On June 8, 2021, at around 7 p.m., a strong police device assaulted the residence of the then presidential candidate Juan Sebastián Chamorro. During the same day, fellow candidate Félix Maradiaga and activists Violeta Granera and José Adán Aguerri were kidnapped. All members of two different opposition groups. Two years later, they are still searching for unity.
The now exiled and denationalized former politician Juan Sebastián Chamorro, in his personal Twitter account, recalls the sufferings he and all the political prisoners who were “kidnapped” in the Sandinista dungeons suffered and thanked the people of Nicaragua for having been aware of them and their families.
He recalled that in prison, in the midst of the suffering that the dictatorship made them go through, they had the opportunity to share among members of the different opposition groups and that was the best point of convergence for the opposition.
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“Ortega, by arbitrarily kidnapping us, what he did was join the opposition leadership. We were able to share many experiences and that, I think, was an element that greatly facilitated the union that should exist between the different opposition forces,” the opposition leader noted.
After spending 20 months and one day in jail, Chamorro, along with 221 political prisoners, was released on February 9 and exiled to the United States. Hours later, all of them were deprived of their nationality and forced to live in foreign lands under conditions of stateless
The Nicaraguan opposition has been criticized for remaining dispersed, with no real signs of unity. This is not the case for Chamorro, since he believes that there is a process of unity in the brand, what he calls “unity in action.”
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“Unity is something much broader than just bringing people together. The union is not an event, but a process in which we all have to go based on our abilities and possibilities, work on concrete actions, “explains the opponent, and considers that the imprisonment experienced by the more than 200 opponents was not in vain, because the opposition unit “is going to materialize and it will be done in action.”
“When you see meetings, when you see communications, when you see joint or coincident positions, it is unity in concrete and specific actions,” Chamorro reiterates.
The dictatorship is weaker than ever
Chamorro analyzes that the resurgence of repression and the increasingly extreme actions of the dictatorship are the best sign that they are weaker than ever, for which reason he called on the people of Nicaragua to remain optimistic because the Ortega regime is reaching its end. end.
«The next visit of the dictator of Iran, in the imprisonment of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, the repression of the Church and keeping almost 50 political prisoners, are extreme measures that show more weakness than strength. It is a historical fact that dictatorships carry out extreme actions when they are weak. The dictatorship is in its terminal process, which may take some time, but you have to have faith that these processes are irreversible,” encouraged the opposition leader.
