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Anastasio Somoza García (1896-1956), nicknamed "Tacho", took power in 1937 and inaugurated a family dynasty; after an electoral joke, he was re-elected until 1957 and declared: "I intend to stay in power for at least 40 years"; in 1955, he reformed the Constitution to be reelected in 1957; destiny plays him a trick, undergoes an attack and dies on August 29, 1956.
On the death of the dictator, two of his sons succeed him, Luis Somoza Debayle as president and Anastasio, nicknamed "Tachito", as Head of the National Guard. Luis ruled until 1963, the stamp printed by his father remains: corruption, abuse of power, repression and authoritarianism. From 1963 to 1967, there is a parenthesis in the control of power, they govern two puppets of the Somozas. In 1967, he took power "Tachito"; his government is the continuation of his father and his brother. The struggle of the Sandinista National Front of Liberation (FSLN) leaves him no respite, forced to resign, fled the country; it is said that he was already preparing his son Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero for the "dynastic succession".
On July 19, 1979, the coordinator of the Junta de Gobierno de Reconstrucción Nacional, headed by Daniel Ortega, took power. leader of the FSLN. Daniel Ortega called for elections and was elected for the period from 1985 to 1990; in 1990 he called again for elections and was defeated by Violeta Chamorro .
For the 5th time, Ortega ran for the 2006-2011 presidential term and won; after the Bolivarian mandate to perpetuate itself in power, notwithstanding Article 147 of the Constitution which states: "Can not be candidates for the presidency or the vice-presidency of the Republic: a) The one who exercises or has exercised the presidency of the Republic (…), nor the one who has exercised it for two presidential terms. "Ortega had already been twice president of Nicaragua, however, the Supreme Court gave the green light to be a candidate and to be re-elected
Ortega, with the consent of the docile Supreme Court, sent to the Assembly controlled by the dictator, the proposal to be re-elected indefinitely and this one approved, just as to the 39, time of the "Somoza dynasty." His government, which controls for 11 years all the powers of the state, is characterized by incessant persecution of his opponents.His main enemies: the independent press, his ex-companions fighting the dictatorship of S omoza, artists and writers, such as the poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal, as well as the brothers Carlos and Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, and all those who dare to challenge his totalitarian system that he has implanted.
In April, root of the so-called reforms to the Social Security, was the explosion of social protests, led, in particular, by young academics; the response of the Ortega-la Chayo couple, was a brutal repression, which up to now, amounts to about 300 dead and nearly 2,000 wounded, in addition to the prisoners.
The dictator Ortega's claims must remain in power, with his wife, his children and an unconditional group. There is no precedent in the history of Nicaragua that suffers, that such a brutal repression has been unleashed, not even in the hardest moments of the struggle against the Somoza dynasty.
Like the dictatorships of the Duvaliers, Trujillo, Noriega, the same Somoza, Stroessner, Pinochet, Maduro and a long etcetera, who employ and employ brutal organizations of thugs to suppress the opponents. Ortega uses not only the police for repression, but also the criminals of the so-called "Sandinista youth", known as "mobs"; This horde of criminals under the dictator's orders act, with hoods, armed with AK-47 rifles and with the police kill with complete impunity . One of the most brutal badaults, internationally spread, went to ecclesiastical authorities, who try to mediate in this virtually civil war.
What the international community is waiting to press for dictatorships like Ortega, Maduro and Morales, to stop mbadacring their people and go to prison to pay their atrocious crimes.
* Alberto Molina is Colonel (r) of the Armed Forces of Ecuador.
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