The Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, reported through her propaganda media, the promotion of 843 cadets from the Walter Mendoza Police Academy.
The regime spokesperson explained that “843 police officers, 536 men and 307 women will be graduating from the academy this coming Thursday, December 1, at 10 in the morning.”
“The commanders of our National Police are going to attend this very important graduation event for new public servants, the police are servants of our people, custodians of citizen security,” he remarked.
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In addition, Rosario Murillo stressed that the graduation of the cadets of the basic police course will be dedicated “to General José Zamora Martínez, a hero of peace brutally murdered by the terrorists, by the coup leaders in the Mulukukú municipality on June 11, 2018”. .
Likewise, the spokeswoman for the regime pointed out that the “coup plotters (as she calls the opponents) have no forgiveness from God. We do not forget, we will never forget that atrocity, that criminality, that hatred, that viciousness with which the terrorist coup attacked Nicaraguan families in 2018.”
“And thanks to the strength that God gives us, we have recovered peace, tranquility, festivity, joy, color, life, the good life,” he added.
More budget for the Police
On November 23, the Sandinista steamroller in the National Assembly approved the General Budget Law of the Republic for the year 2023, establishing that “the country’s resources will be invested, to continue reducing poverty in Nicaragua.” This time the biggest winners will be the Nicaraguan Army and police.
This initiative contemplates an amount of 109 thousand 989.5 million córdobas that will be distributed to the subordinate institutions by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The Police, which is directed by Francisco Díaz, in-law of the dictatorial couple, will receive 4,311 million córdobas by 2023, 262.9 million more than the current year.
In 2022, the institution, accused of being the repressive arm of Ortega and Murillo, received 4 thousand 48.1 million córdobas, an amount higher than the 3 thousand 760 million destined in the year 2021.
The Police at the service of the Daniel Ortega regime is accused by the opposition and human rights organizations of repressing and shooting protesters in the 2018 civic protests.
Police agents are also attributed to besieging, harassing, and threatening citizens who contradict the policies of the Ortega dictatorship. Since 2018, the Police have openly expressed their fidelity to the Ortega regime.