In a secret hearing held by video call, the Attorney General of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship formally accused the retired major of the Nicaraguan Army Eddie Gonzalez for several alleged crimes, including attempted murder. An Ortega judge ordered him to be held in preventive detention.
According to information known by various media outlets, the former military officer is accused of attempted murder, aggravated obstruction of functions; improper use of emblems, uniforms or equipment of the Nicaraguan Army and the National Police, as well as manufacturing, trafficking, possession and use of restricted weapons, explosive substances or devices.
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The regime’s Public Prosecutor’s Office, which has been branded by international organizations as a “factory of false crimes against opponents,” presented Norgen Isidro Castellón, Jhotys Alcides Herrera Cárdenas, Germán Domingo Rodríguez Sobalvarro, José Andrés Carrasco Torres and the State of Nicaragua as alleged victims.
The ex-military man is the journalist’s brother Nohelia Gonzalezwho for many years was head of information for La Prensa and later at Radio María. The dictatorship ordered the arrest of the journalist and to this day it is not known exactly if she was exiled or is in the prisons of the dictatorship. Faced with this situation, the ex-military man made the complaint public and for this reason, on July 15, the Police tried to take him from his house without an arrest warrant or a search warrant.
The Association of Chinese Residents in Nicaragua (ADCREN), which obtained its legal status on July 9, was officially registered with its perpetual number 7097, according to the registration certificate published by the Ministry of the Interior in the official newspaper La Gaceta.
The publication details that ADCREN aims to “strengthen the link with the Chinese embassy in Nicaragua and serve as a bridge for exchanges between China and Nicaragua.”
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ADCREN, led by its president Wei Chen and its vice president Qingjiang Du, is the third Chinese non-governmental organization that the Ortega government has authorized in recent months. Last May, it formalized the operation of the Association for the Peaceful Unification of China in Nicaragua (APUPCH) and four months earlier, in January, it granted legal status to the Nicaragua-China Chamber of Industry and Commerce (CCNN).
The Nicaraguan regime, through presidential agreement 113-2024, released on July 23 in the official gazette The Gazettedefenestrated the Ortega Arlette Cristina Marenco Meza. He removed her from her position as Deputy Minister General of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Marenco Meza held the position of vice-chancellor for eight years, after the Ortega administration awarded her that position in the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry through presidential agreement 01-2017, announced in January 2017.
In addition, she was removed from her position as “Minister Advisor to the President of the Republic for International Relations,” which she held since July 2019, according to presidential agreement 111-2019 that was disclosed in La Gaceta.
The officialization of the removal of Marenco Meza from her posts occurred five days after it was leaked, through employees of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, that the Ortega official was under house arrest, after not being seen at the headquarters of that institution since the second week of this month.
