“I feel free! I feel free, in the name of Jesus! Free!” He exclaimed until today. Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS),
Arturo McFields, who rebelled against the Government of Daniel Ortega with a harsh and unexpected statement in which he denounced the “dictatorship” in his country and demanded the release of imprisoned opponents.
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In a virtual interview with the portal ‘100 percent Noticias’, the Nicaraguan explained that he made the decision to rebel against the Ortega Executive this Wednesday during an ordinary telematic session of the OAS Permanent Council, for humanitarian reasons upon learning of the suffering of the “political prisoners”.
“It was not easy. I am afraid because I know what they are capable of. I am afraid, but I could not continue defending the indefensible, and I think that those who are in prison, those who are sick, with fungus on their feet, with chronic diseases, rotting in jail, they don’t deserve it,” he said.
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McFields, a journalist by profession, declared himself particularly shocked by the testimony of imprisoned opposition leader Támara Dávila.who has a five-year-old daughter and in the nine months she has been locked up they have not allowed her to see her.
“That testimony made me cry at dawn in my house and I said: (she is) the same age as my girl, with the difference that I go to my girl, I hug her, I kiss her, I pray with her, but Támara Dávila he cannot see his daughter, he cannot hug her,” he said.
“What ideology can justify that? That is no longer political, it is something else. And those of us who are Christians know that there are things that are not justified (…) Preventing a mother from seeing her five-year-old daughter years, it’s not politics, it’s not justice, that’s something else,” he reproached.
McFields assured that before today he had not slept well for 15 days, that he only spoke with his wife and that he was in a “spiritual struggle”. Now, after his historic speech at the OAS session, he said he feels happy, at peace, that he will be able to sleep peacefully, and that his daughter has “a father he can admire.”
Likewise, he maintained that within the Ortega government “there are many who yearn for that freedom, but not everyone wants to speak,” and that thousands have chosen to resign in silence. In his case, he said that if he was going to make “a mistake, I’m going to make it big” and he would not leave the government quietly, and that now he feels at peace with himself, although “officially unemployed.”
McFields said that the ambassador of a country, which he did not identify, offered him political asylum, which, he said, he has not yet valued. He also clarified that he can return to Nicaragua, “but I cannot leave”, because the official who arrives in the country “they take away his passport and in my case they have reserved a special cell for me in El Chipote”, a prison of the Directorate of Aid Judiciary of the National Police. He also denied that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “is giving him thousands of dollars,” as Ortega supporters comment.
“It doesn’t exist, but I know I’m going to eat tomorrow. I don’t have a scratched picture,” he said. He assured that a government official warned him to prepare “because they are going to deploy a campaign to kill the messenger, that since they cannot kill my ideas, they are going to try to kill me morally, to discredit me, that I am “against”, a mercenary ” , which he minimized, because “people who love me know me.”
On the other hand, he said he did not feel hatred for the Sandinista government, but that he hopes that Nicaragua “returns to be a Republic”, where free elections are held and newspapers circulate, because, he argued, “those who knew democracy, like to live in democracy “.
He made a call to the workers of the State “that hope be stronger than fear” and “that we manage to defeat fear and we can triumph with hope.”
Ortega appointed McFields as ambassador to the OAS in October of last year, after the organization demanded that Nicaragua release the imprisoned opponents “immediately” ahead of the presidential elections on November 7.
However, the relationship between the OAS and Nicaragua did not improveto the point that Managua announced his departure from the organization in November, which did not recognize the result of the elections in which Ortega won a fifth term.
After his words, the Nicaraguan government distanced itself from the figure of McFields and assured that its representative before the OAS is Francisco Campbell Hooker, ambassador to the United States. EFE
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