The Legal Defense Unit, through the report “The impact of political imprisonment on the sons and daughters of political prisoners in Nicaragua,” which it released this week, recorded the effects suffered by 37 minors, children of political prisoners, highlighting that they are in “extreme vulnerability.”
“Effects have been found in all areas of children’s lives, whether at the family, psycho-emotional, social or economic level,” the UDJ defenders denounce in the document.
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The report also notes that children of prisoners of conscience “have suffered direct or indirect violence by state agents, for example by witnessing the violent arrest of their parent, the search of their home, the temporary eviction of their home, the confiscation of their property, including toys” and the denial of visits to their parents.
The UDJ revealed that five of the 37 cases of minors, children of political prisoners, included in the study “have not been able to visit” their detained parents “because the authorities have denied it to them” and another 13 have not been able to see them “for personal reasons.”
The relatives of the teenager who spent more than a year without seeing his father explained that it was not until this August that the prison authorities authorized the admission of the minor, removing the obstacle of requesting an ID for minors under 16 years of age, to whom it was not issued even if they arrived with their parents on repeated occasions, and now only requesting the birth certificate.
Ana Navarroa former Republican, of Nicaraguan parents who fled the country during the Sandinista government in the eighties, compared the Republican candidate Donald Trump with the dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortegawith the Castro dynasty and the Chavista regime of Venezuela.
“Donald Trump and his minions call Kamala (Harris) a communist. I know communism. I fled communism in Nicaragua when I was eight years old. I don’t take it lightly,” said Navarro, who is a political analyst and began her speech by stating that she has never stopped being a Latina refugee child.
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«Let me tell you what dictators do communistsand it’s never just for a day,” he said, referring to the former Republican president’s comment that if he won the presidency again he would be a “dictator” for a day. Navarro listed characteristics of a dictator during the Democratic Party assembly and in front of hundreds of thousands of Americans who support the candidacy of Harris and Walz.
«They attack the free press. They call them enemies of the people, as Ortega does in Nicaragua. They put their unqualified relatives in comfortable government positions so that they can enrich themselves from their positions, like the Castros in Cuba“They refuse to accept legitimate elections when they lose, and they call for violence to stay in power, as Maduro is doing right now in Venezuela,” he said.
The deputies of the National Assembly, at the service of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, unanimously ratified two cooperation agreements with the pro-Russian regime of Belarus, one for mutual cooperation in customs matters and another for credit facilities for the export of goods.
By Legislative Decree number 8887, published in La Gaceta, Official Gazette number 154, on August 21, the deputies subordinate to Ortega approved the agreement between the Nicaraguan regime and its dictatorial counterpart in Belarus on “cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters.”
According to the recitals of the parliamentary decree, the aim of this agreement is to “strengthen the traditional ties of friendship between the peoples and governments of the Republic of Nicaragua and Belarus” so that the respective customs authorities may seek “new avenues focused on the comprehensive control of the movement of goods, transport and people, without restricting or limiting the legitimate facilitation of international trade.”
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The agreement signed by the Ortega and Lukashenko dictatorships, among other aspects, establishes “mechanisms for the exchange of information and surveillance of merchandise, imported and exported between both countries.”
They will maintain special surveillance “on goods transported by persons who, according to information from the requesting customs authority, have committed a customs offence or are suspected of having committed one.”
