Daniel Ortega’s regime is about to unleash another diplomatic conflict, this time with Panama, whose Government has placed the Sandinista embassy in that country under “warning” for having become a center of political plot against the canal authorities, directed by former president Ricardo Martinelli, asylum in that diplomatic headquarters.
During a meeting with national and international journalists, the president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, reported that his Government has called the Nicaraguan ambassador in that country to express through her to the Ortega Foreign Ministry his displeasure with the activities and expressions of the former president. Ricardo Martinelli from the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City.
Martinelli has been in asylum since February of this year, after being persecuted by that country’s justice system for several cases of corruption during his term (2009-2014).
Diplomatic relations between the governments of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega and Panamanian José Raúl Mulino are in visible deterioration after the Sandinistas decided to shelter Martinelli in the Nicaraguan embassy in the Canal country as a political asylum.
However, the former president and the Managua regime have broken all the rules of international law regarding asylums, as they have turned the diplomatic headquarters into a kind of political command center for Martinelli, who has expressed his opinion and participated in his country’s politics since the protection provided by its diplomatic refuge.
Parishioners from the municipalities of Estelí, Madriz, Matagalpa, León, Managua, Nueva Segovia and Jinotega denounced, before Article 66that the homilies are being widely monitored by public servants and fanatics of the Sandinista regime, which orders them to be placed in the first and last rows of the temple pews to write down any mention that is critical or contrary to Ortega’s regime, as well as to photograph the attendees. .
The sources report that among the public officials who have been seen carrying out surveillance in Catholic temples there are collaborators from mayors’ offices, the Ministry of Education (Mined) and the Sandinista Youth. These, in addition to photographing the parishioners, constantly take images of the priests who officiate or assist at masses.
«Apparently each parish priest already knows about the strategy of the dictatorship, because there are good people who tell them, and that is why there is a great silence in the Church, not being able to relate anything with politics, issues of justice, peace and freedom in his homilies,” indicated one of those consulted.
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In addition, he mentioned that these people who are sent to monitor are “attentive to the words of the parish priest, especially on Sundays when there is a larger congregation of faithful.”
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) delivered a petition to the State of Costa Rica to stop a judicial process of extradition of the Nicaraguan opposition farmer Reinaldo Picado Miranda and set a maximum period of four months for the Costa Rican government to respond to said request. This was reported by the peasant leader Medardo Mairena, through social networks.
The petition made by the IACHR, at the request of opponents, criticizes the “arbitrary detention and lack of due process of the right to international protection, refuge or asylum in Costa Rica, of citizen Reinaldo Picado Miranda, who is subject to extradition by the Ortega-Murillo Sandinista regime,” Mairena published.
Picado was accused by the Ortega dictatorship of “terrorism” after participating in the anti-government protests in 2018, he entered Costa Rica that same year and an extradition order was issued against him, so the Costa Rican government captured him and He is currently detained at the Gerardo Rodríguez Echeverría Center.
