Berenice Quezada (Credit: OSWALDO RIVAS / AFP via Getty Images)
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The Nicaraguan Public Ministry reported this Wednesday in a statement that it accused the vice-presidential candidate for the Citizens for Freedom Party (CXL) Berenice Xuyamí Quezada Herrera of committing "alleged acts that promote and incite hatred and violence ", actions that according to the document," fit with the criminal offense of provocation, proposition and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts typified in article 398 of the penal code. " According to the Public Ministry, he held a preliminary hearing and the authority admitted the case and determined that the process be released, although it does not specify whether Quezada is under house arrest.
The political leader published a message on her Instagram account on Wednesday thanking those who have been concerned about her physical integrity and indicated that she is fine.
"Yesterday I was notified that I am inhibited as a candidate for the vice presidency," Quezada explained.
Seven formulas are registered for the November elections in Nicaragua, while the FSLN ratifies Ortega and Murillo as its presidential binomial
CNN has not been able to know how Quezada responds to this accusation, as it has not responded to messages.
The Citizens for Freedom party has also not provided the name of the lawyer who will represent it.
Several people who call themselves "relatives of victims" and "direct victims" of what the government describes as "terrorist violence" imposed in Nicaragua in 2018, had denounced Quezada on Tuesday before the Office of the Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights (PDDH ) for alleged "apology for crime and incitement to hatred" and requested her inhibition from running for public office, after the Citizens for Freedom Party officially registered her as a candidate for the vice presidency.
According to the complainants, Quezada incited the Nicaraguan people to promote "acts of violence and terrorism," which according to the government occurred in 2018. In the CXL party they limited themselves to informing us that his family will hire a lawyer, but they do not know the name.
The Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights, Darling Ríos received the complaint.
"The Attorney General's Office accepts this complaint that the families of the victims of terrorism in 2018 are making and that it is also in the framework of a crime. In reality, a violation of collective human rights that all Nicaraguans have to live in peace, to live safely and our institution within its competence and within what we can guarantee in the accompaniment and inter-institutional coordination and that we must guarantee to protect life, to protect security and to protect the common good of our people, we will undeniably be doing Ríos told the official website on 19 digital.
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Quezada, 27, with a degree in tourism administration, also crowned Miss Nicaragua 2017, is part of the presidential formula registered this Monday by the Citizens for Freedom Party, together with the former commander of the counterrevolution and rancher Óscar Sobalvarro, presidential candidate.
After Monday's registration in Managua, Quezada spoke to CNN about the lack of guarantees for an electoral process: "In Nicaragua the conditions have never been, the conditions are set by the people. And how do they set them? Going out to vote. As we have done in the streets, as we did in 2018, as we did in April, "said Quezada.
The candidate joins the 31 opponents detained by the Police since May 28 in Nicaragua, including 7 presidential candidates.
Most of them are investigated for alleged actions against national sovereignty, allegations that are rejected by both their relatives and their lawyers.
In 2018, protests began against the government of President Daniel Ortega, initially against an unpopular reform of the pension system, which escalated to a request for changes in the democratic system.
According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 318 people died in the protests and at least 2,000 others were injured.
The UN has calculated that later some.
100,000 Nicaraguans have left the country.
The government recognized 200 dead, including police officers and maintains the version that it was all nothing more than an attempted coup d'état financed by the United States.
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