The current Colombian ambassador to Nicaragua, Leon Fredy Munozwas accused of drug trafficking by the Prosecutor’s Office of his country, which accuses him of having transported 346 grams of cocaine on a domestic flight in 2018.
On May 31, 2018, police at the airport in Medellín (northwest) found a bag containing 146 grams of “a substance derived from cocaine” in Muñoz’s luggage, said prosecutor Marlenne Orjuela Rodríguez, in a virtual hearing before the Supreme Court of Justice.
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In January 2020, investigators found another 200 grams of cocaine in the suitcase, according to court documents.
The prosecutor asked the court for a prison sentence of 9 to 11 years for the diplomat, for the crime of drug trafficking.
The ambassador, who at the time of his arrest was a congressman-elect for the Green Party, alleges that the drugs were hidden in his briefcase by a rival political group.
The Supreme Court, which took up the case because it involved a “senior official,” will rule in a separate hearing.
The Government of President Joe Biden resumed this Thursday, August 29, the program of words humanitarian which admits up to 360,000 people a year from Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba to live and work in the United States.
In early August, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blocked the words humanitarian to detect and prevent fraud and abuse in immigration processes.
The United States identified that sponsors repeatedly used social security numbers, addresses and telephone numbers on multiple forms. It was discovered that 100,948 I-134A forms were filled by only 3,218 people.
Additionally, 24 Social Security numbers belonged to deceased individuals. About 100 physical addresses were reused on more than 19,000 forms, and one phone number appeared on more than 2,000 applications. Finally, 2,839 forms were found with nonexistent ZIP codes.
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On Thursday, the DHS announced in a statement that after an internal investigation, new measures were adopted to strengthen the “integrity” of the program and thus be able to resume authorizing travel to admitted migrants.
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo decapitated 150 people this Thursday Non-Governmental Organizations more, among them the Association 26 February 1978 «Camilo Ortega Saavedra In Memoriam, Survivors of the Heroic Deed of the Sabogales”, for non-compliance, by not reporting the financial statements between the years 2019.2023 and expired board of directors since 2021.
According to its founding documents, the organization sought to develop social projects and services for former Sandinista combatants in Masaya, including the management of national and foreign scholarships.
Within the package that Ortega eliminated last Monday, there were at least 73 organizations belonging to former historical combatants, retired from the Nicaraguan Army, the National Police, the Patriotic Military Service and other branches of Sandinism.
Another NGO that was decapitated for the same reason was one named after the mother of dictator Daniel Ortega, Lidia Saavedra, which aimed to promote the release of “political prisoners” during the Somoza dictatorship.
Among the Sandinista organizations eliminated are: the Association of Nicaraguan Ex-Combatants, the Association of Combatants and Historical Collaborators of Granada Carlos Fonseca Amador, the Association of Retirees and Pensioners Camilo Ortega Saavedra, the Foundation of Retired Senior Officers and Former Officers of the National Police and the Association of Friends of Cuba.
They also ordered the liquidation of organizations of retired members of the extinct Nicaraguan resistance, that is, the anti-Sandinista organization that confronted Daniel Ortega with bullets in the 1980s. The NGOs linked to the Contras that were outlawed are: the Civil Association of the Disabled of the Nicaraguan Resistance and the Association of Victims and War Cripples of the Nicaraguan Resistance.
