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San José.- The Nicaraguan Parliament, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, yesterday approved the entry into the country of troops, vessels, aircraft and military equipment from Mexico, the United States, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Taiwan and El Salvador. , Guatemala, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, to deploy military exercises from June to December 2018 with the Nicaraguan Army.
Deputies of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and Allied parties authorized the entry of troops from the country by 73 votes, 11 against and one abstention, in a country that has fallen since April 18 in the country. the worst political, institutional and socio-economic crisis of the 21st century through uninterrupted anti-government protests that, according to independent Nicaraguan human rights organizations, so far recorded about 300 deaths.
The National Assembly (Unicameral Congress) approved two Ortega decrees, in which he argued that foreign troops and their troops would enter Nicaragua for "training, instruction and training purposes". Exchange of military exercises of a humanitarian nature ".
No official source has provided details on the number of soldiers The internal conflict broke out first in the repudiation of Ortega's reform to social security and led massive protests against President and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, to demand free and fair elections. the resignation of the ruling couple to open a transition to democracy.
Untimely. The opposition Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) claimed that it had rejected the deployment of foreign troops because it had been registered at an inconvenient time because of the current political situation in Nicaragua.
MP Azucena Castillo, PLC, urged the ten countries authorized to "For the sake of prudence" to refrain from sending troops and equipment due to the severe local crisis and argue that given the repression of demonstrations, which he attributes to police and paramilitary forces, the Nicaraguan population may fear that foreign troops will participate in repressive acts.
MP Edwin Castro, legislative head of the FSLN, responded that congressional members opposed to the entrance of foreign forces are attacking the wall of protest that the Nicaraguan government has established to stop drug trafficking. The PLC, he adds, "seems to support drug cartels."
The Nicaraguan army has become a bastion of presidential power since Ortega took office in 2007 for the first of his three consecutive five-year terms. proclaimed that he will refrain from repressing anti-government protests.
Nicaragua opened nearly ten years ago intense military cooperation with Russia, Cuba and Venezuela, but also with the United States, Taiwan and Central America. Caribbean.
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