Daniel Ortega will start a fifth ‘term’ on January 10. Several countries do not recognize the presidential elections for maneuvers against the opposition.
Tomorrow a new presidential term would begin in Nicaragua, but the majority of countries in the region do not recognize the elections of last November due to the actions of the regime, which prevented the participation of opposition candidates – the majority were arrested and others disqualified.
The ‘reelected’ president of Nicaragua, the Sandinista Daniel Ortega, will assume his fifth and fourth consecutive term this January 10, in a ceremony that will be held in the Plaza de la Revolución, in Managua, announced last Monday his wife, the vice president Rosario Murillo.
The 76-year-old ex-guerrilla, who has been in power since 2007 after having coordinated a Governing Board from 1979 to 1985 and presiding over the country for the first time from 1985 to 1990, obtained 75.87% of the votes in the general elections of November 7, with its main contenders in prison.
“They are going to take the oath of all of us, the oath to the president,” said Murillo, who did not say at the moment which heads of state and government will attend the inauguration.
In her opinion, in the controversial elections of November 7, the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) defeated “the devil”, alluding to the anti-government demonstrations that broke out in April 2018 and left hundreds of deaths, detained and tens of thousands in exile, and that the Executive calls an attempted coup, recalls Eph.
The repression caused at least 355 deaths, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), although local organizations raise the figure to 684 and the Government recognizes 200.
For the cartoonist and journalist Pedro Molina, this act of possession will be as illegitimate as the electoral farce that led to it.
“The entire international community, even the few governments that support it, are clear about the illegitimate nature of the so-called ‘elections’ of last November and the fact that Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo simply usurp power at the point of repression in Nicaragua. . The few regimes that support it, by behaving in a similar way themselves, see no major problem in that. The question is what the majority of the international community that prides itself on having a commitment to democratic ideals will do in the face of such a fact, ”says Molina.
China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and Mexico have recognized Ortega’s new term and will have representatives at the inauguration.
Molina believes that now Ortega will try to sell a farce of dialogue and will seat some false counterparts, as he did with the collaborationist parties that “in exchange for crumbs accompanied him in the electoral farce” and will thereby try to sell the world the idea that the socio-political situation is improving, but the truth is that political hostages under torture conditions are still being held. That thousands and thousands continue to leave the country and that all the crimes committed by the FSLN regime since 2018 continue in total impunity.
“No one, inside or outside Nicaragua, should be willing to accept as real any of these farces with which Ortega and Murillo seek to scratch a legitimacy that they do not deserve in the least,” he adds.
Nicaraguan political analyst Eliseo Núñez indicates that in the coming months Ortega will try to turn his country into a geopolitical piece of information to have China and Russia as allies. Although, unlike Venezuela, Nicaragua does not have energy resources, but it can contribute other things.
“The issue of migration is an issue that Nicaragua can handle in favor of China and Russia, because this is the great issue of political distraction that the United States has, for which it tries to keep its borders closed and has also paid less attention to other issues such as the Middle East (and other areas of influence of them), ”says Núñez.
And migration does not have to be only Nicaraguan, but it can allow transit to those arriving from other countries bound for the United States.
In addition, in the case of Russia, they have relationships due to its geolocation system and it could be a platform from which to plan technological attacks, according to Núñez, who says this in reference to the satellite station that the Eurasian country installed in 2017 and is part of the Glonass satellite navigation and location system (the Russian GPS).
Meanwhile, the analyst Luciano García also points out that in addition to the difference in resources with Venezuela, in Nicaragua there are no opposition political parties that can come out to protest.
“By not counting on the minimally minimal conditions of a rule of law, what is coming in Nicaragua is a collapse of the republic, of all the institutions. Actually, the one who has given a coup d’état is Ortega, something that makes him a dictator, ”says García.
He adds that Ortega could not sustain himself economically for more than two years and will require foreign investment and loans to spend on infrastructure. So it is going towards a collapse of the economy.
“With the only thing that the Nicaraguan people will be able to survive is with remittances and what little remains, as we lived in the 80s. That is why Ortega seeks international supporters to pressure governments such as the United States, Canada or Spain … so that they can recognize it, and he has the political prisoners to generate a negotiation, “says García, for whom one of the concerns is that the internal problem continues to degenerate, since he affirms that groups in the mountains that have armed themselves – the authorities deny it or they give little importance to it because of its size – and believe that democratic countries must ‘drown’ the regime or else a more delicate path would be unleashed. (I)
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