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  • Nicaragua Ortega orders the arrest of the guerrilla who freed him

In the middle of the night and after blowing up the windows of your home.

The Sandinista police broke into the home of journalist Miguel Mora to take him away by force.

This is the fifth presidential candidate captured in the offensive launched in June by the presidential partner of

Daniel Ortega

and

Rosario Murillo

to clear their way to the presidential elections in November.

There are already around twenty detainees among candidates, leaders, former guerrillas and dissidents of Sandinismo, to whom the doctrine imposed by the "Guillotine Law" has been applied.

Against Mora, according to the statement issued minutes later, the same accusations are repeated, from "acts that undermine independence and sovereignty" to "financing of foreign powers to carry out acts of terrorism."

In short, "

injure the supreme interests of the nation

."

"I demand that the physical integrity of Miguel Mora, his wife, the journalist Verónica Chávez, and their children (one of them with disabilities) be respected. Ortega and Murillo are responsible," the journalist Lucía Pineda also denounced from her exile in Costa Rica. who directed the destinations of the television channel 100% Noticias, together with Mora, until they were imprisoned in 2018 for giving a voice to those who protested against the dictatorship of the Ortega family.

Both remained in jail for six months, in degrading conditions, and the canal and its facilities were confiscated by the government.

They were accused of inciting hatred.

Mora is the fifth candidate arrested in the hunt and capture ordered by Ortega of his agents.

The historian Arturo Cruz, the activist Félix Maradiaga and the lawyer Juan Sebastián Chamorro are detained in the sinister prison of El Chipote, with a dark and long history of mistreatment and torture.

Cristiana Chamorro, daughter of former President Violeta Barrios and cousin of Juan Sebastián, is

kidnapped from her own home

, accused of money laundering.

The former guerrillas Dora María Téllez, Hugo Torres and Víctor Hugo Tinoco have not been able to escape their seclusion in El Chipote either, despite having starred in fundamental chapters in the history of the Sandinista revolution during their struggle against the Somoza dictatorship.

The dissidents Ana Margarita Vijil and Suyén Barahona, the political fighters Violeta Granera and Tamara Dávila and the businessman José Aguerri are others captured during the

revolutionary hunt.

"Political barbarism has been installed"

This outcome was feared in political circles in Managua, since Mora, along with the peasant leader and former political prisoner Medardo Mairena, was the

most important candidate to be released.

The journalist aspired to obtain the presidential candidacy through the Democratic Restoration Party, but this was intervened by the government.

Mora then devoted himself, like the rest of the candidates, to the internal process of the Civic Alliance and Citizens for Freedom.

"The hunt has also tried in vain to decapitate the leadership of the opposition and has criminalized any critical civic activity. The dictatorship in its desperation has installed political barbarism and we are all threatened," protested the Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos), which has several of their leaders among the detainees.

"My solidarity again with Miguel Mora and the more than a hundred political prisoners. We demand immediate freedom, they are not bargaining chips if they are trying to make some arrangements. Respect for their dignity!", Cried the Catholic priest of the parish of San Miguel Arcángel, in Masaya, and one of those who has faced the Sandinista repression with the greatest force.

"

A country without voice or vote, submitted and humiliated; that's how they want us

," stressed the poet Gioconda Belli, whose family has also suffered the attacks of the Ortega regime in recent days.

"Naive, I thought that after the raid on my brother's house nothing worse would happen. Last night, dressed as thieves, they entered and took absolutely everything from the house. They threatened my sister-in-law and my niece. I don't even know how to qualify this horror," he denounced during the weekend Belli, another of those disenchanted with Sandinismo despite the fact that she held different political positions during the first decade of revolutionary power.


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