Daniel Ortega’s regime increased the economic damage caused by Cyclone Julia to more than 400 million dollars. The figure was disclosed by the Minister of Finance, Iván Acosta, after the work session of the Commission in charge of evaluating and quantifying the damages and losses caused by the hurricane.
Officials have not yet provided a final report; Initially, they calculated the losses at least 200 million dollars, but ten days after the impact of Julia the figure doubled.
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But, according to Acosta, this preliminary information is “practically conclusive and with very few variations in the future.”
The effects were recorded in 96 municipalities in the country, with the greatest impact in Corn Island, El Rama, Laguna de Perlas, Kukra Hill, Bluefields, El Tortuguero, La Desembocadura de Río Grande, La Cruz de Río Grande, Juigalpa, Teustepe, and in districts five, six and seven of Managua.
However, neither President Daniel Ortega nor his vice president, Rosario Murillo, have visited the areas. Former Ambassador Arturo McFields stated that “a country cannot be governed only by telephone or locked in a bunker”:
However, the first to help Ortega was Dante Mossi, executive president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), who arrived in Managua to announce the donation of half a million dollars to deal with the damage caused by the hurricane.
Mossi told official media that “the board approved this non-reimbursable emergency cooperation to help efforts to save lives and protect those who have suffered.”
For the economist and political analyst Enrique Sáenz, Mossi’s cooperation with Ortega “is not surprising” because the representative of the regional bank has proven to be an “accomplice” of the dictator.
The Prosecutor’s Office accused the priest Enrique Martínez Gamboa for the alleged crime of conspiracy to undermine national integrity in a contest of false news to the detriment of the Nicaraguan State.
The parish priest of the Santa Martha church was imprisoned on the afternoon of Thursday, October 13, through a violent police operation, according to complaints; him becoming the ninth priest detained in the last six months.
The accusation was presented by the prosecutor Heydi Estela Ramírez Olivas before the Sandinista judge Karen Chavarría Morales, one day after the religious’s arbitrary arrest.
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For its part, the family of Father Martínez presented on Tuesday an appeal for illegal detention against General Commissioner Luis Pérez, head of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, which is being processed.
Father Martínez Gamboa is a critic of the Nicaraguan dictatorship, remembered for his speech addressed to citizens who participated in the so-called “Mother of All Marches” in 2018.
That day, on the outskirts of the Central American University (UCA), he took the microphone when paramilitaries and police attacked participants, and asked the young people not to “coward,” while calling Ortega and Murillo a “murderous couple.”
Judge Ileana Pérez, president of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), was transferred to the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, in Managua, known as “El Nuevo Chipote”.
On Tuesday, October 18, the official faithful to the presidential couple was taken to the renowned torture center, days after being removed from her administrative positions in the departments of Rivas and Granada, which could mean that the regime subjected her to to an investigation.
The magistrate had been in that position for two years, her main function was the cases that came to the Civil Court. The arrest of the magistrate occurs after the arrest of the spokesman for the Judiciary, Roberto Larios, in the midst of dismissals and resignations of officials sympathetic to the regime.
Daniel Ortega’s regime was the most absent in the public session between the UN Human Rights Committee and the State of Nicaragua, within the framework of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The meeting was convened to review the fourth periodic report on Nicaragua and its compliance with the International Pact, in which 29 issues were discussed, including press censorship, election irregularities, the situation of political prisoners, among others.
The Committee warned that “it is clear that the human rights situation has been deteriorating very seriously” since the social protests of 2018.
The Nicaraguan political prisoner Suyen Barahona will now have a new voice that will demand her freedom in the highest European political spheres, it is the Spanish MEP Soraya Rodríguez, from the Ciudadanos political party, who sponsored the leader as part of the campaign “Breaking the chains» for the world’s political prisoners.
The Prosecutor’s Office formally accused the spokesman of the Supreme Court of Justice, Roberto Larios Meléndez, for the crime of conspiracy to undermine national integrity, sources linked to the Judiciary confirmed to La Prensa.
Although until now the causes of the arrest are officially unknown, according to the national media, his arrest originated after leaking information to an independent media outlet that is in exile. It is also presumed that Larios maintained communication with former magistrate Rafael Solís, however, none of the information is confirmed.
The also journalist and lawyer had been the spokesperson for the Judiciary for more than 20 years, pointed out as a faithful follower of the policies of the Ortega-Murillo regime and submissive to the provisions of the sanctioned president of the CSJ, Alba Luz Ramos.
