The United States Government will pressure multilateral banks to stop approving loans to the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The provision was extended by US President Joe Biden through the memorandum on “Presidential Determination Concerning the Efforts of Foreign Governments Regarding Human Trafficking».
“I direct the chief executive officer of the United States at each multilateral development bank, as defined in the Act, and of the International Monetary Fund, to vote against and make best efforts to deny any loan or other use of the funds of the respective institution (…) for the Governments of Belarus, Burma, Cuba, the People’s Republic of North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Macao (Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China), Nicaragua, the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Sudan South and Syria for fiscal year 2025,” Biden ordered.
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The US president, in the letter, added that as established by his country’s legislation, “they will not provide non-humanitarian and non-trade-related assistance, nor will they allow financing for participation in educational and cultural exchange programs by officials or employees of the governments of Nicaragua, the People’s Republic of China, Russia and Syria.
The measure, Biden specified, will continue “until such governments meet the minimum standards of the Act or make significant efforts to comply with such standards.”
A few months before dying while being kidnapped by his own brother and sister-in-law, the retired Army general and founding chief of the Nicaraguan Army, Humberto Ortega Saavedra (HOS) was harsh and direct when defining the current commander in chief of the military forces. General Julio César Avilés: “He is a coward who does not stop Daniel (Ortega).”
The guerrilla commander Mónica Baltodano, who together with Dora María Téllez were the only two women leaders of troops during the war against the Somoza dictatorship, assured, in the program In Contact, from Article 66 that the late Army general defined Avilés as a coward shortly before his own brother, now converted into dictator, Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, ordered him confined to their residence, under the condition of a house in prison.
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HOS expressed this opinion in a conversation with Commander Baltodano and her husband, Julio López, with whom he routinely held analysis talks about the situation in Nicaragua and possible solutions to the crisis. When addressing the issue of the death under political prison of also a former military officer, General Hugo Torres. The founding chief of the Army maintained that General Avilés “does not stop” the dictator Ortega or the vice-dictator Murillo, who prohibited funeral honors as a general for Torres.
Hugo Torres Jiménez was the only Sandinista guerrilla who had the merit of having participated in the two most emblematic and reckless guerrilla actions of Sandinism during the war against Somoza; the assault on the house of José María Castillo, in 1974, with which Daniel Ortega was released from prison and Operation Chanchera, or Assault on the National Palace in 1978, an action in which he was second in command.
The guerrilla commander said that General Ortega constantly warned that his brother Daniel could not continue doing what he did and that the idea of Murillo being the successor in power and the imposition of a dynasty with children is nothing more than ” “madness” of his sister-in-law.
Against these pretensions, HOS believed that the exit should be a negotiation and trusted in the experience that together with his brother he had in the 80s when Humberto as military chief and Daniel as president, led the process of signing the peace and ending the war between Sandinismo and the army of the counterrevolution.
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The Carter Center presented to the Organization of American States “original minutes” of the elections in Venezuela that “demonstrate” the victory of opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia over Nicolás Maduro.
“I just received what was sent by international mail and I would like to share this with you after the session so that you can see that these are original minutes from Venezuela that have a very significant QR code,” said Jennie K. Lincoln, advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean from the Carter Center.
This code “allowed witnesses, electoral observers from miles and miles of voting centers, to compile information systematically from original data produced by the CNE,” the National Electoral Council added before the Organization of American States. . It’s Washington.
“This is the key point of this election,” Lincoln insisted. The Carter Center was invited to observe the July 28 elections in which President Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed the winner for a third six-year term amid allegations of fraud.
