One month after the release and exile of 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners, those now declared stateless by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo signed a statement in which they reject the stripping of their nationality and thank the solidarity of countries that have offered receive them.
Nicaraguan nationality “can never be taken away by an illegitimate, criminal and corrupt regime, which has kidnapped all of our people by force of arms. On the contrary, we will continue to be proud pinoleros, fully confident, as God is alive, that soon we will return to a free homeland to live! Because to be free, Christ gave us Freedom! (Galatians 5:1)” indicated in the notice.
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In turn, they “respectfully” requested the Executive and Legislative branches of the United States to consider approving legal mechanisms so that the 222 political prisoners released, as well as the other 94 Nicaraguans who were illegitimately stripped of their nationality, can receive refugee status. or political asylees expeditiously.
The retired general Humberto Ortega Saavedrabrother of the dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortegainsists that the regime and the opposition must focus on the 2026 presidential elections and solve the sociopolitical crisis through an agreement that he called the “democratic pact of national cohabitation.”
For Humberto Ortega, the arrival of Holy Week is ideal to cease confrontations and initiate different forms of communication between the parties, in a “climate that the governments involved support without sanctions, to facilitate reaching basic agreements.”
Opponents pointed out, for their part, that the former head of the Sandinista Army simply revealed himself as “his brother’s accomplice”the dictator Daniel Ortega.
“Let Humberto Ortega not come to ask for such a holy truce, opportunistically taking advantage of the air of Holy Week because what he tells the opposition is that we submit to the situation that Nicaragua is experiencing and that is not going to happen,” said Héctor Mairena, a member of the UNAB Political Council.
The political prisoner Miguel Mendoza He reappeared before the cameras in his first journalistic coverage since he was released from the prisons of the Nicaraguan dictatorship on February 9.
“Wow, how the days go by! A month ago at this time, she was landing on the freedom flight after 597 days of hijacking. Today I am landing in Miami (United States) for my first sports coverage in my new reality as an exile from the dictatorship, trying to resume life, working as I have always done,” Mendoza said in his broadcast for the Divergent media.
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The sportswriter was surrounded by Nicaraguans who immediately recognized him. “How good I felt with so many hugs, greetings, photos and demonstrations of affection from the Nicaraguans at the Port St. Lucie stadium who came to the Nicaragua-New York Mets game!” He said.
The report published by Freedom House places Nicaragua for the fifth consecutive year as a country with mutilated liberties under the intensification of the repression imposed by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The non-governmental organization also highlights the arrest and sentence against Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, the arrest of other clergymen and workers from his curia, which constitutes a crime on the part of the dictatorship.
In turn, it places Nicaragua among the countries without freedom worldwide.
In the last two weeks, two members of sexual diversity have been murdered. One of them apparently because of his rejection of his preferences, as can be seen from the circumstances surrounding the crime.
The most recent case is that of the young Juan Francisco Mena Hernandez35 years old, who surrendered to death after suffering a beating allegedly at the hands of Sidar Murillo, 34 years old, described as his sentimental partner, who is already detained in Masaya.
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The Nicaraguan Trans Association spoke out demanding justice for the death of Mena Hernández.
This week it was also known that in the municipality of Jinotepe in Carazo, Juan Ramon Garcia Martinez48-year-old would have taken the life of his son, a 16-year-old teenager, in the middle of a discussion between the attacker, the young man and his mother. Neighbors pointed out that the alleged murderer rejected his eldest son because of his sexual orientation and had threatened him repeatedly.
