He died this Monday, September 30, as a political prisoner; the retired army general Humberto Ortega Saavedra (HOS), commander of the Sandinista revolution and brother of the father and mother of the current dictator Daniel Ortega and, therefore, brother-in-law of the vice-dictator Rosario Murillo.
The Military Medical Corps of the Nicaraguan Army (EN), which manages the Alejandro Dávila Bolaños Military Hospital, reported through a brief official note that HOS presented a “cardio-respiratory arrest at 01:55 a.m. this Monday. “He was treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers but he did not come out of that condition, so he was officially declared deceased at 2:30 in the morning.”
The Sandinista commander and founder of the Army was demeaned by his own brother and sister-in-law to such an extent that it was not even the general command of the military that reported his death, nor on behalf of the current military chief. The press release is not even signed by anyone. And the presidency and the Sandinista party of which he was one of the main leaders did not immediately issue notes of mourning as they do for foreign officials who were friends of the dictatorship.
Kidnapped for warning that Murillo is incapable of controlling power after the death of Daniel Ortega
In mid-May of this year, HOS gave statements to the international media INFOBAE in which he stated that, after the eventual death of his brother Daniel Ortega, the government and the Sandinista party would be left headless, since his sister-in-law, the vice-dictator Rosario Murillo Nor would their children have the capacity to control power.
In the same interview, the retired general confirmed that the Nucaragua Army was complicit with the paramilitaries who massacred popular Protestants in the demonstrations and barricades in 2018. Animismo pointed out that after the physical disappearance of his dictator brother, the Army would take the power, displacing Murillo and his family and would call elections.
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Such statements infuriated Ortega and Murillo and a few days later they ordered a raid on the former military man’s house and confiscated any device that would help him communicate with the outside world, while installing a supposed medical team to take care of the 77-year-old general’s health. years old, who suffered from several ailments, including diabetes and heart failure. In addition, the residence was surrounded by police.
Secretly transferred to hospital
On June 9, HOS was transferred to the Military Hospital in total secrecy, however, an anonymous source leaked the information to the media Confidencial, stating that the Sandinista veteran was in poor health, in a private room of the military medical center and Completely isolated and under tight police surveillance.
“His health condition is delicate but stable and he remains under constant medical monitoring,” said the anonymous informant, and since then, neither the presidency nor the armed forces have reported on the condition of the retired Army general.
It was not until the night of this Sunday, September 29, a few hours before his death, that the Army Hospital reported that HOS was in critical condition, which already foreshadowed a fatal outcome, although for some analysts, most likely, the ex-military He could have already been deceased but they only deliberately delayed the news.
They try to detract from HOS’s history while the family asks for respect for their privacy
When addressing all information referring to the founding chief of the current Army, it was so evident that the dictators ordered that merits be detracted from his career that in the official notes, both of the Police and the Army, his military rank of army general or his rank are not mentioned. honorary degree of commander of the revolution, as he was one of the nine commanders of the so-called National Directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
In the official note from the Military Hospital reporting his death, they mention him as just another patient and it was not even signed by any authority from the medical body.
In the same way, he was treated in the official Government note that tries to detract from his career.
For their part, in a “Note of mourning” that circulates on social networks and is attributed to Humberto Ortega’s family, the children and grandchildren report the death of their relative and at the same time ask for respect for their privacy.
Humberto Ortega was 14 months younger than his brother, the dictator Daniel Ortega. According to several biographies about him, he was the one who first joined the FSLN and was close to Carlos Fonseca Amador, the founder of the guerrilla movement, and it was through him that the current tyrant was recruited.
The now deceased army general is credited with having been the strategist and ideologist of the urban popular insurrection, opposing the strategy led by Tomas Borge regarding guerrilla warfare in the mountains.
Furthermore, HOS is also blamed for the idea of putting his brother Daniel at the head of the Government Board of National Reconstruction in 1979, after the fall of the dictator Anastasio Somoza, a proposal that would have been supported by the other 7 commanders of the revolution. , because supposedly Daniel was the one with the least combative merits, the least ambitious and therefore would be more manageable.
Five of those commanders were displaced by the one with the least merit and are now in exile. Only Tomas Borge, now deceased, and Bayardo Arce stayed by the dictator’s side. Humberto Ortega is the third of those nine commanders to die, but he died hostage to his own brother.
