Jan Simon and Angela Buitragomembers of the United Nations Group of Experts on Human Rights arrived in San José, Costa Rica, to meet with victims of the Daniel Ortega dictatorship, as well as with human rights activists and organizations that settled in the neighboring country due to political persecution in Nicaragua.
The visit takes place weeks after experts confirmed that the Ortega regime committed crimes against humanity since the 2018 sociopolitical crisis.
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At least 40 days have passed since the Bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Monsignor Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, was transferred to the National Penitentiary System (SPN), known as “La Modelo”. Since then, his state of health is unknown.
Human rights organizations and lawyers have affirmed that the Catholic leader is subjected to a “forced disappearance” by the Ortega dictatorship.
The political prisoner Jaime Navarrete Blandon He has already served his sentence imposed by the courts of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. Since January of this year he should have been released, but he remains captive in the cells of the National Penitentiary System (SPN), known as “La Modelo”.
According to the Be Human platform, the political hostage is sick. They denounce that the prison authorities deny that he be seen by a specialist so that they can determine the causes of his illnesses and give him medicine to alleviate the illnesses.
Navarrete is one of the more than 30 political prisoners who were not exiled to the United States on February 9.
Fifteen days have passed without news since five fishermen from Corinth disappeared.
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The Naval Force authorities and the fishermen have not stopped the search. Meanwhile, the economic collections continue inside and outside the country, to obtain the necessary resources and continue looking for them.
The commission of eight fishermen who traveled to El Salvador to coordinate with the Captain of the Naval Force of the neighboring country and reinforce the search and rescue work of the crew, returned to the country after five intense days of searching, without results.
However, relatives and friends of the disappeared do not lose hope that their relatives will return alive.
The Nicaraguan dictatorial couple, made up of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, decided to “reward” their daughter Camila Ortega Murillo and delegated it to give the inaugural lesson of the 2023 academic year at the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast (URACCAN).
La Ortega Murillo will arrive in the Caribbean when a series of massacres have been registered against the indigenous peoples who defend their lands from the settlers in the face of the passivity of the administration on duty.
In the place “she will speak” about the “achievements and challenges in the promotion of the creative economy in the towns of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast”, this as part of her “duties” as coordinator of the National Commission for Creative Economy, an invented position and custom created by her mother, Rosario Murillo, for her personal assistant.
