The recent release of political prisoners as a result of silent “negotiations” with the United States, the reforms to penal laws and the internal purges within the State and the FSLN, show the “collapse” of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, says the opposition leader in exile, Dora María Téllez.
On September 5, the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship released and exiled 135 prisoners of conscience from prison, denationalized and confiscated all property, after a secret “negotiation” with the U.S. government, and simultaneously began a process of reforming all criminal laws, including Law 1042, known as the “Cybercrime Law” to increase prison sentences for “spreading fake news” and criminalize the use of social media and cell phone applications.
For guerrilla commander Dora María Téllez, a dissident of the Sandinista Front, released from political prison and exiled by the dictatorship, with their latest actions, the Ortega-Murillo group shows its “extreme cruelty” and at the same time, clear symptoms of “collapse.”
In his weekly analysis of the political and social situation in Nicaragua, released in videos on his social media, Téllez states that the Nicaraguan regime is keeping silent about the release of the latest group of political prisoners because it does not want to acknowledge to its bases that it was the result of “an agreement negotiated with the United States.
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“(The dictatorship) does not want its social base, which has very little left, since according to the latest polls it is around 12%, to lose confidence in Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo,” for negotiating with the United States for several months.
The political leader points out that the denationalization and confiscation of these 135 Nicaraguans is nothing more than “part of the cruelty” of the dictators when confiscating the property of people who can only have “their little house, their little land, that they have their grocery store, that they have their little business.”
Télles reiterates that the dictators have not said anything about the recent releases because they are afraid that the few people who still support them will “turn their backs on them.”
In her analysis, the historian argues that, “what is really happening is that this is a regime that is eroding, that in addition to 36 political prisoners (who are still in jail), there are hundreds who are part of its own regime, imprisoned (in their homes) subjected to no judicial process, isolated, and who belong to the Ortega-Murillo regime itself, which they also want to silence, because it is evidence of the deterioration of the dictatorship.”
Penal reforms are to instill terror
The opposition leader of the political movement Unión democracia Renovadora (Unamos) also claims that the regime is increasing prison sentences for various crimes of which it accuses opponents, as a form of threat that is now being extended to people living outside the country.
“This shows the profound weakness of the Ortega-Murillo regime, which on the one hand remains silent about the fact that it had to release 135 people through negotiations and on the other hand, with the whistle and the drum, is threatening to increase the regime of terror in Nicaragua, if that no longer matters because it is already irrelevant when the regime of terror has already multiplied the level of pressure that it can exert on Nicaraguan society,” warns the opposition analyst.
This whole atmosphere of “terror,” says Téllez, occurs in the midst of an economic crisis that keeps the people “hungry” because the cost of living rises every day, while unemployment grows.
“And they (the dictators) know perfectly well that this is a regime that has no basis of support and that it will continue to crumble from within as it has already been crumbling, if not, why do they have so many prisoners, why so many purges in the judicial system, in the police, in the State institutions, within the Sandinista Front, that is its collapse,” said the former political prisoner.
