Former President of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado He pointed out, during a virtual forum organized by the Blue and White Unit, held this Friday, April 21, the importance of the international community in the face of the sociopolitical and economic crisis that Nicaragua is going through at the hands of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Regarding the economic financing that Nicaragua enjoys from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), Alvarado indicated that the situation that the country is going through should be exposed to the presidents of each country that make up the regional financial organization so that “ they decide if, as legitimate representatives of those peoples, they agree or not that they contribute to a regime that is dictatorial.”
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For his part, the researcher Manuel Orozco, who also participated in the forum, indicated that it is really morally, economically and politically indefensible that CABEI is granting loans to the Ortega regime. “80% of the loans to Nicaragua come from CABEI,” he stated.
The expert explained that to put pressure on and prevent Ortega from continuing to finance, the approach must be “multidimensional and multi-institutional to more than 15 institutions and work with at least 10 countries in the world to put pressure on Nicaragua, but it is necessary to have the decision specific”.
Amanda Lopez, journalist’s mother Angel Gahona, assassinated on April 21, 2018, visited his son’s burial site this Friday, after commemorating five years of the crime that still remains in impunity. With sighs and a broken voice, remembering the Blufileño communicator, his mother expressed that he has “strength and faith in God because he is the only one who can do justice.”
The last memory that Amanda López has of her son was when days before April 21, the day of the murder of Ángel Gahona, he said goodbye to her with a hug and a kiss, who was traveling to Costa Rica. Her mother considers the journalist the last martyr for public liberties in Nicaragua.
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In this second kidnapping suffered by the soprano Olesia Muñoz, her relatives are experiencing the same anguish they were subjected to in 2018, with the difference that now they do not know the reasons for her arrest, her state of health, whether she has been accused or not. , or when it will be released.
After several days of anxiety and anguish, when touring the Masaya police stations and going to the cells of “El Chipote”, the soprano’s relatives found out that she was being held in the cells of District III of the Managua police station. but they are still unable to talk to her, to find out her state of health. Muñoz was arrested on April 6 at her home by a contingent of police officers.
The Nicaraguan Francisco Javier Pineda, 34, brother of the released political prisoner Jeysi Lagos, is in serious condition in a hospital in Florida, in the United States. Pineda apparently slipped from a roof he was repairing and fell. The accident suffered by the Nicaraguan suggests that he worked without the safety measures recommended in this type of work.
According to Lagos, after the fall, his brother suffered serious head injuries and broke both arms, for which he was rushed to a Jacksonville hospital, where doctors managed to stabilize him. Francisco Javier Pineda, is originally from the department of Jinotega and three months ago, he went into exile in the United States, due to the siege and persecution under which he lived by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua.
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So far in April, the month in which the fifth anniversary of the civic rebellion is commemorated, the Blue and White Monitoring has recorded 39 arbitrary arrests by the Police of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. According to the agency, most of the arrests are for political reasons. According to the latest Monitoring report, whose data is endorsed by organizations such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), of the total number of detainees, nine were released, although it does not clarify under what condition.
The newspaper The Press, the oldest in Nicaragua and a critic of the Daniel Ortega regime, pointed out that despite the confiscation of its facilities, the forced exile of all its personnel, the kidnappings and threats; the media “live and will continue to live.” On Wednesday, April 19, the Ortega dictatorship consummated the expropriation of the facilities of La Prensaa property valued between 18 and 20 million dollars.
In the stolen building, located at kilometer 4.5 on the northern highway of Managua, the National Technological Institute (Inatec) inaugurated the “José Coronel Urtecho Cultural and Polytechnic Center.” In its editorial, the newspaper pointed out that «putting the name of José Coronel Urtecho to that center or club installed on the usurped property of La Prensa, is an offense to the memory of the eminent Nicaraguan poet. Colonel Urtecho was a great friend of freedom of information, of La Prensa and personally of its historical director and martyr, Dr. Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal».
