A dozen Nicaraguans exiled in Coast delicious protested this Tuesday in front of the offices of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, in San José, for granting credits to the government of Daniel Ortega.
One of the protesters chained himself to the access door of the CABEI headquarters while clamoring for credits to the Government of Managua.
The Nicaraguan opposition member Héctor Mairena, exiled in Coast deliciousexplained to AFP that they consider the president of CABEI, Dante Mossi, an “accomplice of the dictatorship of the Ortega and (his wife and vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario) Murillo.”
Nicaragua, according to data from CABEI itself, is the country that receives the most resources from the institution. They put money “under the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, without there being a justification for that,” said Mairena, 63, a journalist and lawyer.
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CABEI maintains 33 investment projects in Nicaragua for an amount of 1,586 million dollars, according to the bank, among them the study of the financing of a deep-water port in the coast of the Caribbean sea.
In addition to Central America, the institution finances projects in a dozen countries in the rest of the Americas, as well as in Spain, Taiwan and South Korea.
Mairena is one of the 94 Nicaraguans to whom the Nicaraguan Justice withdrew their nationality on February 15. Among them, the writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli.
At the beginning of February, Ortega freed 222 imprisoned opponents, deported them to the United States and also stripped them of their Nicaraguan nationality.
Nicaragua toughened its laws to punish opponents in the context of the repression that followed a political and social crisis with street protests that broke out in 2018 against Ortega, in power since 2007 and successively reelected in contested elections.
