Daniel Ortega’s regime resolved by presidential decree to reward the Nicaraguan Army with a new property in the search to “safeguard state assets,” according to the publication in the official newspaper The Gazette.
According to presidential decree number 71-2022, Ortega ordered the Attorney General’s Office to “appear before the State Notary to sign a public deed of donation in favor of the Nicaraguan Army” of a real estate located in Barrio Dos Mil , in the urban area of the municipality of Cruz de Río Grande, in the Autonomous Region of the South Caribbean Coast».
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The property now owned by the Army has a total area of 9,570 square meters and is registered with cadastral number 8405-4093-1024-18. Article two of the agreement argues that the Nicaraguan Attorney General’s Office should include said transfer as “a donation in order to safeguard the interests of the State of the Republic of Nicaragua.” It is not specified for what purpose these lands will be used.
Since 2020, the regime has given away around 10 properties to the operators of the repression. Previously, the Presidency donated properties located in Chinandega (3), León (1), San Rafael del Sur (1), Boaco (1), Jinotepe, Carazo (1) Managua (1) and now Matagalpa (1), Rosita, North Caribbean Coast (1).
The Army institution is still not sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury, but its main bosses are, as in the case of General Julio César Avilés, head of the military institution, and Colonel Julio Modesto Rodríguez Balladares, director of the Military Social Welfare Institute (IPSM).
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Similarly, Bayardo de Jesús Pulido, a member of the Army, and Bayardo Ramón Rodríguez, chief of the General Staff; they were sanctioned by the US on January 10, the day Ortega took office to govern “illegitimately” for another five years.
The opposition calls the Army an accomplice of the Daniel Ortega regime and for having remained silent in the face of the murders of Nicaraguans in the context of the sociopolitical crisis. Paul Reichler, former international legal adviser to the dictatorship, alleges that the Nicaraguan Army “became a disgrace” for submitting to the orders of the Daniel Ortega dictatorship and failing to protect Nicaraguans.
He stressed that the military institution, in the 1980s and 1990s, represented the transformation and consolidation of democracy in Nicaragua. «The Nicaraguan Army was something very special, responsible with the government of Doña Violeta (Barrios de Chamorro) and Antonio Lacayo for the democratic transformation, the consolidation of democracy, the supremacy of the law, the Nicaraguan Army was a model within of a democratic system, a source of national pride.
