Local media have reported several cases, but no one denounces due to fears of greater measures.
The political situation in Nicaragua is criticized from the inside – carefully – and from the outside. Now, according to sources, the Daniel Ortega regime is trying to control the departure of even officials for fear of any information leak.
Although for a long time opponents and critics of the regime have seen the obstacles to their free movement beyond the country’s borders grow, now it is reported that officials and collaborators, and therefore their families, are having obstacles to travel.
“There is paranoia that someone from the regime leaks something to foreign countries, the United States, the European Union, Canada and the United Kingdom (…) There is a fear that they will leak information related to corruption, crimes against them humanity, drug trafficking and money laundering, ”he told Infobae Roberto Samcam, a retired senior from the Nicaraguan Army who lives in exile.
This, because after the prohibition of entry to the United States of the Ortegas and other people linked to the regime who benefit from actions that undermine democracy, it is stipulated that whoever “determines that the actions that undermine democratic institutions and has taken concrete measures to help restore democracy in Nicaragua ”.
Local media have reported that this restriction has already been given to at least 10 people, whether they are officials or relatives of them, even businessmen.
Journalists have indicated that no one has wanted to publicly confirm what happened for fear of further reprisals and because they think it is temporary.
Background
The measure applied would have to do with the sanity of Ligia Gómez and Rafael Solís.
The first was a Sandinista secretary who worked at the Central Bank, who left the country in 2018 and came to give her testimony of what happened that year in the regime’s repression of the protests in a committee of the United States Congress.
While Solís was a Supreme Court judge who fled in 2019.
Javier Martínez, a senior police commissioner who has requested asylum in the United States, also went into exile recently. (I)
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