The retired general Humberto Ortega Saavedrabrother of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, called for a “holy truce” to prevent the country from embarking on “brutal chaos.”
In addition, the former head of the Nicaraguan Army exonerated his older brother of the crimes against humanity of which he is accused by international organizations.
Through a opinion article published by Ortega In the newspaper La Prensa, he proposes that “the national parties must cease the high confrontation of hatred, exclusion.”
Persecuted, exiled, without nationality and without effective State plans in the face of the high rate of femicide, this is how Nicaraguan women received March 8. In it International Women’s DayThey don’t even have the right to march in the country.
In the opinion of feminists, the conditions show “a strong setback” in the exercise of women’s rights and the current existence of “a historic debt” on the part of the State of Nicaragua.
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Despite the fact that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo maintains the discourse of gender equality and the “restitution of the rights” of women, many women commemorated the date from forced exile and others, awaiting justice for the death of their children or relatives murdered by operators of the dictatorship.
The organizations also demanded the freedom of Martha Candelaria Rivas Hernandez, 44 years old, the only political prey. She is about the woman who refused to testify against the Father Manuel Salvador Garciaparish priest of the Jesús de Nazareno church, in Nandaime.
The organizations also reminded the 16 Nicaraguan victims of femicide so far this year; half of them were murdered abroad. The Observatory of Catholics for the Right to Decide indicates that the victims are between 18 and 59 years old, and the crimes have left 15 minors orphans.
camila ortegadaughter of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, in the company of other regime officials, declared the confiscation of the facilities of the closed Meeting Points Foundationan NGO that promoted, among other things, equality and the decision-making power of women in all areas of life.
The regime decided to take over the building to install cooking, fashion, photography, digital marketing, makeup, and interior design workshops, among others; under the “go-ahead” of Camila, who is the general coordinator of the so-called National Commission for Creative Economy.
The authorities of the Juan Pablo II University, recently canceled by the Government, issued a statement stating that the university “will be in permanent communication with the educational community, informing of the procedures to follow in the orderly transfer of our house of study to The authorities”. There are already 19 private universities canceled by the Nicaraguan dictatorship.
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The Under Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the United States Department of State, Brian Nicholspointed out that the arbitrary stripping of the legal personality of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep) and of 18 business chambers in Nicaragua “further weakens the fragile business environment” of the country.
