The Nicaraguan Police retained the cell phones and computers of retired General Humberto Ortega, brother ofthe Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortegaafter he declared to the Argentine media Infobae that the “dictatorial” power of the 78-year-old president “has no successors” within his family and Sandinismo and that after his death there must be elections.
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In the interview with Infobae, the retired general considered that his brother, who has been in power in Nicaragua since 2007, does not have suitable successors and that in the event of his eventual death there will be a great power vacuum and elections must be called.
“If Daniel Ortega is missing, for me, Humberto Ortega, there is no possibility that anyone from that power group can exert influence in a process,” said the retired general.
When asked if neither the president’s wife nor Rosario Murillo, who is vice president of Nicaragua, the former military chief ruled that no one.
“No one. No one. I don’t want to mention anyone in particular. Without Daniel there is no one, because, with everything and everything, Daniel is the only historical leader who still retains the credits of that (political) struggle. Without Daniel I see very It is difficult for there to be two or three that come together,” he indicated.
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“Much less one in particular, and more difficult in the family. Children who have not had the accumulation of a political struggle. Not even Somoza was able to establish his son. With Daniel’s absence it would be very fragile to sustain everything he has achieved so far sustain with great effort and with enormous complexities,” he reasoned.
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Only the Army can avoid chaos, says former general
This Monday, the former head of the Army was summoned to a meeting at the headquarters of the National Police with the President’s Minister of Security Affairs, Commissioner Horacio Rocha, of which no details are known, according to the information.
“In the sudden absence of Daniel Ortega, there would first be enormous confusion and impossibility, for me, for the civilian part of the Government and the party (Sandinista Front) to assume solid power,” the general insisted.
For Humberto Ortega“the only thing that can solve this vacuum, and ensure that there is no anarchy and chaos in the country, is the Army. First of all, the Army. Coordinated with the National Police. And look for a way out in the short term, perhaps a year or less, to call an electoral process, whether it is the one scheduled for 2026,” he stated.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which was accentuated after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega, in power since 2007, was re-elected for a fifth and fourth consecutive term, with his main contenders in prison and whom he later expelled from the country and deprived of their nationality and political rights.
EFE
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