as “Attempt against Nicaraguan society and the rights of the people.”

The truth is that after 14 consecutive years in power, a weakened Daniel Ortega will run for a fourth consecutive term with his wife, Rosario Murillo, and as the polls show his popularity is on the ground, he decided to rig the electoral process with all kinds of tricks, to exclude international observers and to arrest and directly exclude from the elections anyone who might get in his way.

(With information from Reuters and EFE)

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