This August 30, the regime presented for the first time ten political prisoners held captive more than a year ago in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, known as “El Nuevo Chipote.”
The images, which were disclosed by the government media, show Marcos Fletes, Walter Gómez, Pedro Vásquez, Miguel Mora, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Michael Healy, Lesther Alemán, Max Jerez, Medardo Mairena and José Antonio Peraza.
The regime assured that the political prisoners were taken this Tuesday morning to the Managua Courts for an alleged “informative hearing” with the aim of demonstrating that the prisoners are supposedly “in perfect health.”
However, the union leaders and the former workers of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation looked pale, with bags under their eyes, tired eyes and some, with extreme thinness. Despite their status, opposition leaders were smiling at Daniel Ortega’s officials.
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The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounced that there is no “informative hearing” in the legal procedure, the term that the regime used to exhibit the political prisoners of “El Nuevo Chipote.”
The organization indicated that transferring the inmates to the courts, where they were photographed and recorded on video by government media, was another “torture session and another way of imposing terror” against the detainees and their families.
Nicaragua’s former ambassador to the OAS Arturo McFields also denounced that exhibiting them is a “fascist technique,” while comparing him to the German dictator Adolf Hitler who was trying to “deny the abuses of the concentration camps and mounted a parallel narrative.” For their part, opposition and feminist organizations demanded that the dictatorship also present women political prisoners.
The Colombian Foreign Minister, Alvaro Leyva Duranwas forced to issue a statement to explain Colombia’s absence from the OAS session that condemned the repression of Daniel Ortega.
Leyva stated that “Colombia’s absence was due to both strategic and non-ideological humanitarian reasons.”
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According to the official, “diplomatic silence was maintained because they could not make public the steps that were being taken before obtaining a result.” However, Colombian analysts assure that Petro “is seeking a compadrazgo with Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.”
US Senator Marco Rubio demanded that President Joe Biden apply more sanctions to officials of the Daniel Ortega regime and suspend Nicaragua’s trade benefits in the DR-CAFTA trade agreement, in order to “hold the dictatorship accountable for its crimes.” ».
Rubio maintained that the United States has the power to do so under the 2018 Nica Law and the Renacer Law. In turn, he stated that the US president’s silence is deafening and asked the international community to “do more” to support the Catholic leaders persecuted by the Nicaraguan dictatorship.
The sending of family remittances in July presented an increase of 55% in relation to the same month last year. According to official figures, Nicaraguans sent 274.4 million dollars, in the midst of an “unprecedented” migration.
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The Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN) reported that, in the first seven months, the country has received 1,670.6 million dollars, which means a growth of 38% compared to the same period in 2021. Nicaraguans abroad sent money from United States, followed by Spain and Costa Rica. The banking entity confirmed that the flows from the North American country have increased, as well as those sent from El Salvador, Canada and Mexico.
The data coincides with the departure of Nicaraguans fleeing the crisis in search of better opportunities in the north of the continent.
