On September 30, as a political prisoner; The retired Army general died Humberto Ortega Saavedra (HOS), commander of the Sandinista revolution and brother of the father and mother of the current dictator Daniel Ortega and, therefore, brother-in-law of the vice-dictator Rosario Murillo.
The Military Medical Corps of the Nicaraguan Army (EN), which manages the Alejandro Dávila Bolaños Military Hospital, reported through a brief official note that HOS presented a “cardio-respiratory arrest at 01:55 a.m. this Monday. “He was treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers but he did not come out of that condition, so he was officially declared deceased at 2:30 in the morning.”
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In mid-May of this year, HOS gave statements to the international media INFOBAE in which he stated that, after the eventual death of his brother Daniel Ortega, the government and the Sandinista party would be left headless, since his sister-in-law, the vice-dictator Rosario Murillo Nor would their children have the capacity to control power.
In the same interview, the retired general confirmed that the Nicaraguan Army was indeed complicit with the paramilitaries who massacred popular Protestants in the demonstrations and barricades in 2018. Animismo pointed out that after the physical disappearance of his dictator brother, the Army would take the power, displacing Murillo and his family and would call elections.
On June 11, HOS was transferred to the Military Hospital in total secrecy, however, an anonymous source leaked the information to the media Confidencial, stating that the Sandinista veteran was in poor health, in a private room of the military medical center and Completely isolated and under tight police surveillance.
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It was not until the night of this Sunday, September 29, a few hours before his death, that the Army Hospital reported that HOS was in critical condition, which already foreshadowed a fatal outcome, although for some analysts, most likely, the ex-military He could have already been deceased but they only deliberately delayed the news.
The confirmation of the “sudden deterioration” of the health condition of retired General Humberto Ortega Saavedra, brother of the dictator Daniel Ortega and brother-in-law of the vice-dictator Rosario Murillo, and only hours after his death, in the opinion of opponents, responded to the fact that the Ortega was clear and anticipated an “imminent risk of death.”
The opposition Héctor Mairena, lawyer and part of the Democratic Renewal Union (Unamos), in an interview with Article 66before Humberto’s death was publicly known, stated that “with the information they released yesterday, September 29, They are advancing the real possibility that Humberto Ortega is at imminent risk of death, if not already deceased, I say this with absolute conviction that this possibility is real.
Furthermore, he pointed out that as soon as retired General Humberto Ortega was “kidnapped by the dictatorship This is responsible for any eventuality that happens, for the deterioration of your health and even your life.».
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Mairena highlighted that retired general Humberto Ortega is a victim of the dictatorship led by his own brother, since all of his rights have been violated, after he offered statements to an Argentine media “and that caused his house to be raided and “They confiscated his devices, computers, cell phones, and later they admitted him to the Military Hospital, where he is isolated, although first they gave him a house as a prison and then a hospital as a prison.”
Lawyer Álvaro Leiva, a human rights defender exiled by the persecution of Ortegaism, also pointed out that the Ortega Murillo dictatorship “does not respect anything, not even family ties since it has no limits,” being the “rapid deterioration of Humberto’s health.” Ortega Saavedra, a sample of this. Although he is the brother of the dictator and the brother-in-law of the dictator, the ruling couple does not forgive him for his repeated criticism – both publicly and privately – of the management of both.
