The administration of dictator Daniel Ortega has already begun to drain the pockets of Nicaraguans through taxes to pay the debt to China. In the last reform of the 2024 General Budget, it took millions from social institutions and also used “tax over-receipts” to pay Chinese companies loan advances that they have not even begun to disburse.
On December 18, in the official newspaper La Gaceta, Ortega published the Law that establishes the latest reform of the year to the General Budget of the Republic (PGR) for 2024 in which, in addition to snatching billions of córdobas from at least 20 social institutions, also uses tax revenues to allocate those funds to repressive institutions and make advance payments of more than 110 million to Chinese companies that have not disbursed a single loan nor have they started working.
According to monitoring carried out by independent media, Nicaragua has made loan commitments with Chinese state and private companies that are close to one billion dollars. Economists have warned that the State of Nicaragua is going into debt at such a rate that it is close to once again being considered a “highly indebted poor country.”
Among the projects that Ortega has committed to financing from the Asian giant are the reconstruction, expansion and improvement of the Punta Huete International Airport, also known as “Panchito”, which was assigned without any kind of bidding to the Chinese state company. CAMC Engineeringwhich would carry out the work at a cost of 491.5 million dollars.
Estelian lawyer and agronomist Luis Rodolfo Ibarra González, 64, disappeared for nine days at the hands of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, after having been kidnapped by the Sandinista Police in the midst of a repressive wave unleashed by the tyranny against the family. González, from that northern department.
A source close to the lawyer’s family, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, told Article 66 that, since Ibarra González was kidnapped by members of the regime’s repressive forces on December 11, nothing has been known about him.
The González family friend indicates that some residents of the city of Estelí, who witnessed the kidnapping of the lawyer, told them what the arrest was like.
“He was executed by agents of the Rapid Intervention Group (GER) of the National Police, supported by paramilitaries,” said the source. The Sandinista uniformed men forced him to get out of the vehicle and took him away, apparently towards Managua.
Since that moment, the lawyer’s family has asked the police about the whereabouts of their relative. The henchmen of the regime first acknowledged that they had him detained, but hours later they denied having him in their possession and since then they have not been aware of the citizen, which is why he is considered in a condition of “forced disappearance due to concealment of whereabouts.”
The family later learned that their relative was taken to Managua and is being investigated for alleged “common crimes.” Likewise, sources close to the judiciary have indicated that their relative appears in judicial records as “Luis Rodolfo González Martínez.”
Luis Rodolfo Ibarra González, a native of Estelí, is an agricultural engineer, also a lawyer and notary public, with a master’s degree in criminal law, a profession he practiced until before being arrested by the repressive forces of the dictatorship.
Ibarra González is the first cousin of retired Army Major Eddie González, a veteran military intelligence officer, currently a political prisoner of the dictatorship after, in July of this year, he confronted the Police with gunshots when they tried to capture him inside. from his home without an arrest warrant or search warrant.
He is also the cousin of journalist Nohelia González, kidnapped by Ortega’s repressive agents and later exiled.
Adán Herrera Peralta, 39 years old and originally from Jalapa, Nueva Segovia, was murdered on December 18 in Honduras. The crime occurred in Pueblo Nuevo, a Honduran municipality, while Herrera was carrying out routine work on a farm owned by Domingo Miranda.
Luz Elizabeth Roque Cruz, 26 years old and the victim’s wife, said that her husband left early for the farm. Hours later, she was notified by phone call of his death.
According to witnesses, two men on a motorcycle shot Herrera at point-blank range and fled the scene. Seriously wounded, he was taken in a private vehicle to the Pastor Jiménez hospital in Jalapa, but died due to massive hemorrhage caused by the multiple shots.
