The Nicaraguan poet and persecuted politician of the Ortega-Murillo regime Gioconda Belli was infected with COVID-19 last weekend, as she herself disclosed on her Facebook social network page this Monday, June 13.
Gioconda Belli is in exile in Madrid, Spain: and this weekend she participated in the 81st edition of the Madrid Book Fair and signed books on Friday, June 10, and Saturday, June 11, the latter presenting symptoms such as headache and body, chills, fever and body aches.
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«In the booth of Librería Lé, where I was signing, according to the tradition of the Book Fair, it was almost nine o’clock at night on Saturday the 11th when I felt that my head became independent of my neck and was filled with clouds and bees. It wasn’t dizziness exactly. It was feeling indefinitely bad. Air, buzzing when looking to one side or the other, “said the writer.
“Upon arriving at my house the heat turned into cold. I spent the night bundled up, shaken by chills of fever. The COVID test was negative on Saturday and Sunday. The fever did not go away and I looked for explanations: heat wave, some minor infection. The fever did not go away, nor the cold, nor the pain in the body. On Sunday I started coughing. Monday: cold. Another COVID test. This time, positive », he continued.
Belli left Nicaragua in May 2021, remaining out of the country due to the repressive escalation of the Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime against the opposition that intensified on the eve of the November 7 elections. The novelist explained that she will return to the country when she returns freedom and free expression to Nicaragua.
The Nicaraguan writer pointed out in November 2021 that Ortega’s spokeswoman, Rosario Murillo, manipulates the truth and tells “lies without her face wrinkling. It is irrational. The level of manipulation of her cannot be normal ». She affirms that the presidential couple handles a well-studied psychological profile, especially by Murillo who seemed to “use the methods of Nazi Germany.”
The country has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which has worsened in the face of the general elections on November 7, in which the dictator Daniel Ortega was re-elected for a fifth presidential term, fourth in a row, and second together. with his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo.
