The dictator Daniel Ortega took advantage of a meeting with the president of the Chinese Agency for International Development Cooperation, Luo Zhaohui, at his home in El Carmen, to talk again about the “coup attempt” of 2018, a civic rebellion that the Sandinista regime attributes to an action directed and financed by the United States.
In his speech, the Sandinista caudillo once again insulted the bishops of the Catholic Church, whom he accuses of having read him an “ultimatum”, in which, according to what he narrated, the members of the Episcopal Conference would have asked him to dismantle the institutions of the State, Police and Army.
«All the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua asked us for a Meeting, we received them, and they even read us an Ultimatum. So that? So that we dismantled all the State Powers: the Judicial Power, the Electoral Power, all the State Powers, all, Police, Army, all, and that they gave us a one-week deadline.
He took advantage of his meeting with the Chinese official to rant against the United States, and incidentally referred briefly to the list of political prisoners, which, according to the organizations of victims and relatives of prisoners, would add up to the remaining 35 who were not included among the 222 exiled last year. February 9, plus some 21 that would have been captured during the days of the Greater Week.
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“Now they are inventing that there are more political prisoners, so I tell all those governments, along with the United States, that talk about there being more political prisoners, Give us the list and we’ll send it to you”he said defiantly, with a notable interest in banishing any critic of his government, as the Cuban dictatorship has done for decades, whom Ortega has as his reference for abuses and crimes with impunity.
“Very tense days”
The Sandinista tyrant also confessed that he has spent “very tense days”, although he did not dare to speak of the persecution unleashed against the Catholic Church, whom he prohibited even from Holy Week processions, nor of the 21 new kidnappings, including They include youth leaders, a Catholic singer from Niquinohomo who had been released from prison in 2019, and a journalist who covered religious festivities.
“These days have been very tense because they are the days of the fifth anniversary of the coup attempt, so the Yankee intelligence agencies have made all the attempts that have been and may be to cause another outbreak and they have not been able… Because we have a people that knows what peace means, because we fully recovered peace and we are in a period of growth, of improving the conditions of all Nicaraguan families,” said Ortega.
In his desire to ingratiate himself with China, Ortega also launched into insults against Taiwan, a country with which he broke relations on December 10, 2021. He called it a “Yankee military base” and even said that Taiwan had financed the Contras (armed group anti-Sandinista) in the 1980s.
Although Ortega took advantage of Taiwanese cooperation during the first 14 years of his term, he told the Chinese envoy that his government received invitations to visit Taiwan “but we never agreed to visit that Yankee military base,” he insisted.
