Ortega describes as "invention" protest of detained opposition leaders

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(CNN Spanish) -

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega questioned the United States government and the European Union for imposing sanctions on his government officials for what they consider a violation of human rights and acts of corruption.

He also signaled the Organization of American States to promote interventionist policies.

Ortega gave a speech this Monday in the historic center of Managua, during the ceremony for the celebration of the 41st anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior, the state body in charge of coordinating the National Penitentiary System, the Directorate of Migration and Immigration and the General Directorate of Firefighters .

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In that speech, Ortega pointed to detained opponents of being part of a plan to create a negative image of his government.

In contrast, the Permanent Commission on Human Rights had announced in early October through a statement that family members informed them that at least 50 people deprived of their liberty began a hunger strike in the Tipitapa prison system, demanding to be released or get a better deal.

They also claimed that some of them sewed their lips as a form of protest.

Opponents' strike "is an invention," says Ortega

“We already know that, as always, there are prisoners who invent that they are being tortured.

And there are the doors of the penitentiary systems, dear Nicaraguan brothers, relatives of the prisoners who are in the prisons of Nicaragua, the doors are open for them to visit them, when it is said that they are torturing them, that they are dying, that they have sewn the lips.

I would like to see them with sewn lips, they invent!

How many things do they invent, simply to create a negative image of Nicaragua, to whom?

Before international organizations, "claimed Ortega.

According to Ortega, these international organizations are managed by the United States, “like the OAS… and to seek an opinion in some European Union countries as well, which easily lend themselves to being part of the interventionist policy ordered by the Yankees.

The Yankees order them… ”.

"If the Yankee applies a sanction, then they come and apply a sanction," said Ortega.

Ortega mentions the resolution approved by the European Parliament on October 8, which calls for sanctions against him and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, in the event that the National Assembly - with a Sandinista majority - approves the so-called Law of Foreign Agents - which was finally done on October 15 and was published this Monday in the gazette - and the Special Cybercrime Law, which opposition parliamentarians consider violate human, political and economic rights of Nicaraguans.

On October 9, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on the Attorney General of Nicaragua, Ana Julia Guido, the Secretary of the Presidency for Public Policies, Paul Oquist Kelly, and the National Rural Fund. (Caruna), the credit union, considered close to Ortega.

The blockade of the assets of those sanctioned is due, according to the statement, to "an effort to target financial operations and key government officials that continue to undermine democracy in Nicaragua."

Ortega refers to elections in Bolivia

Ortega referred to the general elections held in Bolivia this Sunday, and although the official results are not yet in, the opposition already recognizes Luis Arce, from the Movement for Socialism, as the winner.

«The great lesson is that no matter how powerful imperialism is, no matter how powerful its instruments are, the country sells them, which does the job to imperialism, no matter how instrument the OAS is, because the OAS was also embedded there, the force of the peoples is so powerful and rises through votes, that it overwhelms the conspirators, "Ortega said.

This Tuesday the OAS General Assembly is expected to adopt a resolution on Nicaragua sponsored by Canada, Chile, Paraguay, the United States, Colombia and Venezuela, which will establish a deadline for the approval of electoral reforms in view of the elections of November 2021.

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