Nicaragua from within. Here there is no peace
evidenced the state of terror in Nicaragua found at this time. Matt Andres Romero was a young man 16 years, He was studying just the fourth year of secondary. On Sunday 23 September decided to go to the march "We are all voice of political prisoners", accompanied by some of his classmates. He left his home at 9:00 in the morning with a blue and white neckerchief. Matt went to the march without knowing that there was waiting for a bullet that would have his life: paramilitaries shot him in the chest, causing immediate death.
His body fell into the street from Tamarindo, Americas neighborhood 3, in Managua. Five months have passed since the slaughter began April, and the death tolls do nothing but grow. Nicaragua is in a state of permanent mourning. We are fed up with police and paramilitaries continue assassinating our comrades in resistance.
In Nicaragua there is no peace, no security, or guarantees of life. On the same day six others were wounded with guns war, but they were taken to the hospital in time and are in recovery. Finally, during the march kidnapped 22 both activists of the student movement and the Articulation of Social Movements.
Thus the state of terror in Nicaragua found evidence at this time. From the international community call for an end to repression and disarmament of paramilitary groups. Likewise, We condemn the crimes against humanity committed by the Ortega-Murillo regime and demand the immediate departure of the dictatorship to lead to a process of democratization of the country.
More of 1000 They disappeared since the protests began
The Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH) records 1300 citizens missing since the protests began April. Likewise, adds figures 512 murders and 4000 wounded. How far we will get? It's only been five months since it started and violence is increasing. Repression and death are just around the corner. The government has shown that the only way to stay in power is by using criminal force against the lives of Nicaraguans.
"Where are these people? That's what has to explain the State of Nicaragua to the international community and the people ", said Alvaro Leiva, executive secretary of the ANPDH. The pattern in these cases is the use of state violence, because people stops without a warrant or search warrant; It is killed with impunity to daylight.
Medardo Mairena writes letter from prison
The peasant leader has been jailed since 13 of July. In the courts call him a terrorist and will invent crimes he did not commit. All this time Medardo has been imprisoned in inhumane conditions. A few weeks ago he circulated a photo of him in jail where he looked pale, spent, as off. In a letter read on Monday 24 September by his brother Alfredo Mairena, the peasant leader brings us closer to that horrible and rotten reality of the prisons of the regime Ortega-Murillo.
First exposed the appalling conditions in which political prisoners are locked, without light, with the windows closed to keep out the air; full of mosquitoes, cockroaches and scorpions. In this sense, dice: "I'm in a maximum security cell called 'El Infiernillo'. There is more of 20 prisoners under the same conditions, I have been sick, Like other, but do not allow us to check us a doctor ". In the same letter, mentions the situation partner Pedro Mena, representative of the peasant movement, who suffers from diabetes and hypertension, and the authorities have confiscated his drugs. Finally, He adds that hinder them family visits and not receiving these inputs lead them.
Ortega absent in 73 Asamblea General of the UN
The dictator is uncomfortable with the international community. His last appearance in one of the top global forums of the United Nations was in 2007, does 11 years. Ortega has not shown his face since, much less now that we've all seen the criminal violence that has commanded to repress the people of Nicaragua.
Until last 12 of September, Ortega was confirmed as the penultimate speaker of the General Assembly. Nevertheless, currently, his name has disappeared from the list of those present at the forum that will host this 26 September in New York City.
Political analyst Bosco Matamoros Ortega argues that prevents its presence at the UN because he wants "Circumscribe the mechanism for resolving the crisis mediation of the Episcopal Conference and the Secretariat of SICA (Central American Integration System)”. In this way, the weakening of the international position after the slaughter Ortega April reflected.
Persecution of students expelled from UNAN-Managua
After spending two months holed up at the National Autonomous University of Managua 82 students were expelled for inciting "Academic disobedience" and perform "Vandals". Once identified, these university began to suffer a hunt by the National Police; which seeks to sweep away "Political leaders" the student movement. All this time the students have remained in hiding, taking refuge in safe houses, or trying to leave the country as.
One of the detainees is Jonathan López González, third year student of economics. His mother, Alma Gonzalez, confirms that it is in the cells of the Judicial Relief Address, better known as "El Chipote", former prison of the Somoza dictatorship. Regarding the arrest of his companion, Alejandra Centeno, also expelled from university, dice: "The process has been much harder and scary since we left the UNAN-Managua and in recent days have been very intense. On Friday (21 of September) we realize that we are expelled ... and (of) days later they grab Jonathan and it's like, first we were just very sad because we had been Yaritza (Mairena), Levy (Rugama) and Vicky (Obando) and now besides sad also we feel close and are aware that you can become the next ".
