Backing down, including a diplomatic snub, on the favor granted by Daniel Ortega to Fernando Ponz Cantó, ambassador of the European Union (EU) in Nicaragua, who had the prior approval of the Sandinista regime. “Given his interventionist, daring and insolent statement of this day, which ratifies the imperialist and colonialist positions that characterize the EU, on the eve of the National Day of Peace, the Government has decided to suspend the consent granted to Fernando Ponz as an overwhelming power” , reported Foreign Minister Denis Moncada.
With the usual verbiage, the dictatorship took the opportunity to condemn the “historical genocide” and to demand “justice and reparation for these crimes against humanity and their virulent, greedy and rapacious looting of our wealth and our own cultures.”
The Sandinista slam comes a few hours after the fifth anniversary of the citizen rebellion against the dictatorship, which is already being commemorated in Nicaraguan exile. Since then, the presidential couple has multiplied the persecution and siege against civil society and the opposition, a repression that adds up to 375 violent deaths in demonstrations.
Ortega’s furious reaction occurs almost immediately after Brussels recalled the rebellion of April 2018 with a new call for the search for a democratic, peaceful and negotiated solution. “Instead of listening to and respecting their demands, the Nicaraguan people have faced systematic repression ever since,” summed up Foreign Affairs spokesman Peter Stano.
The Sandinista apparatus has mounted a display of its propaganda to mitigate the protests of opponents and activists abroad, which includes the name of National Day of Peace. Last weekend, Ortega expressed his willingness to banish the more than 40 political prisoners that he keeps in his dungeons.
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