The Sandinista dictatorship has once again unleashed panic where fear is already sown. Its police agents began a new wave of repression on Wednesday night in different parts of the Central American country against human rights activists, opponents, journalists, peasant leaders and members of the Catholic Church.
According to the special report carried out by the Blue and White Monitoring, the 57 arrested so far, including about twenty women, “were accused by the judicial system” of crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and propagation of false news. .
On this occasion, the regime of the Ortega Murillo couple has not filled the Nicaraguan political prisons, where there are already 45 political prisoners, including the rebel bishop of Matagalpa, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez. The regime has imposed extremely harsh alternative measures on the majority, including daily appearances before the regime’s judges. However, the whereabouts of some of the detainees, such as the priest Bayardo Aguilar, in Chinandega, are unknown.
Among the detainees were Teresa Mena; belonging to the peasant movement; the journalist William Aragón; the political leader Iliana Velásquez and the activist Harold González. The agents used violence in a large part of their interventions, despite the fact that the detainees also included Octavio Ortega, whose leg was amputated due to diabetes, and Marycruz Bermúdez, mother of Richard Pavón, one of the young men murdered in April 2018, the month in which the social rebellion against the dictatorship began.
The raid on May 3 sought to “disarm and hit the citizen resistance structures and the leaderships that are taking shape,” sources opposed to this newspaper revealed, under anonymity for security reasons. “They do it to maintain fear and to prevent people from mobilizing and not participating in activities. The objective is to keep at bay any possibility of civic and citizen action,” the same sources added.
“We raise our voices together with those who believe that the fight is the highest of songs and that knowing how to fight is knowing how to win,” the “co-president” Rosario Murillo harangued in her television liturgy.
Despite the attacks of 2021 and 2022, when leaders and middle managers of the opposition were arrested to end up in exile in February of this year, the structure was maintained and new leaders emerged from it, which have promoted the resistance actions of recent weeks . Among them, the religious demonstrations during Holy Week, when the police prohibited and harassed the processions in the country.
“It represents an escalation in State terrorism. In this phase, the authorities seek to turn the territory into a prison for Nicaraguans, where judicial measures are imposed in a whimsical way that appear mild, but actually involve defamation, persecution and the increased risk of suffering physical attacks and suppression of life”, the Nicaraguan University Alliance (AUN) and other organizations denounced jointly.
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