After the delivery ceremony of the first batch of Russian buses, on the night of Tuesday, January 31, the Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, used her propaganda media to once again recall the protests of April 2018 and rant against the opposition. from Nicaragua.
In her brief speech, the first lady referred to Avenida de Bolívar a Chávez, the place where the 150 transport units were delivered, and which, according to her, from there —in 2018— her regime “sang for peace.”
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“In this same place, day after day we would gather to sing and to reject with all our might aggression, destruction, hatred, evil, perversion, greed and servitude,” said the deputy dictator.
Anticipating the anniversary of the civic rebellion five years ago, protests that were massacred by the Ortega Police and which left more than 300 murdered, the president said that “this April is victorious because the people fought and won.”
«(…) they could not and will not be able to, because Nicaragua wants and has peace; because Nicaragua wants and has a development path with social justice, fraternity, solidarity, values, family, and community,” he added.
Alluding to opponents of his dictatorship, Murillo ranted and stated that the “servile spirit of a few wicked Nicaraguans who betrayed their homeland”, They attempted, according to her, a failed coup attempt.
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The spokesperson for the Ortega regime affirmed that the only thing his dictatorship does is “fight to restore peace to Nicaraguans who believe in the mandate of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ our Lord who tells us that we must love one another, that we must be neighbors and live as brothers and that we must build and defend peace every day.
“Here God has blessed us with a free, sovereign homeland and a heroic and glorious people who defend their land inch by inch, because we have defended our sacred land where we deserve to live in peace,” Murillo concluded.
On April 18, Nicaragua marks the fifth anniversary of the social protests that began in 2018 and were repressed by the Police and paramilitaries, leaving dozens of assassinated, political prisoners, and thousands of exiles. To date, the dictator Ortega has imprisoned more than 230 opponents, including 12 Catholic priests.
