The Police of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ordered a new attack against journalists, opposition activists, leaders of the Peasant Movement and even couples of exiled local leaders.
Among those captured in the early hours of the night of this Wednesday, May 3, are the journalist william aragon, originally from Somoto, Madrid. According to local media reports, Aragón was arrested in a house that he rented in the city of Estelí (North).
The reporter was for many years the correspondent for the newspaper La Prensa in northern Nicaragua, but for months he was “low profile” and out of the news coverage, precisely to avoid jail.
In the city of Rivas, the police forces raided the house of Octavio Ortega Aranaformer leader of the Peasant Movement in that city, whom, according to neighbors, the Police had difficulty getting into a patrol car, because several months ago, Ortega Arana had his right leg amputated as a result of diabetes.
Furthermore, Mrs. Marycruz Bermudez, mother of Richard Pavón, the first young man killed during the April rebellion (on April 19, 2019). Marycruz is a member of the Mothers of April Association (AMA), and lives in Tipitapa, Managua.
A fourth detainee was Harold Antonio Gonzalez, from the municipality of San Pedro de Lóvago, Chontales. González’s arrest was confirmed by the opposition leader from Masaya Yubrank Suazo.
In Jinotega the arrest of Humberto Hernandez. In Chinandega, the Police took Mongolian Rose, wife of opponent Yuri Mongalo, whom the Police were looking for, and when they could not find him because he is in exile in the United States, they decided to take her spouse.
was also arrested Nelson Treminioin Chinandega; Theresa Mena, in Chontales; Noel Lopez, from New Guinea; Dimas Orozcofrom Estelí; tamara ruizfrom Jinotega; Ruth Espinoza, in Somoto; and in Madrid, the opposition Danelia Arguelloa well-known anti-Sandinista leader in Somoto, who in previous months had been subjected to harassment and threats by pro-government groups.
According to some exiled opponents, for now the list of those imprisoned could exceed 30, but they are still trying to find out in detail each of the names.
The Blue and White Monitoring made an alert publication through its Twitter account, in which they warned of “arrests and searches throughout the country”, without specifying the names or number of the new prisoners of Daniel Ortega.
Article 66 He learned in a preliminary way that until the closing of this edition there are at least 30 detainees. We have not been able to confirm the exact data, but if confirmed, the Sandinista dictatorship would be increasing its list of political hostages to more than 85, which confirms the thesis of the “revolving door”, which some of the political leaders who were released on February 9 and exiled to the United States.
The activists have warned that the Daniel Ortega regime will once again try to fill the prisons in order to have new negotiating cards in the face of the intensification of international pressure.
