Daniel Ortega had been absent from the public sphere of Nicaragua for 56 days. He appeared at an event commemorating the assassination of Augusto C.

Sandino. He used the reappearance to mock the 317 Nicaraguans whom he stripped of their nationality. He imposed the political crime of “traitors to the country’ on him, writes Ruben Navarrette. The Sandinista leader is accused along with his wife of committing crimes against humanity by a group of United Nations experts.