The vice-dictator of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, brought out her extreme cynicism by declaring herself supposedly sad at the death of her brother-in-law, Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whom she kept deprived of liberty and isolated, still in his dying bed in the Military Hospital, for more than 4 months. While the Nicaraguan Army, after ignoring the situation of the retired general, issued a note filling him with praise, until he was already dead. In neither case did they issue an “official note of mourning”, but rather a press release.
During his monologue on Monday, through the official propaganda media, Murillo began his reference to the death of his brother-in-law, with whom it was publicly known that he had serious differences since the 80s, expressing that “life comes to us, life is what it is”, and then say that in Nicaragua life is celebrated “with all its crossroads.” He then assured that he had been monitoring Humberto Ortega’s health since yesterday (Saturday, September 28) and that early today (September 30) he was informed of his death as a result of cardiac arrest.
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Faced with such news, the vice dictator said that “as a family” she is also sad about the death of whom she finally called a “retired army general”, after she and her husband, the dictator Daniel Ortega, called him a traitor several times. .
“As a family that we are, we join in the sadness of the physical departure,” said Murillo, after ensuring that immediately after learning of the general’s death, he informed his family, through Óscar Humberto, one of the sons, about the death.
None of his relatives could be with the patient in his dying bed, because, according to information leaked to the media, due to prohibitions by Murillo herself and her husband Daniel Ortega, HOS’s wife who was in Nicaragua could not accompany him in the room where they had him kidnapped.
They called him a traitor, but when he died they recognized his “merits”
Dictator Daniel Ortega publicly accused his brother Humberto Ortega of “treason” and even accused him of defending terrorists.
In August 2021, after HOS suggested to his brother to release political prisoners, during an event celebrating the anniversary of the Naval Force, the dictator said that his brother, while he was commander in chief of the Army, in 1992, committed treason. to the country and dedication to the North American empire by decorating an American soldier. In addition, he accused him of being a protector of terrorists.
Then, in May of this year, after the retired military man said that after the death of his dictator brother, there would be a power vacuum and that his sister-in-law would be unable to control the party and the government, the tyrant once again called him a traitor and this At the same time, he was also sentenced to prison, after raiding his residence and stripping him of all possibility of communication with the outside world.
In June they secretly transferred him alone to a room in the Military Hospital where they left him to agonize and die, depriving him of the possibility of being accompanied by his family in his last moments.
Despite all this inhuman treatment, Murillo dedicated himself to repeating the press release published by the Government, referring to the death of HOS, ensuring that they recognize the contributions of the deceased to the Sandinista revolution.
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«In announcing his death we remember the strategic contribution of General Ortega as a Sandinista militant since his adolescence, his bravery in revolutionary military actions such as the rescue of Commander Carlos Fonseca Amador in Costa Rica, where he was shot and lost the physical mobility of his upper part. his body,” read the vice dictator of her deceased brother-in-law, with whom she had not even spoken for years.
And he added that “the Government of reconciliation and national unity, the Sandinista National Liberation Front and the Nicaraguan people, value their contribution to the stages of clandestine, guerrilla, insurrectional struggle, and in the initial formation, and leadership, of the Nicaraguan Army.” during the cruel years of counterrevolutionary war imposed by the United States of America.
Army says it recognizes HOS leadership
Meanwhile, the General Command of the Army, which ignored the HOS situation, issued a belated press release, without daring to title it as an official note of mourning, to say that they recognize the now deceased retired army general as their commander in chief. founder.
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«The General Command of the Nicaraguan Army, the Corps of Generals, Superior Officers, Junior Officers, Classes, Soldiers, Sailors, Pilots and Auxiliary Personnel of the Nicaraguan Army, deeply regret the sensitive death this September 30, 2024, of the General of Army in the honorable condition of retirement Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whom we recognize as founder of the Sandinista Popular Army today the Nicaraguan Army, as well as for his exemplary and patriotic performance at the head of our institution in the capacity of Commander in Chief of the Nicaraguan Army.explains the military note.
Likewise, they assure that they have “respect and recognition for retired General Ortega for his contributions in the organization and development of the Nicaraguan Army and the successful conduct of military operations to confront the war of aggression imposed by the Government of the United States against the people of Nicaragua.
In May of this year, in an interview with the media Infobae, HOS assured that when the dictator Ortega dies, Murillo nor his children will be able to control power and in the face of this vacuum, the Army, which now recognizes his respect, will take power. and will call elections. Could it have been the general’s last order to the institution he founded? It would remain to be seen.
