The wave of arrests in Nicaragua against opposition leaders continues.
The opposition Alianza Ciudadanos por la Libertad (CxL) denounced on Tuesday that Nicaraguan authorities imposed an arrest her candidate for vice president in the presidential elections of November 7, Berenice Quezada , and they disqualified her from running for popular voting positions.
CxL had registered on Monday Quezada, a former beauty queen elected Miss Nicaragua in 2017, as running mate of Oscar Sobalvarro , businessman and veteran, to compete with Daniel Ortega , who in November seeks a fourth consecutive term for which he will have almost no opposition due to the wave of arrests and disqualifications.
Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Migu had been detained before, among others. el Mora, Medardo Mairena and Noel Vidaurre, who are being investigated for alleged treason.
“We denounce that today at 9: 30 pm Berenice Quezada (…) was notified at her home by judicial authorities and the Public Ministry accompanied by the Police, who from that moment remained in home retention, ”the party said on its Twitter account on Tuesday night .
According to CxL, his vice president candidate, from 27 years, he was “without access to telephone communication, with immigration restrictions and inhibited from running for public office of popular election and is currently in his house with police custody. ”
According to local media, the Office of the Prosecutor processed on Tuesday a complaint filed against the opposition candidate for hate crimes and incitement to violence for asking as us followers go out to vote and to the streets as in 2018, when the worst protests against Ortega were registered since he was president.
Recent measures by the Nicaraguan authorities against the opposition have led the European Union (EU), the United States and Canada to decree sanctions against Ortega’s close circle, including his wife and Vice President, Rosario Murillo .
“We do not want more dictatorships”
The Tuesday, a group of citizens who identify themselves as “victims and relatives of the coup terrorism of 2018 ”requested to disable Quezada’s candidacy for s Upposed apology for crime and incitement to hatred before the Office of the Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights (PDDH).
According to the complaint, reported by official media, the former beauty queen incited hatred after her alliance registered its candidates for president and vice president, deputies before the National Assembly and before the Central American Parliament (Parlacen).
Quezada told journalists that “in Nicaragua the (electoral) conditions have never been” and that “the conditions are set by the people. And how do you put them? Going out to vote. ”
He also made a call to vote on November 7 to show that Nicaragua does not want“ more dictatorships ”, alluding to the Ortega government.
“Of 2018 for here Nicaragua drew a line, each one decided where they want to be ”, he added.
The executive describes these riots as 2018, who left at least 73 dead, according to humanitarian organizations such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as an attempted coup.
32 arrests
Quezada becomes the first candidate registered for a popular election position to be arrested by the authorities, which since the end of May has detained 32 people, among them seven applicants of the o position to the presidency, while two others left the country to avoid being captured.
The National Police, led by Francisco Díaz, a brother-in-law of Ortega, has also apprehended a former foreign minister, two former vice chancellors, two historic dissident Sandinista ex-guerrillas, a business leader, a banker, a former first lady and five opposition leaders, the EFE agency noted.
In addition, two student leaders, two peasant leaders , a lawyer and human rights defender, a political scientist and specialist in political and electoral systems, a journalist, a commentator, two former NGO workers and a driver from Cristiana Chamorro.
Others Two candidates for the presidency, María Asunción Moreno and Luis Fley, left Nicaragua for security reasons.
Ortega, who returned to power in 2007, will seek its fifth term, fourth in a row, and second with his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo.
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