The regime sat this Tuesday in the dock of the accused at French citizens Jeannine Horvilleur Cuadra Y Ana Alvarez Horvilleurwife and daughter respectively of the opponent Javier Alvarez, as well as his son-in-law Felix Roiz Sotomayor.
The three detainees are being accused by the Sandinista justice of alleged conspiracy to undermine national integrity and propagation of false news. Sources assure that the process in charge of Judge Ernesto Salmerón will continue on Wednesday the 18th.
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Human rights organizations have denounced that the “new modality” of the dictatorship is to arrest the relatives of opponents since they cannot imprison activists.
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo detained the retired general commissioner Adolfo Marencowho served as head of the Investigation and Intelligence Directorate of the National Police and was sent into retirement last November.
Unofficial sources informed us that the regime sent him to the cells of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as El Nuevo Chipote, in Managua, presumably to prevent him from fleeing the country.
Marenco was considered the “eyes and ears” of the presidential couple and the fourth most powerful person in the country, behind only Ortega, Murillo and Néstor Moncada Lau.
Journalistic investigations indicate that he was labeled the “sinister arm” and “shadow operator” of the repressive strategy in the Police because he had access to and collected any type of information necessary against the opposition, even against the Sandinistas themselves.
According to the newspaper La Prensa, the General Commissioner Pedro Rodríguez Argueta He is also a prisoner in El Chipote. Rodríguez is accused of directing the so-called Cleaning Operation in Carazo in 2018, when he was the police chief of that department. Less than a month ago, he was the police chief of the Mining Triangle and Mulukukú.
The Urnas Abiertas observatory affirms that the consolidation of the municipal control of the government party of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, to be completed on January 20, represents “a serious setback in the progress that had been made during the 1980s and 1990s.”
The multidisciplinary team regrets that they currently register an “incipient” local development and considers that this involution responds to “the politicization of management, the absence of oversight, control and accountability mechanisms, as well as the centralization of decisions, which They do not put the interests of the population in each territory at the center, but the interests of the party in power at a general level and of the decision makers at a particular level”.
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The Government announced that it will launch the 2023 school year virtually, on January 23, when more than 1.8 million students return to school.
The government spokesperson, Rosario Murillo, reported that all the Education centers “will be connected virtually from Managua,” although she did not specify what the inauguration will consist of. The launch will be at the Rigoberto López Pérez Institute.
The writer Sergio Ramirez Mercado will be awarded the Seventh International Solidarity Humanism Award “Erasmus de Rotterdam” 2022, granted by the International Solidarity Humanism Association.
The organization reported that “the jury wanted to point out a personality who represents the ethical principles that he has supported throughout his life, such as the principles of solidarity, interculturality, humanity, dignity and values of the human being in his work of thought, intellectual, creative, or literary.”
