The vice-dictator and soon “co-president” of the Republic, Rosario Murillo, is about to constitutionally become “supreme chief” of the Nicaraguan Army, so the military, from the toughest generals and colonels to the simplest soldiers, will be obliged to stand in front of Murillo and obey as established in the new reformed constitution promoted by the Nicaraguan tyrants.
In accordance with the total constitutional reform, disguised as partial, that the dictator Daniel Ortega ordered his deputies on November 20, the new article 133 establishes that the Government of Nicaragua will now be composed of a co-president and a co-president, who evidently It is about Rosario Murillo with her husband, the tyrant Ortega.
But a few paragraphs before, in article 92, reformed, the dictators order to establish that the Nicaraguan Army is heir to the Sandinista Army and that “it is under the command of the Presidency of the Republic as Supreme Headquarters,” which means that Murillo is supreme chief by being co-president.
Officers “do not see Murillo well” in command
An analyst on military issues and knowledgeable about the relationships between civil authority and armed forces, who agreed to speak with Article 66 On condition of anonymity, he considers that many of the aspects of the constitutional reforms ordered by the dictator Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, have already been implemented in practice and others already existed in lower-level laws.
What is new, explains the expert, is that they are now given constitutional character such as the participation of the Army in quelling riots or in the event of a calamity, which already existed in the Military Code and the Police Law of 2014, and specifically established in what Where soldiers could participate in matters of internal order, it is now completely at the discretion of the co-presidents.
They also confirm and support the existence of the Volunteer Police. “The difference is that they elevate it to constitutional rank and of course give legality to the existence of the paramilitaries,” warns the analyst.
Likewise, the expert warns that by Murillo becoming co-president and thus supreme head of the Army, “Murillo’s authority over the military institution is strengthened and subordination is reinforced.”
But the problem, according to the analyst, is that “surely a part of the military establishment will be comfortable with this, but it is also true that it will generate discomfort among those who do not see Murillo with good eyes.”
They remind the Army of crimes
For the Nicaraguan lawyer and researcher in exile, Martha Patricia Molina, the constitutional reforms of Ortega and Murillo are in reality the annihilation of the country’s constitutional precepts, and furthermore, they reflect in the Constitution that they have tailored to their needs, that the Army Now he is constitutionally Sandinista, and above all, they seal their own Magna Carta that they owe blind obedience, now not only to the tyrant but also to his wife.
Molina highlights that the high danger represented by the fact that the participation of the armed forces in the repression of social protests is now constitutional must be taken into account.
The researcher recalls that in the Constitution that is still in force, “only in exceptional cases” could the President of the Republic, in the Council of Ministers, order the intervention of the Nicaraguan Army “when the stability of the Republic was threatened by major internal disorders, calamities or natural disasters.
After the reforms that are in the process of approval, Ortega and Murillo, either of them, can send the Army into the streets to repress any expression of social discontent.
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Even more dangerous, Molina warns, is that the tyrants, at their discretion, will be the ones who define when the soldiers’ intervention is necessary, which reaffirms that both the Police and the armed forces are a “private guard” of the dictators. , placed entirely at the service of their dynastic family interests.
Likewise, the lawyer and human rights defender points out that, after the new reforms to the Supreme Law, the Army will no longer receive civic and human rights training, “although they have never put it into practice, they have always been murderers and “They have been under the orders of the dictator Ortega and his consort,” Molina accuses.
Likewise, the defender took the opportunity to remind the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Army General Julio César Avilés, that the demand for justice for the crime of the two peasant children, supposedly at the hands of Army troops, is still alive.
“General Julio César Avilés: Where are the bodies of Mrs. Elea Valle’s children that the Army tortured, sexually raped and murdered?” Molina stressed.
