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"History repeats itself today in this country."
The words of the Catholic priest Uriel Vallejos
today go through the different Nicaraguas
, inside and outside, in full development of the "electoral circus" launched by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo
to screw themselves five more years in power
in search of remaining 30 years at the helm of the country.
The parish priest of the Jesús de la Divina Misericordia church in Sébaco has not hesitated to compare these presidential elections, in which five collaborators compete with the Nicaraguan leader, with the elections of 1974, when the Somoza dictatorship
organized similar elections and the population He rejected them by closing their doors
to show his discontent.
In Nicaragua the pantomime started with the same ritual as always, a lot of propaganda and a lot of repression, collected by human rights organizations.
The strategy is that there is no evidence of electoral fraud and abstention
, which appears massively thanks to the "closed doors" day launched by the opposition. Only the electoral "companions",
hoolingans
of Sandinismo, including two leaders of the Andalusian PCE, and
the "journalists" of friendly countries
, such as Venezuela and Cuba, visit the electoral centers on the ground, which are banned from international journalists.
"
Ortega's will is to turn Nicaragua into the tomb of freedom of expression,
" denounced the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) after taking note of the ban on the entry of foreign correspondents. Both land and air borders remain
closed by journalists
and the few who sneaked in days ago cannot carry out normal coverage.
Nidia Barbosa, Masaya leader of the Civic Alliance, was detained by Sandinista agents, who maintain a siege in one of the rebel cities. This was confirmed to EL MUNDO by Father Edwing Román, parish priest of the Church of San Miguel: "
In Masaya everyone is locked in their homes
. There is fear. They robbed us of the joy of holding free elections. They have closed the doors of their
houses
. houses not to vote ".
The priest has contributed images of his empty city, with its deserted streets.
"The receiving (voting) boards failed," he contrasts.
Other detainees in Masaya are Santiago Fajardo, Edder Muñoz, Fabio Núñez, Carla Mendoza, María Montalbán, Yolanda González and Heyseel Palacios.
A good number of activists remain in hiding, they
have even fled abroad in the last hours.
Despite the persecution, the images of desolation are repeated in Managua, León, Matagalpa, from almost all parts of Nicaragua
in what appears to be a "palmado" country, as the Nicaraguan say when there is no atmosphere at all
.
"These elections cannot be legitimized, the world must ignore them. We repudiate this electoral circus.
That the photo of the murderers appears on the electoral ballots says it all,
" Yadira Córdoba, a member of the Mothers of April, summed up for this newspaper. the head of the great protest that today leads the exile in San José, Costa Rica. Paramilitaries blew out his Orlando's head during the 2018 protests. He was only 15 years old.
"The police are now walking the streets of our Masaya,
my family is all in the house,
" added Azucena López, the mother of Erick Jiménez, one of the more than 300 fatalities during the savage repression of the Sandinista government. "We have a lot of faith in the world, even Europe has sanctioned them.
But we need a stronger hand against the repressors,
" he concluded.
The exiles have also demonstrated in Madrid, as well as in different cities on the continent. "It is a horror movie in slow motion," insisted José Miguel Vivanco, director for the Americas at Human Rights Watch (HRW).
In his memory and in that of the protesters of the so-called World March, the more than 300 murdered
, the 150 political prisoners, the seven imprisoned candidates, the more than 100,000 exiles.
"Cruelty has reached inhuman limits, a cruelty that is unprecedented in the history of Nicaragua," Monsignor Silvio José Báez, auxiliary archbishop of Managua and one of the symbols of the popular rebellion of 2018, stressed from his exile in the US. His motto, which in recent hours has been repeated by other priests and their parishioners,
is "this crucified people will rise again
.
"
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