Francisco Guerrero, Secretary for Strengthening Democracy at the Organization of American States (OAS), described Arturo McFields’ complaint to the organization as an “unprecedented event.” The delegate of the regional entity assured that they had not witnessed someone representing a regime take the floor and expose the abuses perpetrated by the administration that appointed him.
The former bosses’ leaders and political prisoners Michael Healy and Álvaro Vargas are reportedly being brought to trial on April 28. The process will take place behind closed doors in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, where dozens of opposition and union leaders have been prosecuted.
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The regime charges both businessmen with the alleged crime of “undermining national integrity” and, together with former ambassador Edgard Parrales, they are the only ones who have pending their political trial from the list of prisoners in the electoral context.
The political prisoners of “El Nuevo Chipote” they defied the dictatorship and, from their cells, staged a protest. Sources told national media that, in the morning hours of Monday, March 28, the opponents repeated slogans, demanded their freedom, sang the National Anthem and shouted the name of the former Sandinista commander who died as a political prisoner, Hugo Torres. The demand of the inmates was heard in several pavilions.
On the other hand, this day, the organization Amnesty International (AI) denounced that journalists, human rights defenders and health professionals “continued to face a hostile environment” in 2021 in Nicaragua, some of them ending up in jail “arbitrarily”. ».
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo attacked the Central American University (UCA) through the National Assembly. Sandinista deputy Gustavo Porras introduced an initiative to reform the General Law of Education and the Law of Autonomy of Higher Education Institutions with which they would be eliminating the UCA from the Higher Council of Universities (CNU).
With this, the university would be left without the constitutional 6%, which has been cut off after the 2018 protests. They also incorporate the rectors of the new state universities created with the “confiscation” of private universities.
The Independent Repair Mechanism (MIR) of the Green Climate Fund decided to launch a compliance investigation of the project Bio-CLIMA, which was approved for Nicaragua with the aim of reducing deforestation and restoring the Bosawás and Río San Juan reserves; and that also has millionaire financing from the Central American Bank for Central American Integration (CABEI).
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The Mechanism decided to carry out the investigation after receiving a complaint that the project would harm indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, who were not consulted and whose lands would be at risk of expropriation.
In turn, on this day, the General Assembly of the Muskitia refused to cohabit with the so-called “settlers.”
According to data shared by the Ministry of Health, Nicaragua accumulates 230 deaths from the COVID-19 and more than 18,400 confirmed cases since the virus was detected in the country, in March 2020. The Minsa reported that, in the last seven days, 69 new cases were registered, which represents six fewer cases.
As for deaths, the regime insists that, for more than a year, the pandemic has killed one person every seven days. The official data contrasts with that of the COVID-19 Citizen Observatory, which reports more than 5,900 deaths from pneumonia and other symptoms related to the virus, as well as 32,110 suspected cases of contagion.
