Nicaragua - International Solidarity Campaign Immediate Freedom of Medardo Mairena!
On Friday 13 July of this year was arrested peasant leader Medardo Mairena. It was at the airport in Managua, as he prepared to board a plane bound for the United States, as part of a tour of solidarity with the Nicaraguan peasant movement.
The National Police and the Attorney, under absolute control of the dictatorship Ortega-Murillo, They have invented false charges against Mairena, accusing him of being the "intellectual author" of the slaughter that occurred yesterday in the village of Morrito, Río San Juan Department, a confusing incident in which employees of the Mayor in the hands of FSLN opened fire and killed members of the National Police.
Using the classic method of almáganas, It has blamed the peasant movement anticanal, being the perpetrators of such slaughter, obviating the Sandinista mobs they had attacked the massive protest march against the government Ortega-Murillo. A Mairena against him charges of "terrorism", which provides criminal penalties 15 a 20 years in prison. And the first hearing was held, in secret, without which it will respect the right to choose his counsel, although officially there is no cause registered in the system ORDICE against.
The arbitrary detention of Medardo Mairena is part of bloody military offensive that the Ortega-Murillo government develops against the tranques, especially against those who have lifted the anti-peasant movement canal on the Caribbean coast. Under the promise Medardo Mairena would be released if they left the protest, the peasants were removed from the dam of San Pedro de Lóvago, in the department of Chontales, but they were ambushed on the road towards New Guinea, brutally murdered and their bodies were left lying on the roadside.
Medardo Mairena is currently the national coordinator of the Defense Council of the Earth, Lake and Sovereignty, better known as peasant movement against the construction of the canal. Medardo Mairena, with companion Francisca Ramirez, are the main leaders of the peasant movement anti canal.
Belligerency channel anti peasant movement has been felt in recent years, It is the sector that has mobilized against family dictatorship Ortega-Murillo. The above, Medardo has allowed Mairena represent the peasant movement in the negotiations of the National Dialogue. Thus, arbitrary arrest and false charges, It has a clear political connotation.
Since the Central American Socialist Party (PSoC) We call on all peasant organizations and central Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and other Central American countries, to join the international solidarity campaign, demanding the immediate release of Medardo Mairena, and to cease the harassment and persecution against Francisca Ramirez.
We call the labor unions, and democratic trade unions and leftist organizations, Latin America and the world, to rule immediately, demanding the release of Medardo Mairena.
We call collect signatures of leaders and personality, demanding the release of Medardo Mairena, to conduct protest rallies against the embassies of Nicaragua in Central America, Latin America and Rest of World.
Send electronic correros or simultaneous messages, demanding the immediate release of Mairena, the following addresses:
Daniel Ortega Saavedra - President of the Republic
Fax: +505 2266 3102
daniel@presidencia.gob.ni
Dr. Paul Oquist - Private Secretary to the President
paul.oquist@sppn.gob.ni
Drag. Alba Luz Ramos - President of the Supreme Court
aramos@poderjudicial.gob.ni
Drag. Ana Julia Guido - Attorney General of the Republic
anajuliaguido@ministeriopublico.gob.ni
International solidarity is a very important issue to achieve freedom of Medardo Mairena, support the fight against repression and to stop the massacres in Nicaragua.
Central America, 15 July 2018.
Central Executive Secretariat (DRY)
Central American Socialist Party (PSoC)
