The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) deplored the sentence against Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro, general manager of La Prensa and regional vice president of the IAPA in Nicaragua. On March 23, the political prisoner was found guilty for the alleged crimes of “customs fraud and money laundering”, in a political trial that lasted two days.
The organization considered that “once again the regime viciously demonstrated its intolerance of different thinking and freedoms” by prosecuting, persecuting and ending the print edition of Nicaragua’s oldest newspaper, La Prensa.
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On Thursday, March 24, Avilés decorated and said goodbye to 13 colonels, in second class to 11 lieutenant colonels, 2 captains of The chief of the Nicaraguan Army, General Julio Cesar Avilescarried out a “cleansing” within its ranks, sending to retirement more than 40 frigate officers, 13 majors, a captain and the Brigadier General Genaro Rosendo Betanco Romero.
The activity took place a day after the former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Arturo McFields, decided to rebel against the regime.
Daniel Ortega canceled the appointment of Colonel Mario Napoleón Vindell Midence as concurrent Defense, Military, Naval and Air Attaché to the Nicaraguan Embassy in the Republic of Guatemala. Through presidential agreements, Ortega dismissed Vindell, who had held the position since 2017, and replaced him with infantry lieutenant colonel Guillermo Guzmán González. The Presidency does not report the reasons for the movements.
The number of refugees and applicants for Nicaraguan asylum in Costa Rica it has doubled and has reached 150,000 in the last eight months, denounced the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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The agency’s spokesman stressed that the number of refugees is already equivalent to 3 percent of the total population of Costa Rica, and that this flow even exceeds that of refugees and asylum seekers who were welcomed by this country during the civil wars in Central America. in the 80s of the last century.
The UN Human Rights Office denounced a few weeks ago that the political crisis in Nicaragua has pushed tens of thousands of people out of the country.
The US Embassy in Managua highlighted that, in 2021, Nicaragua bought from the United States 754.104 million dollars in Petroleum and its derivatives, which represented 68 percent of consumption in the country. The figures were published by the Central Bank of Nicaragua.
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The US embassy indicated that “these imports constitute an indispensable source of energy to boost the local economy and sustain millions of jobs.”
The day before, Daniel Ortega held a meeting with a delegation from the Asian state company Power Chinain its quest to formalize investments for the new dream projects of the regime in the area of solar and hydroelectric energy.
