The altars on Bolívar Avenue that in the last ten years the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has ordered to be installed with the money of Nicaraguans, through the budget assigned to each State institution, will be completed later than usual, but each institution has already begun to disseminate the designs.
At least 36 state institutions and companies shared, through official media, their designs for altars that they will place along the avenue that the government has renamed Avenida de Bolívar a Chávez.
These 36 state entities have published their designs, but only three of those institutions shared part of the funds that they will allocate for these structures on the official website of the General Directorate of State Contracting, known as the Electronic Administrative Contracting System (Siscae), as confirmed Article 66.
Among the institutions that will spend on altars and shared their designs in official media are the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MTI), Ministry of the Interior (Mint), Ministry of Health (Minsa), National Police, Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources ( Marena), Nicaraguan Institute of Tourism (Intur), National System for the Prevention, Mitigation and Attention of Disasters (Sinapred), Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology (Inta), Nicaraguan Food Company Basics (Enabas), the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), Ministry of Defense (Midef), Chancellery of Nicaragua, Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN) and the Nicaraguan Aqueduct and Sewer Company (Enacal).
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Also, the Ministry of Education (Mined), Ministry of Family Economy (Mefcca), National Technical and Technological Institute (Inatec), Ministry of Labor (Mitrab), Institute of Agricultural Protection and Health (IPSA), Ministry of the Family, Institute Nicaraguan Telecommunications and Post Office (Telcor), Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (MHCP), Ministry of Agriculture (MAG), National Lottery, Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce (Mific), Iniser Insurance Company, Nicaraguan Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Inpesca), Nicaraguan Oil Company (Petronic), Nicaraguan Gas Company (Enigas), Nicaraguan Institute of Energy (INE), National Assembly, Ministry of Youth (Minjuve), National Port Company (EPN) and the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM).
“Arbolatas” included in the designs of altars to the Virgin Mary
The designs disclosed by the institutions controlled by the dictatorship, in open servility to the tastes of Vice President Rosario Murillo, include the “trees of life”, metal hulks that have become an emblem of the government, but that different analysts of The symbolism is identified as an esoteric representation, in accordance with the occult practices of the first lady.
The institutions that included “arbolatas” in their designs were the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit. Both public entities, although they disclose designs of the altars they will install, hide in Siscae their acquisitions related to that expense.
Article 66 verified that only the General Directorate of Customs Services reported hiring related to the creation of its altar on Avenida Bolívar. While the Minsa and Inatec disclosed purchasing processes related to the preparation of altars, however, nowhere does it specify whether these corresponded to the one that will be erected on that capital avenue.
In the case of the DGA, although it reported the expense as “acquisition of materials for altars on Avenida Bolívar, it maintains it as “current”, so it does not specify who it was awarded to and what amount was paid for that purchase.
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The Minsa disclosed two minor contract purchasing processes: 79/2024 and 77/2024, in which it located the description “purchase of the service for making altars for the end of the year 2024” and “purchase of materials for making altars end of year 2024”, both are still in progress and were closed last October.
The first process was awarded for an amount of 22,990 córdobas to Yessi Johana Adams Castillo and the second for an amount of 65,510 córdobas to Arleth Antonia García Blandón. The documents reviewed by this media confirmed that these expenses were not related to the altar on Avenida Bolívar, but to an altar that will be located at the Minsa headquarters in Jinotega.
Inatec also reported spending on altars, but did not locate the amount it will spend on Avenida Bolívar. Awarded minor contract 107/2024, related to “preparation of altars for year-end festivities 2024” to Mara Azucena López Medalfor an amount of 49,500 córdobas, for raising the altar that they will place at their headquarters in the Arlen Siu Technological Center, located in El Sauce, León.
Other institutions that reported their expenses on altars, although they did not locate them on Bolívar Avenue, were the mayors of Achuapa, León, San Lorenzo, El Coral and the Comandante Padre Gaspar García Laviana National University, which was installed on the buildings stolen from the Autonomous Christian University of Nicaragua (UCAN).
Although at this time the total cost of each altar they build on Avenida Bolívar is a secret, in 2016, a former contractor identified as Noemí Pavón Gallard, who reported to the media that she had been removed from the business due to maneuvers by the Secretary of the Mayor of Managua, Fidel Moreno, and some of her partners, and that they had not paid her for some contracts, revealed that these colorful structures exceeded 25 thousand dollars , back then.
Pavón Gallard, upset because her business had gone ahead, showed the newspaper The Press some contracts, for which it was learned that only in the construction of five altars and a gigantic nativity scene, the treasury would have paid around 250 thousand dollars, which at the 2024 exchange rate, would be almost 322 thousand dollars.
