withered celebration 44th anniversary of the overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo marriage that ruled Nicaragua under conditions of increasing internal instability. The speeches on July 19 contained numerous rants, both men’s and women’s speeches. Comments on social networks that, in one way or another, express a rejection of the existing rigidity and difficulties. Ortega asked a small audience to applaud the former Libyan autocrat. Muammar GaddafiHe was killed by a gang in 2011. “He wasn’t one of the quitters, the sellout,” he said of the man who ruled the African country for 42 years, a seductive figure for Ortegas, but impossible to match.
The President once again made an impassioned defense. alliance with Moscow. “Most of the Commonwealth of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) countries Fascist from Ukraine couldn’t sit there. Afterwards, they – the Europeans – insisted on trying to present a few paragraphs in which they blamed the Russian Federation for everything that was going on in Ukraine. So we couldn’t accept that.” Ortega sided with Vladimir Putin and avoided condemning the invasion. This time he was not accompanied by his Cuban and Venezuelan allies Miguel Díaz-Canel and Nicolás Maduro, respectively. In turn, the marriage was accompanied by their son and daughter-in-law.
“We oppose human obsolescence, the corruption of the soul, the fragmentation of the legitimate aspirations of evolution,” Murillo said in a convoluted and obscure language. “How to understand the ridiculous chorus of snakes, vicious vipers, fabricators, hired humiliates, fools, hitmen, and murderers crawling to serve their masters?” Murillo transformed into two figures, the First Lady with executive powers and a preacher. “Our people are glorious because they live by Spirit, by Faith.and from Love. That is why we say: Christ Jesus lives here, we live with Christ in the Heart, and this is Christian, socialist and supportive love”.
growing popularity
According to a survey by Costa Rica’s CID Gallup, more than 50% Nicaraguans He never listens to Ortega’s television channels or Murillo’s daily monologue. Other figures in the survey are clearer on the severity of fatigue: 75% of those interviewed lack political sympathy, only 13% support the Sandinista Frontin power and 61% disapprove of marriage management. For 56% of Nicaraguans, corruption has “increased” in the last six months, and 70% of people consulted believe Nicaragua is headed in the wrong direction.
Eight years ago, the results of a survey conducted by the same consultant revealed that Ortega generated 75% of positive reviews. Between one survey and another, in 2018 social epidemic This not only eroded the leadership, but also placed Nicaragua in an irreversible state, as it once was in Somoza. The protests were suppressed with a ferocity that reminded us of the gun-defeated dictatorship and that Ortega was a rebel. The hardening of the punitive character of the state is the mark of these last five years. It cannot be understood without the desire of the couple to stay in power.
According to ‘El Confidencial’ columnist Julio López Campos, “Today We have the lowest historical level of support for the dictatorship. That makes Ortega and Murillo the most disreputable characters in the country.” This process, he added, “is working quietly, not in Ortega, but largely within broad Sandinism, and in the nearest cores that are undoubtedly part of the regime’s state and political articulations. And it’s definitely sneaking up on the Army and Police”.
strict minority
This is a view shared by different sections of the opposition. “There is a solid minority around Ortega Murillo.. Neither the officers nor even the police feel that they are well. Frankly, it’s not even the soldiers – maybe about three or four of the top command – but beyond that, it seems to me they’re somewhere between uncomfortable and bad.” former Sandinista commander Dora María Téllez is currently in exile. “At this point, it is not in vain that more than 350,000 Nicaraguans have sought jobs, opportunities and left the country since 2018, simply because their grades were stolen, universities were closed, they could not get their diplomas, young people were persecuted and persecuted, people were imprisoned.”