The raid carried out against Nicaraguan musicians in April 2022 would have been directed by Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo, son of the dictatorial couple. The “guitarist”, according to the digital media Divergentes, launched his darts against the artists because he could not stand the musicians showing solidarity with the victims of the repression led by his parents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Juan Carlos, annoyed, began by directing the kidnapping of music producers Leonardo Canales, Salvador Espinoza and Xóchilt Tapia. Nor did the vocalist of the band Monroy and Surmenage, Josué Monroy, escape.
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The latter denounced being a victim in prison of interrogations for two days and threats against his family. Finally, he was banished. Before the arrests, Juan Carlos, sanctioned by the US and the EU, infiltrated his workers to get information about the gangs, their struggle and society, and what they thought about him.
The young opponent and political prisoner Lesther German dHe declared before the world leaders, who are participating in the II Summit for Democracy, the “brutal” repression and the prolonged “authoritarian radicalization” of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against the Nicaraguan people, that five years after the outbreak in April, the sociopolitical crisis “urgently calls for a solution.”
The university leader and one of those exiled by Ortega recalled that in 2018 young Nicaraguans demonstrated against the Sandinista dictatorship to demand democracy, respect, freedom and justice. The protests were brutally repressed by the regime, which left a total of more than 350 people murdered, according to a report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
The Supreme Court of Justice announced the closure of the “Antonio Leiva Pérez” Mediation and Arbitration Center, belonging to the Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce and Services (CCSN), an entity that on March 14, was left without legal personality by order of the Ministry of the Interior (Migob).
The Chamber of Commerce inaugurated the Mediation Center in 2006, when José Adán Aguerri was president of that organization. During that same year they signed an agreement to be the national headquarters of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (CIAC). The center resolved national and international conflicts and used high-tech equipment for the benefit of its business allies.
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The deputy dictator of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, announced that her regime will send 2,500 common criminals who are detained in various prisons in the country to family coexistence, but it keeps 37 political prisoners in prison, subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, according to complaints from local and international organizations.
Ortega’s spokeswoman explained that the common prisoners that will be sent under this regime are 830 from the Tipitapa Penitentiary System; 530 from Grenada; 425 from Matagalpa; 196 from Estelí; 164 from Juigalpa; 148 from Chinandega; 113 from León and 94 from Bluefields.
