In a brief message published on its social networks, the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep) announced that it is accompanying its executives imprisoned by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in “prayer” since June 2021, when the regime undertook a hunt that ended with more than 40 opponents in jail.
In the statement dated June 8, the union organization supports the insistence of the relatives of political prisoners to start a dialogue with the regime of Daniel Ortega with the opposition and the Catholic Church.
This “support” from the bosses is the first public support for the relatives of the detainees prior to the general elections of 2021, elections in which Ortega was re-elected without competition because he sent the leaders to jail.
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Despite the repeated denunciations of the inhuman and torture conditions in which Michael Healy, Álvaro Vargas, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, José Adán Aguerri, Luis Rivas and Juan Lorenzo Holmann find themselves, César Zamora’s Cosep has not spoken at any time to demand from the regime their release or the minimum conditions for persons deprived of their liberty.
After the captivity of Healy and Vargas and the assumption of Zamora in the presidency, the union has remained silent in the face of the regime’s abuses against its own members or the opposition, the same style that the bosses and the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship maintained under the model of «alliance and consensus» that ended after the crisis of April 2018.
Defender of the public-private partnership
The only time that COSEP, under the command of Zamora, has ruled on the cases of José Adán Aguerri, Michael Healy and Álvaro Vargas, was at the end of October 2021, a week after the arrest of Healy and Vargas, then president and vice president of the private sector.
César Zamora is known for being one of the partners and defenders of the business of the private company with the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. As a result of the rupture of the businessmen’s alliance with Daniel Ortega, the new leader has kept a low profile and throughout this period from 2018 to date, he has not spoken out against the regime or the current situation in the country.
The criticism against Zamora has not been long in coming due to his affinity with the Ortega regime, however the short video in which COSEP demands the freedom of its three union members, expresses the line of this organization that nine months later becomes to pronounce when talking about dialogue with the regime.
