Retired Army General Humberto Ortega Saavedra, brother of the dictator Daniel Ortega, and who also had the status of prisoner under the “home clinic” prison regime, which had been imposed on him by the dictatorship of his sister-in-law and his own brother, is now who is hospitalized in a serious condition, according to the Alejandro Dávila Bolaños Military Hospital, through a press release published by all government propaganda media.
“Today, September 29 at 8:30 am, the patient presented a sudden deterioration in his condition with cardiogenic shock and altered state of consciousness that required intensive therapy treatment to maintain blood pressure levels,” says the official report of the military hospital.
According to the note, Humberto Ortega Saavedra had been admitted to that hospital, owned by the Army, since June 11, 2024, at six fifty in the afternoon.
«The Management of the Military Hospital announces that on June 11, 2024 at 6:50 p.m., the 77-year-old patient Humberto Ortega Saavedra was received from his home accompanied by treating doctors (Dr. Ariel Arguello and Dr. Jesser Rizo) with a history of chronic arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes, wearer of a permanent dual-chamber pacemaker, chronic atrial fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease and exacerbated chronic heart failure,” begins the count of the medical institution.
Direct to Intensive Care
«The treating physicians report the patient’s history of progressive dyspnea that worsened 48 hours before admission, which is why he was brought to this unit… He was received complaining, with a tendency to hypotension, with lung sounds suggestive of worsening heart failure and with data of soft tissue infection in the left lower limb, concluding that the patient had signs of sepsis and heart failure. This led to management of the patient in intensive care due to his serious condition and reserved prognosis,” indicates the official report.
In the note, despite the statement that the health situation of the Sandinista tyrant’s brother is serious and secretive, the military hospital report indicates that the team, made up of specialists and subspecialists, maintains surveillance and treatment of the situation by the military chief. .
Humberto Ortega was sent home to prison, under the imposition of a “clinic” at his home, as an act of political revenge by the two-headed dictatorship of his brother and sister-in-law, days after a interview that the former military chief gave to journalist Fabián Medina, for the Argentine media Infobaein which he criticized the dictatorial verticalism of Sandinismo and suggested the opening of a dialogue, while making it clear that in the governing party, the FSLN, there is no figure who can assume the succession when Daniel Ortega dies.
«When there is an authoritarian, dictatorial type of power like the current one, which depends greatly on the figure of a leader who exercises the Presidency, in the absence of this, it is very difficult for there to be continuity of the immediate power group. For what reason? Because the same authoritarian, personalist, top-down tendency to command has castrated the transmission belts of the party. The party currently has no spare. They are there, not because of a mystique, but because they are there as officials, many wanting to do good, but most of all, having benefits from that governmental and political participation. “If Daniel Ortega is missing, for me, Humberto Ortega, there is no possibility that anyone from that power group can exert influence in a process…” Humberto told Infofabe.
“Not even Rosario Murillo?” Medina asked him. “Nobody. Nobody. I don’t want to mention anyone in particular. Without Daniel there is no one, because, with everything and everything, Daniel is the only historical leader who still retains the credits of that fight. Without Daniel I find it very difficult for there to be two or three who get together. Much less one in particular, and more difficult in the family. Children who have not had the accumulation of a political struggle. Not even Somoza could establish his son. With Daniel’s absence it would be very fragile to sustain everything that until now has been managed with great effort and enormous complexities. Not only internally, but also with the allied forces of the left and the governments of the region. “The only one they know is Daniel.”
On May 21, 2024, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) and the Sandinista Police they released a statement to report that “a medical team made up of specialists from the MINSA and private family doctors “has visited and assessed the health condition of Ortega Saavedra, in his residence.”
ANDl report claimed that a cardiologisteither head office carried out “all necessary assessments” and ruled that HOS remained “stable in his condition of Coronary Patientand other conditions typical of their age and underlying illnesses.
Although the MINSA stated at that time that the dictator’s brother had “good health conditions”, a Specialized Medical Care Unit would stay “to take care of the ailments that have afflicted and afflict the General Ortega», with which house arrest was imposed under the pretext of medical care.
Declarations of death
Before the interview with Infobae, Humberto Ortega published an opinion article in the newspaper La Prensa, in which he warned of the possibility that the United States, if it deemed it essential, could carry out a “surgical, lightning” military operation to overthrow his brother, suggesting that the Sandinista dictatorship could end with a US military invasion similar to what happened against Manuel Antonio Noriega, in Panama, in 1989.
