The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is showing its economic difficulties and has decided to “tighten” the belts in the bloated payroll of “each institution, project and its directorates,” according to a statement that it has disseminated through its social networks and Sandinista propaganda media.
According to the official statement, after “evaluating the programs, their successes and challenges,” they have decided to implement a compaction measure, which they are trying to soften under the concepts of “organization, restructuring and redesign, in order to promote savings and efficiency in spending and public management.”
In the document signed by the Council of Communication and Citizenship, which has been led since its inception by Rosario Murillo herself, they state that this “measure is aimed at generating greater availability of resources from the General Budget of the Republic, to strengthen direct attention and promote greater progress in each of the Proposals in development, to address and resolve pending challenges.”
The government spokesperson and first lady already projects that this disguised sweep will leave them with “savings” that will be used to “speed up responses to all pending procedures” and “optimize our human capital” to obtain “higher returns in public service,” the letter says.
The United States government has “temporarily” suspended the controversial immigration program known as “humanitarian parole“, which allows migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela to legally travel to North American territory, according to the digital version of the media outlet Fox News.
According to Fox News, the freezing of humanitarian parole is taking place “as a precaution” because the US authorities have detected some signs of fraud in the program, by the sponsors, that is, the people who request the migrants and who could be making some kind of financial profit.
Fox News adds that “a congressional source” has informed it that the pause in Humanitarian Parole in mid-July occurs “after an internal report revealed large amounts of fraud in applications by applicants’ sponsors.
DHS said the pause was taking place while it reviewed sponsors’ applications. The focus is on problems with sponsors’ applications, not on applications from program beneficiaries themselves.
In January 2023, the Biden administration expanded the program to include Nicaraguan, Haitian and Cuban citizens, setting the number of people from these three countries who could enter the United States each month at up to 30,000.
The Nicaraguan regime has been carrying out a real raid against priests of the Catholic Church in recent days. In the last 48 hours alone, five priests have been reported arrested by the police in the service of the regime.
According to complaints made by defenders of religious freedom, this Friday Father Jairo Pravia, parish priest of the Immaculate Conception Church in Sébaco, and Father Víctor Godoy, vicar of that same parish, were kidnapped.
In addition, according to citizen reports sent to the media, on the same day, the religious Marlon Velásquez, administrator of the Santa Lucía parish in Darío, was kidnapped.
Through her personal X account, the lawyer and researcher reports that the Sandinista Police kidnapped, this Thursday, August 1, the judicial vicar of the Diocese of Matagalpa and parish priest of the municipality of San Ramón, Monsignor Ulises Vega.
Monsignor Edgar Sacasa, pastoral vicar and parish priest of San Isidro, was also kidnapped. These two religious men join Father Frutos Valle, administrator ad omnia of the Diocese of Estelí, who was also kidnapped by the dictatorship’s henchmen on July 27, after prohibiting the celebration of a priestly ordination mass.
The general manager of the National Lottery, according to the reforms established in the presidential decree 10-2024 According to La Gaceta, the president of Nicaragua, the dictator Daniel Ortega, will now be chosen. Before this reform, the Board of Directors was in charge of choosing the person responsible for “managing and administering” this company.
The reform of article 12 of the decree 2-95 The creation of the National Lottery establishes that as of August 2, it will read as follows: “the management and administration of the company will be in charge of a general manager, who will be the president of the board of directors, appointed by the President of the Republic, who must be a person of recognized honesty, responsibility and competence in matters of administration.”
Furthermore, it establishes among the functions of the person designated as general manager: “to be the legal representative of the company; to submit for approval the organizational and functional structure plan of the company; to submit to the knowledge and resolution of the board of directors all matters of company policies that require approval; to prepare and present annually a general plan of activities and a general budget of operations and investments; and to prepare and present a report on operations, activities and financial conditions of the company.”
