2023-04-22 20:30:48
The Mexican-Nicaraguan architect, Arnoldo Horacio Guillén Monterrubio, 61, this week became a new victim of political repression in Nicaragua, with a violent and surprise arrest carried out by police forces, family sources and opponents of that denounced this Saturday. country.
Recognized as a discreet opponent of the questioned regime of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, Guillén was arrested the morning of the previous Tuesday on the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the massive anti-government protests. in that nation in demand of democracy and freedom, the sources said.
The accounts of the capture specified that it occurred in a public area of the city of Corintoin the northwestern department (state) of the same name, at a time when he allegedly went to a site to distribute propaganda, pamphlets or white and blue stickers, colors that are the symbol of Nicaragua’s political opposition, they described.
After this operation, a police patrol launched a surprise raid that same day in the afternoon of a hostel where Guillén stayed temporarily in Chinandega, forced the owner of the place to deactivate the security cameras and entered the room of the Mexican- Nicaraguan for a record, according to the data held by EL UNIVERSAL.
The deployment at the inn occurred “with luxury of violence”, reported the digital page of the newspaper La Prensa, the main one in Nicaragua. “Guillén is an opponent of the dictatorship of (…) Ortega and (…) Murillo, although he has kept his actions low profile so as not to suffer any kind of repression,” reported.
“At the time of his arrest, the police agents also stripped him of his truck,” specified the outlet, which works from outside Nicaragua with its journalists in exile and only exists in its online version after being forced to suspend its print edition for the political, police and tax harassment of Ortega and Murillo.
“People close to Guillén mentioned that since 2018 he has been an opponent of the regime, but had kept a low profile to avoid reprisals. He had not previously been besieged, harassed or harassed by any shock force” of the regime, he said.
Relatives negotiate with the Mexican embassy in Nicaragua
100% Noticias, the Nicaraguan digital media, published this Friday that one of Guillén’s relatives revealed that “We are negotiating with the Mexican embassy (in Nicaragua), they tell us that it is being investigated and that they cannot show it until they have something to present it before a judge”.
Meanwhile, the embassy remained silent on this matter.
“This took us by surprise, now that we know that he is going to be detained. We have been looking for him since Tuesday and they did not give us news about him, until yesterday (Thursday) when we already found out where he is”he assured.
Without giving further references, the relative confirmed to the outlet that “We are taking food to the police station. They told us to bring slippers (slippers), personal hygiene items, food and water.”
100% Noticias, which also operates from outside Nicaragua with its journalists in exile, pointed out that the relative suggested that Guillén was imprisoned “supposedly” for possession of opposition propaganda and that the relatives explained that “all” have dual nationality. Mexican-Nicaraguan.
One part lives in the US and another in Nicaragua. Guillén traveled to Chinandega to work on a sister’s business projectsince he lives in the central department of Chontales, it transcended in the sources.
“The family is warned that in these cases there is no 48-hour term (for the period of provisional detention), but as it is supposed to be under investigation, he can be detained for up to three months.“, he indicated.
OPPONENTS OF DANIEL ORTEGA REPUDIATE ARREST OF MEXICAN ARCHITECT
The case generated strong repudiation reactions from Nicaraguan opponents, most of whom also had to flee abroad to obtain political asylum, mainly in the United States and Costa Rica.
Faced with the turbulence caused by the protests that broke out in 2018 against them to demand democracy and freedom, Ortega and Murillo unleashed a violent political repression, with a balance of more than 325 deaths, and attributed the street mobilizations of their adversaries to a terrorist coup d’état. executed by the opposition with US support. The ruling duo denied the accusations of massive human rights violations.
“The police (…) have arbitrarily detained” Guillén and other opponents in different parts of Nicaragua, for which reason “We demand respect for their rights and their immediate release”tweeted Nicaraguan opposition member Félix Maradiaga, one of the main anti-government leaders.
Maradiaga was part of the group of 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners who on February 9 were exiled to the US by the presidential couple and stripped of their nationality. Maradiaga remains in the US.
Article 66, a Nicaraguan news outlet that also operates under government siege, stated last Thursday that “In the face of this new repressive attack, opposition leaders and political organizations demanded the immediate release of (…) Guillén, as well as respect for his physical integrity.”
After the expulsion of the 222 and the fact that, in February of this year, 94 Nicaraguans were stripped of their nationality by Ortega and Murillo, accusing them of being traitors to the Homeland, the Nicaraguan prisons began to fill up again with prisoners. politicians and the number It has already exceeded fifty.
The Nicaraguan crisis showed a progressive worsening and decomposition, especially after Ortega and Murillo were re-elected in November 2021 in elections that, with opponents imprisoned, under house arrest or in exile and without real plural partisan participation, were qualified by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union (EU) as illegitimate.
Ortega and Murillo defended the legitimacy and transparency of this consultation, for which reason in January 2022 they began a fourth consecutive five-year period since 2007 that should conclude in January 2027, with official data from 2023 that showed a growing socioeconomic deterioration.
The outbreak of April 18, 2018 marked a turning point in Nicaraguan politicswith an impact in America, Asia and Europe by the forces in favor of Ortega and Murillo, such as Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia, and against repression and in favor of a return to democracy, such as the US , Europe, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Canada and Uruguay.
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