commissioner general Zhukov Serrano Perez, The recently promoted deputy director of the Police who served as head of intelligence for years in the shadows, answered in whispers when the dictator Daniel Ortega asked him where he had prepared himself when presenting him in public during a promotion of cadets, held this Monday, December 19 in Managua.
“In the Federation,” Ortega urged to respond to the high official who studied for two years in Russia, minutes before mentioning that his name was that of a marshal of that country and also exalting Ramón, also deputy general director, as a “hero.” Avellán, pointed out by the international community as the main executor of “Operation Cleanup”, when the executive brutally repressed peaceful protesters in 2018.
According to the dictator, at that time the Police and hazelnut They demonstrated their discipline of “not shooting” when the Masaya barracks were surrounded for days, complying with an order that sought, according to him, “to prevent a greater tragedy than the one that the terrorists were already causing.”
Ortega praised his most repressive team within the police leadership, made up of Avellán and Serrano Pérez, who took over as head of the General Commissioner Adolfo Marenco at the end of last November, coming from the police intelligence area.
This team was recently joined by the retired general commissioner Horace Rocha, who yesterday was presented from the rostrum as the ruler’s new advisory minister for security issues. This is another of the notable changes made by the executive, which shows that there is an erosion in the closest circles of Ortega.
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Contrary to being kind to the Police, Ortega took the opportunity to once again attack the Catholic Church, which his regime has maintained under tenacious persecution for four years, after Catholic clergymen denounced human rights abuses and received the victims in the temples.
On December 13, the Prosecutor’s Office accused the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, for the crimes of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity” and “propagation of false news”, who thus became the first bishop of the Church in being imprisoned in the history of Nicaragua.
The other critical voice, Monsignor Silvio José Báez, has been in exile since 2019, at the request of Pope Francis, after receiving threats from Ortega fanatics.
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The 38 new Police cadets dedicated their promotion to Gaspar García Laviana, a Spanish priest and guerrilla who fought against the Somoza dynasty and died in combat with the National Guard on December 11, 1978. In this context, Ortega revived his attacks against the current Catholic hierarchy.
“Those priests, those bishops, and I say this as a Christian, I grew up in a Catholic, Christian family, but I learned over time that, after all, behind a cassock is a human being, the cassock is not makes no one holy, the habit does not make the monk”, said the tyrant.
He repeated without evidence that the priests came out calling for bloodshed in 2018, after “manipulating the saints” and assured that the attackers from the Police headquarters came out of temples, “not from all of them, but from some where they were.” the Pharisees, the whitewashed tombs”, he stated without mentioning names of the religious who supposedly encouraged the protesters.
The intensification of the repression has occurred in 2022, while the questions of the Vatican for its timid reaction are increasing. Last December 17, on the occasion of his 86th birthday, Pope Francis said that the arms of the Holy See are the “dialogue and diplomacy”.
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Ortega said that Christ was his inspiration to fight for the poor, because he maintained that he saw that the son of God had come down to earth “to fight for” the poor, not for the rich, not for the capitalists, not for the empire. Roman, which is equivalent to the Yankee empire in these times.
During his speech, he did not refer to the judicial processes orchestrated against Monsignor Álvarez, while 12 other religious are also being prosecuted, Catholic media outlets have been closed, the apostolic nuncio was expelled from the country, as were 18 nuns of the order of the Missionaries of Charity.
Vice President Rosario Murillo supported Ortega’s words. She declared herself “moved” by the tour that was made of the days of 2018, because, according to her, it is difficult to accept “so much evil or evil in some hearts.”
Despite her remorseful tone, Murillo was denounced at the time as the one who gave the order to “let’s go with everything”, justifying the repression that left 355 dead, more than 2,000 injured and plunged the country into one of the most serious crises. of human rights in the region.
“It is difficult to accept it and even more difficult to understand that some of these characters say, say, or have said, or still say they are people of faith,” added Murillo, who was also sanctioned by the international community.
Thus the number two of the regime gave continuity to the hate speech that they maintain against the Catholic Church. For Murillo, there is a Somocista legacy that impregnated some Nicaraguans with hatred and that is part of a philosophy where they believe they are superior and with the right to oppress, exalt, exclude, which was blessed at the time by people who said they were of faith. he warned.
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The general director of the Police, the first commissioner Francisco Díaz Madriz, reciprocated Ortega’s praise. He thanked out loud for “his leadership and successful conduct” and the unconditional support offered to fulfill his mission.
Díaz Madriz, in-law of the dictatorial couple, explained that the mission of the institution is to “defend peace and security”, while ratifying the “loyalty and obedience to our Supreme Headquarters”, in reference to Ortega and Murillo.
