By orders of Rosario Murillo, the political secretary of the department of León was dismissed, Evertz Delgadillo, who was faithfully carrying out her and Daniel Ortega’s orders for more than 15 years. The reasons: the terrible results of the electoral farce last November.
A party source told Voces Unidas that on November 24, Delgadillo was asked to hand over the party office. “They told him that they were not satisfied with the work in the elections, there was no good management in the municipal elections in the 10 mayors of that department. Murillo did not like the results.
According to complaints, the former mayor of the municipality in 2005 was one of the mob leaders who attacked the elderly who were protesting against the reforms of the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS) in the colonial city before the social outbreak of 2018.
another takes his place
José Ramón Sarria Morales, forty-five years old, has been a deputy since 2007, that is, he has spent fifteen consecutive years (three terms) as a departmental deputy for León, obedient to Rosario Murillo.
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The National Police reported on the arrest of Jorge Osbaldo Lacayo Cuadra, 37, designated as a member of an alleged drug gang called “El Rey”. Lacayo is the son of retired General Oswaldo Lacayo Gabuardi, who was a member of the Nicaraguan Army leadership during the period of General Joaquín Cuadra Lacayo.
The businessman is accused of being one of the “authors of the crimes of organized crime, money laundering, goods and assets.” With his capture, the institution considers the gang dismantled, since several of its members are under arrest. According to the Police, the leader of the gang is identified as Olof Bladimir Altamirano Aguirrewho is still “being searched for his capture and prosecution.”
Altamirano Aguirre is the son of a retired police commissioner and is allegedly part of a gang known as El Fierro, linked to Honduran drug traffickers nicknamed Los Cahirros. In 2017 he was sentenced to 6 months in prison for the crime of illegal possession of weapons.
The United States condemned this Friday that the Nicaraguan authorities have prohibited the entry into the country of the delegate of the EFE Agency in Managua, the Nicaraguan Luis Felipe Palacios, when he was returning from a work trip.
A State Department spokesman told the EFE news agency that “the forced exile is another attempt to silence dissidents and intimidate anyone who might criticize the regime.”
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The spokesman also recalled that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Nicaragua is a party, establishes that “no one can be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter their own country” and it is a new chapter of the “repressive trend against journalists and the free press” in Nicaragua.
The Government of Nicaragua handed over a mining concession of 4,291.29 hectares for 25 years for the use of metallic and non-metallic minerals in the north of that country, the Nicaraguan Ministry of Energy and Mines reported this Friday.
The Nicaraguan authorities granted the concession to the company Desarrollo Minero de Nicaragua (Desminic), a subsidiary of the Canadian Caliber Mining, which last October withdrew from at least three mining concessions in Nicaragua, one day after the US Treasury Department The United States will sanction the General Directorate of Mines, attached to the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
The United States included this Friday Cuba and Nicaragua on its blacklist of countries that systematically violate religious freedomwhich entails possible sanctions against these nations, indicate international media.
In the list of Countries of Special Concern, prepared annually by the State Department, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Burma, Eritrea, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan repeat this year.
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The inclusion of Cuba and Nicaragua is another step in the deterioration of the relations of the Joe Biden government with that of Miguel Díaz-Canel of Havana and that of Daniel Ortega of Managua.
The countries included in the list are subject to possible sanctions such as the cancellation of scientific and cultural exchanges, the suspension of development assistance, the blocking of loans or export restrictions.
