We must force the resignation of Ortega and Murillo

We must force the resignation of Ortega and Murillo

The big capital acts like the reformist fraction of the Ortega regime, with a will of change but not to the rhythm of the people

That all Nicaraguans look to the private sector to do more for the struggle for freedom, justice and democracy in Nicaragua. It is not surprising to hear it every day on the street or on social networks. But which private sector should be more belligerent? Are we talking about the private sector as a machine where positions are homogeneous?

Beyond the obvious, the organized private sector is more like a force field where, in determining the economic capital they hold, agents challenge power around their visions and economic interests. and policies. Even some do not come into conflict because they are very much above other economic agents. Therefore, it is not the same thing to speak of the private sector embodied by the delegates of the chambers of commerce belonging to the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy (ACJD) than by the administrators of the Higher Council of the company. private sector (COSEP), that is to say: the big capital.

The political positions, although interrelated in one block, are diverse and, without a doubt, some visions are more attached to the demands of the vast majority of the Nicaraguan people as regards the solution of the socio-political crisis and the systematic violation of human rights

That said, we can answer the first questions asked. I think we demand more belligerence from bad fractions. It is important to recognize that the COSEP advisers are the ones who have the final say in the decisions as to the opportunity to directly pressure Ortega to open a negotiation process or to launch a national strike. It is up to them that the organized democratic forces of the people must demand that they "come down" from their place and dialogue with those who have never spoken: the people of Nicaragua.

We have to go to the pace of the city where the collapse is waiting for us

There is a big difference between the private sector, paradigmatically between big capital and the other sectors that constitute the "democratic bloc". For counselors COSEP Ortega and Murillo, it is a complex factor. On the one hand, it is a factor of instability for their companies in the short term, given the fact that the socio-political crisis and the violation of the rights of the company. have destroyed the confidence of economic agents and created an investment climate crisis. On the other hand, it is still "strong man", factor of future stability in the face of the emptiness of power and authority that could generate the resignation of the product autocrat derived from. a popular uprising. USA UU he also thinks For the other Nicaraguans, Ortega and Murillo constitute, in a rough way, a factor of destabilization and uncertainty, related to the removal of their future.

Thus, one could say of Guillermo Odonnell and Philippe Schmitter, experts in democratic transition, that this private sector, whose major capitals or such advisers have the last word, is the reformist faction of the old Ortega regime, eagerly of change but not at the pace of the city.

COSEP advisers and Ambbadador Sullivan must understand that Ortega and Murillo have become the biggest obstacle and danger to the well-being of Nicaraguan families and communities, and that the negotiations that Ortega has accepted as a " benevolent autocrat "have the goal that the position of EE. UU around sanctions "think better", lengthen the process without concluding political agreements with its counterpart of the ACJD, precisely because not to do it, and try to perpetuate itself in power by repressive force, is a guarantee of safety, that of your family and your nearest circle of power.

Ortega and Murillo know that their fate can bring them to trial in order to be tried for crimes against humanity, as the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) has rated it. Therefore, with political actors of this nature, you can not bargain, not only because they lack legitimacy, but also because they have the "noose", ready to be overwhelmed by everything the country.

Ortega and Murillo are forced to resign from their posts

Those are the COSEP advisers, Ambbadador Sullivan and EE. UU they must recognize it and put pressure on the actor who holds, in the final badysis, the real power in the Nicaraguan political field: the army, so that it gives an ultimatum to those who embody the dictatorship to leave power, offering minimal guarantees. If this process takes time, the collapse – as COSEP would say – would be imminent, not only on the part of the autocrats, but also the inability of major capitals to read this historic moment.

Likewise, and in parallel, said directors must carry out the necessary actions with regard to their representation within the ACJD, so that the most urgent requirement of all and all Nicaraguans becomes a reality at the expense of the will of Ortega and Murillo: the release of all political prisoners. Therefore, it is essential to strategically call for an urgent appeal to a national strike for how many days are necessary until the release of political prisoners and prisoners registered by the Political Prisoners Committee and the Commission. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

If the private sector wants to move from a reformist faction of the old Ortega regime to a democratic force capable of acting to change the correlation of forces in the domestic or national sphere, it must be articulated with the rhythm of the street; with the demands of the Committee of Political Prisoners and the April Mothers' Association (AMA), and with the cry of all the people who are demanding freedom, justice and democracy.

What is the road?

The only solution is the resignation of Ortega and the constitution of a transitional government, according to which establishes the constitution of the republic, and immediately the opening of a national dialogue between the forces democratically organized people and a serious delegation from the FSLN government. without Ortega and Murillo, who, together with the international guarantors, function as an extraordinary and non-institutional framework of co-management of political power, that is to say of governance and democratic transition with justice.

The purpose of this dialogue is to put an end to the process of liberation of all political prisoners and the cancellation of their trials, to the implementation of electoral reforms in support of a mission to the Organization of American States (OAS) and the agreement on the holding of free, transparent and observable early elections as soon as possible, as well as the creation of a genuine the truth composed of national and international organizations defending human rights.

The Blue and White National Unity and all the expressions that make up the organized democratic forces of the people must press for the end of the organized private sector that we deserve as a Nicaraguan society and stop being complacent, like some students, leaving aside the narrative of the transition, the great responsibility that should have the great capital of having captured the state and its institutions for so many years.

The restoration of democratic institutions and legality, as well as justice for the victims killed by the dictatorship, depend very much on their actions. Now it's time.

* Student in sociology. Member of the first national dialogue.