A group of opposition organizations, in exile and within Nicaragua, rejected the fact that Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo are establishing a neoliberal dictatorship in the country, as dissident Sandinistas and opponents accused recently at the Sao Paulo Forum, and clarified that the presidential couple consolidates a “fascist” regime with “Stalinist” nuances due to the dictator’s Marxist training.
Through a statement released by the leader of the Peasant Movement and political prisoner, Medardo Mairena, the opposition entities point out that a totalitarian dictatorship is installed in Nicaragua.
During the Sao Paulo Forum, a group of Sandinista veterans, now dissidents and victims of the repression carried out by the Nicaraguan regime, sent a letter accusing Ortega of being the “worst of dictators” and accusing him of being neoliberal. .
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«Daniel Ortega and what remains of the Sandinista Front present themselves as leftists and anti-imperialists, however, far from that proclaimed discourse, for many years they have begun a process of abandoning their principles, through corruption, alliances with the worst right of the country, strengthening of a neoliberal model that increases the already enormous inequalities and extreme poverty of the population, concentration of political and economic power in his family and close friends”, underlined the opponents at the Sao Paulo Forum
Faced with this accusation, the entities, including the Peasant Movement, FDN, Congress for Unity, Nicaraguans in Exile, Confederation of Nicaraguans Abroad and Civic Alliance for National Unity, among others, mention that “there is no in his totalitarian regime (of Ortega) nothing similar to a liberal regime or a deviation such as neoliberalism.
They stress that there is no liberalism without freedom and in Nicaragua there is not even free enterprise but rather a monopolistic practice in favor of the interests of the family in power. They also emphasize that the management of the macroeconomics carried out by the Ortega-Murillo government is nothing more than a method of balancing national accounts and maintaining monetary stability, often with high social costs and that practice has no ideology.
«The police state, the concentration of power, espionage, the restriction of press freedom, the hegemonic party, the persecution of the Catholic Church and the enrichment of an exclusive minority, are practices of Marxism-Leninism taken to the maximum in its version stalinist. Ortega, and therefore his misrule, is of a fascist type in which he has mixed Marxist-Leninist theory, no longer to justify a dictatorship for the benefit of a marginalized social class, but to benefit a corrupt family group, eager to develop a totalitarian model. of savage family capitalism”, say the opposition organizations.
They also remark that they understand that the left itself “is ashamed of a regime like the one implanted by Ortega in Nicaragua”, but, they insist, there is no neoliberalism in Nicaragua but rather a “fascist” dictatorship, and recalls that “it is convenient to call things by his name, not to attack the liberal ideology that in Nicaragua has never been applied correctly, less now with Ortega.”
“Liberalism is liberating, it is committed to the improvement of men and women without exclusion, with equal opportunities,” say the opponents.
Likewise, they positively valued the fact that the dissidents and victims of Ortega’s repression have sent the letter of complaint against Ortega to the Sao Paulo Forum, but they believe that it is necessary to make it clear that what is happening in Nicaragua, which does not respond to ideological currents, but “to the interests of a couple who manage the powers of the state to their liking and whim for their sole benefit.”
