Daniel Ortega reappears imitating the Spanish accent and mocks the banished opponents

Daniel Ortega had been absent from the public sphere of Nicaragua for 56 days, one of the longest periods of time he has spent away from the stages with flowers and ferns where he presides over the official acts of his Government.

On the night of February 21, he appeared at an event commemorating the assassination of Augusto C. Sandino, the hagiographic figure of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), and used the reappearance to mock the 317 Nicaraguans whom he stripped of their nationality and He imposed the political crime of “traitors to the country” on him.

“16 years ago Adolfo Díaz and Emiliano Chamorro stopped being Nicaraguans, like those who have stopped being Nicaraguans and are now in the United States, now they are Yankees, they must feel very happy to be Yankees,” said Ortega with plenty of sarcasm, when he was paraphrasing the Manifesto of Saint Albino, written by Sandino in 1927.

“Others are in Spain, they feel Spanish, very happy to be Spanish, they must even speak like Spaniards,” Ortega added even more mockingly, imitating the Spanish accent.

The Sandinista leader offered the speech in a usual closed circuit, accompanied by heads of the powers of the State, the police headquarters, the military high command and a choreography of young people from the Sandinista Youth, in a staging that resembles rallies North Koreans.

Ortega warned that those who “betray the country simply stop belonging to the country,” referring to the opponents, journalists, religious people, feminists, activists, and former presidential candidates who were banished and exiled by his regime.

The 317 denationalized people have been mostly naturalized by Spain.

Although other Latin American countries, such as Chile and Colombia, have also offered them a nationality to not leave them in the statelessness imposed by the Ortega government and his wife, Vice President Murillo.

“They must now speak like Spaniards,” mocks the dictator, the same one who kisses the butts of Cubans, Venezuelans, Chinese and Russians, and who has a son who is incapable of reading without stuttering and another who is a laughingstock when he sings.

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The Sandinista leader, accused along with his wife of committing crimes against humanity by a group of United Nations experts, continued using the Manifesto

of Sandino to justify why he made his critics stateless: “Emiliano and Díaz stopped being Nicaraguans because ambition killed the right of their nationality.

That's right, that's an elementary principle: He who betrays his country stops being from that country, he stops having a country, and that's why those who betray his country are called stateless;

because they tore from the flagpole the flag that covered all of us Nicaraguans.”

An absence that Murillo and Laureano occupy

Confidencial,

the media run by journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, one of those denationalized by the regime, keeps a log of Ortega's public appearances.

The media outlet, whose editorial staff was confiscated twice, highlights that the Sandinista leader “has had greater and longer periods of absence, accumulating 56 days of absence, since his last public event, on December 27, 2023, and until his reappearance on February 21, 2024″.

“At 78 years of age and with more than 17 consecutive years in power – since his return to the presidency in January 2007 –, Ortega increasingly reduces his public appearances, limiting himself to anniversaries of births or deaths of national figures, anniversaries or graduations of the Police and the Army – obedient executors and accomplices of repression under more than five years of the de facto police state –, a few protocol events and fewer and fewer official visits,” the text states.

In contrast, the void of Ortega's figure is filled by Rosario Murillo, the "co-president" of Nicaragua, according to her husband.

The first lady is also an omnipresent figure, a kind of “big brother” who appears almost daily in the official media giving monologues, ranging from the saint that is celebrated that day, reports on government management to televised scoldings. to officials.

Laureano Ortega, one of the sons of the presidential couple, has begun to replace his father at public events.

According to Sandinista sources consulted by EL PAÍS, Murillo is preparing the dynastic succession with Laureano, an opera tenor and “presidential advisor for the promotion of investments, trade and international cooperation.”

Laureno has been seen strengthening relations with Xi Jinping's China, from responding to a Chinese New Year message to signing a Free Trade Agreement between the Asian giant and Nicaragua.

On other occasions in the delivery of buses donated by Russia or receiving Eurasian delegations in Managua that orbit around Vladimir Putin.

Confidencial

recalls that, before the event in which he mocked the opponents stripped of their nationality, Ortega made an appearance at a private event that was not broadcast by the official media: it was a wake.

“After almost 46 days without being seen at any public event, Ortega reappeared at a wake on the night of February 11, 2024, according to a publication on social networks.

[...] Ortega appeared to offer condolences to the Díaz-Lacayo family, for the death of Marianne Antoinette Maymi de Lacayo, wife of Federico Lacayo Álvarez, known as Pitín III, who was his personal assistant for several decades, since the eighties, and retired a few years ago,” the confiscated media reports.

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