The executive president of the National Electric Transmission Company (Enatrel), Salvador Mansell, revealed that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has installed a total of 200 “trees of life” throughout Nicaragua.
Each of these “trees of life”, also known as “chayopalos” or “arbolatas”, according to an investigation by Confidencial, published in 2013, is valued at “more than 20 thousand dollars”, this without including the waste they demand. in electrical energy and security.
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The waste on these 200 metal structures, taking into account the estimated price of each of these, would have been about 4 million dollars.
“We already have 200 trees of life installed nationwide and we continue installing (…) We ended December installing and we continue reviewing, just as we install them, we take care of them,” said Mansell in an interview for a video podcast of media controlled by the dictatorship.
They will install “arbolatas” in each department
In addition, he assured that they have installed “tree trees” in the border areas with Costa Rica and Honduras, between those El Espino and Las Manos. Also, they have located “chayopalos” on roundabouts near the entrances of the country’s departments.
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Mansell announced that they plan to install these metal structures in Bluefields, Bilwi and in the Mining Triangle, in the Caribbean of Nicaragua.
The Ortega head of Enatrel assured that the installation of “arbolatas” in the country will advance as does the installation of electrical energy networks “from border to border and from coast to coast.”
Since the first installations of “arbolatas” in 2013, the Ortega regime has hidden how much each of these structures costs, the amounts they spend on energy expenditure and the security that they have placed at the foot of those metal structures since those years.
The vice dictator of Nicaragua and spokesperson for the Sandinista Front, Rosario Murillo, considered the main promoter of the installation of the “arbolatas” in the country, this year ordered the reinstallation of dozens of the structures that in 2018, during social protests, Nicaraguans demolished to demand democracy, justice and freedom.
