The police violence after the questioned municipal votes has left some 10 young people detained in the Caribbean of Nicaragua, reported the Youth and Student Unit (UJE) in a Press conference.
The arrests were registered in the municipalities of Bilwi and Waspam, where the social demonstrations have been concentrated due to the failed counting of the votes that designates the official Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and all the mayors’ offices in those municipalities and all the country.
The opposition organization points out that the Sandinista dictatorship “has lost popular support in the peoples of the Caribbean Coast” and that this was reaffirmed in the abstentionism and rejection in the elections on November 6. “The power that this authoritarian regime exercises over indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples is only legitimized through the use of violence, repression and censorship,” he highlights.
“10 leaders detained in Bilwi and Waspám, after a day of protests in the Nicaraguan Caribbean, police surveillance is maintained in different areas of the Nicaraguan Caribbean, due to the day of protests against electoral fraud,” denounced the UJE.
Opponents point out that since Saturday, November 12, the Caribbean Coast, especially Bilwi, has been immersed in a serious context of repression that has led to the arrest, assault, and persecution of dozens of citizens, mainly indigenous and Afro-descendant youth.
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“We call for help to the international community to activate its responsibility to protect the populations of the State of Nicaragua when it is evident that it is unable to do so, Ortega and Murillo have forcibly installed a one-party hegemonic model used to repress and subdue to the population,” he urged.
He explains that the repression and persecution has led many of these to take refuge for their safety to avoid being arrested by police forces and paramilitaries, while the combined groups of shock forces of the dictatorship are looking for them to arrest them.
“We make the people of Nicaragua attest that the abuses and violations continue to be committed throughout all the regions of the country, now increasing the serious social and ethnic wound that persists in the Caribbean peoples. We ask for an effort to provide support to any citizen or organization through humanitarian aid », he underlines.
The young people consider that this denunciation of the situation in the Caribbean of Nicaragua “is a cry for help for the indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples” who are suffering from the authoritarian drift of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
