The hunt of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against Nicaraguan opponents continues. The Democratic Renovating Union (Unamos), formerly known as the Sandinista Renovating Movement (MRS), denounced that the Ortega dictatorship “unleashed a repressive attack in the last two weeks” against that political organization.
Unamos did not detail in its statement the number of arrests of its affiliates recorded in the last two weeks. Nevertheless, CONFIDENTIAL learned that in the last 72 hours there have been at least five arrests of dissidents to the Ortega-Murillo regime in different municipalities of the country.
“Harassment, persecution, threats have increased considerably in different departments of the country against our affiliates and their families, and equally there have already been several kidnappings”, he denounced in a statement released on September 14.
In the statement they point out that the intention of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship is to silence them and destroy their organization. Although, they warned that “they will not achieve it, as they have not achieved in the 27 years of our existence, as they have failed even with the imprisonment of a large part of our leadership, and the death in prison of our vice president Hugo Torres” .
The detainees
The five arrests are known to have occurred in Nueva Guinea, Managua, Ocotal and León. On September 12, through social networks, the arrest of Nicolás Palacios, originally from León, was denounced, who is related to having participated in the social protests of 2018, in rejection of the social security reforms, which They wanted to reduce the pensions of retirees.
A week before these new arrests, on September 5, Unamos denounced that Raúl Oporta, one of its members from Nueva Guinea, was arrested in his home on the afternoon of September 4.
“We demand your immediate freedom,” urged the political organization through its social networks.
The Ortega-Murillo regime has also kept four Unamos leaders detained for more than a year in the cells of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, known as El Chipote, among them: the organization’s president, Suyen Barahona, and directors Ana Margarita Vijil, Dora María Téllez and Tamara Dávila.
Another of the Unamos leaders who was deprived of his liberty is Víctor Hugo Tinoco, who first spent more than 330 days in El Chipote and then, last May, was transferred home to prison due to his health condition.
Aggravation of persecution
The regime of Daniel Ortega has increased the persecution in the territories. In the last week, social activists, journalists and opponents of Bluefields, in the South Caribbean of Nicaragua, were victims of the Ortega repression after stickers were clandestinely placed on the streets of that municipality. in support of Monsignor Rolando Álvarezbishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, who has been under house arrest since last August 19.
On September 12, the citizen observatory Urnas Abiertas published an alert about “the aggravation of political violence faced by the population of Bluefields”, and highlighted that the Police, in alliance with party structures of the Sandinista Front, “increased the persecution against opposition figures.”
Ivania Álvarez, director of citizen networks at Urnas Abiertas, indicated that between September 6 and 11, the cases of ten people were registered, who were victims of siege, persecution and raids ordered by the Ortega-Murillo regime in Bluefields. Some of those harassed had to leave the municipality to “avoid possible arrest or the use of physical violence by the Police.”
