The vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, announced that the National Baseball Stadium, from which the name of former Major League player Dennis Martínez was withdrawn, will be reopened and will be called “Sovereignty” starting next December 15.
“National Sovereignty Stadium, will be installed this Friday at 5 pm We invite everyone, we call on everyone to participate in this moment, of dignity and national decorum, of honor, glory and victory of the Nicaraguan people, of the people of free women and men Hardworking, dignified, brilliant, that’s what we Nicaraguans are, who live with faith, in light, in life and in truth,” said the government spokesperson in her customary midday communication.
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He added that it is “great news, this week on Friday, we will be together, all together, as we go forward, in the reopening, reinstatement, of a name that represents the supreme sense of national value, honor and glory. We know that it is a name that brings us all together, a word that brings us all together, a symbol of what we all are, Estadio Nacional Soberania, starting now, starting this week.”
On November 23, the name of Dennis Martínez was not only removed from the exterior of the Stadium, but it was also removed from the venue’s social media accounts and from the propaganda of the matches. The regime wants to erase all traces of the greatest figure in Nicaraguan baseball in the Major Leagues. Martínez is a member of the World Baseball Hall of Fame.
The work was inaugurated on October 20, 2017, with the presence of Dennis Martínez himself. The National Stadium cost around 36 million dollars which were donated by the Taiwanese government. Until now the initiative of the Ortega propagandist had only remained in his aspirations.
During the social outbreak, in April 2018, the National Stadium was used as a headquarters for the paramilitaries and the Police itself, who fired at protesters from the colossus. This caused repulsion to the greatest glory of Nicaraguan baseball. In June of that year, Martínez rebelled against the dictatorship and demanded that the regime stop murdering citizens from the Stadium that bears his name.
“It hurts me to know that the stadium that bears my name is being occupied for purposes of violence, affecting my Nicaraguan brothers,” Martínez said at the time.
