Former Montonero leader
Mario Firmenich works for the questioned Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
and earns more than $3,700 per month, according to a report released in that country.
Nicaragua investigates and Connectas
, an alliance between journalistic organizations and the media, detailed in an investigation that the former guerrilla, currently domiciled in Managua, works as an Ortega official and in a last record he appears as a presidential adviser.
The report gives an account of "a leak from the database of the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS), which contains public data on the entire staff of the State of Nicaragua and the net salary they receive."
According to the investigation, Firmenich receives "
a net salary of 133,710.59 córdobas (3,735.63 dollars)
."
One of Firmenich's last public appearances in the Nicaraguan capital was last October, when he was seen at a fashion event run by Camila Ortega, the daughter of the country's president and his vice president, Rosario Murillo.
Firmenich participated as a veedor in the disputed elections in Nicaragua.
According to the INSS, Firmenich lives in an exclusive area of the capital.
The last known address of the former Montoneros leader was in Barcelona.
The report maintains that Firmenich does not have an identity card in the country, so he could not collect a salary there.
This situation violates article 12 of the Law on Migration and Aliens.
The revelation of
Nicaragua investigates and Connectas
makes itself known amid the controversy over Ortega's recent decision to strip the nationality and assets of more than 300 opponents.
Mario Firmenich with the Nicaraguan ambassador to Argentina, Orlando Gómez
The questions of Macri and other former presidents
The dictator has banished from Nicaragua more than 300 opponents and political prisoners, intellectuals and figures that are dangerous to him: he has taken away their citizenship, framed them as traitors to the Homeland and is confiscating the assets they leave in their country when they are forced to leave him.
Former President Mauricio Macri and other former Ibero-American leaders joined the critical voices that were raised here and in other countries against the silence of the region's governments, such as that of Alberto Fernández, in the face of Daniel Ortega's new onslaught against the opposition Nicaraguan.
Macri signed a press release along with twenty-one other former presidents, all liberals, who make up the so-called Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA).
It is signed by, among other former heads of state and government, the Spanish José María Aznar;
the Mexican Felipe Calderón;
Lucio Gutierrez and Lenin Moreno, from Ecuador, Sebastián Piñera, from Chile, plus Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga from Bolivia.
And he begins by saying that "they regret the silence of the governments of the region -with the exception of the presidents of Chile, Gabriel Boric, and of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso- in the face of the dictatorial onslaught in Nicaragua."
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