The government headed by the dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife, vice-dictator Rosario Murillo, is actually a “mafia group” that has taken over the State and is the one who executes the confiscations in Nicaragua, he affirmed in an interview with Article 66 the economist and political analyst in exile Enrique Sáenz.
On June 23, while Nicaragua celebrated Father’s Day, the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship ordered its Attorney General’s Office and its Police to carry out the search and confiscation of various properties registered in the name of businessman Piero Coen Ubilla and his wife, a national American Jaffa Snow Felber de Coen, which for several analysts is the worst message that Ortega could have sent to foreign investment.
According to Sáenz, the confiscation of the businessman’s properties can only be analyzed from the premise that “in Nicaragua what is known in the international academic environment as a mafia State has been installed.”
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For the analyst, the regime that Ortega has imposed in Nicaragua meets all the requirements of what a mafia State is: “A mafia political group that appropriates and uses all public institutions, including coercive bodies such as the Army and the Police to accumulate wealth and ensure impunity.
“That is what we have in Nicaragua, a mafia group in power, with impunity, that accumulates colossal wealth,” said the exiled economist, who also believes that there are already more than 300 Nicaraguans “stripped of their assets” and this time Ortega is launched against one of the representatives of the great national capital.
The analyst affirms that the latest actions of the Ortega and Murillo regime show that they are acting in the best style of the Sicilian mafias represented by the character Vito Corleone who used to make “offers that cannot be refused” and thus the dictatorship would be trying to blackmail businessmen to turn them into their partners or allies and precisely, according to Sáenz, the confiscation against Coen is a message to other businessmen.
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The economist’s analysis indicates that the Ortega-Murillos, acting as a mafia group, have installed in Nicaragua a set of mechanisms to accumulate wealth fraudulently, openly or covertly, such as participation in the business in the (gold) mines, in electricity, participation in the fuel business. “All of that allows them to accumulate millions of hard and fast dollars every day, they are not bonds, they are not complicated investments, it is hard and cold money,” he explains.
He maintains that these million-dollar profits from Ortega, his family and his accomplices are looking for ways to secure them abroad, in Eastern European countries, in Iran, where they claim to have safe places “to place millions of ill-gotten dollars.”
Likewise, the economist warns that the confiscations point to a dangerous return to the 1980s, when the Sandinista dictatorship, in its first stage, confiscated thousands of properties that to this day continue to be paid for by Nicaraguans, in addition, that the new confiscations will prove to be a fatal stab to the national economy.
