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Nicaragua Police Arrest Ortega’s Third Potential Enemy | Nicaragua – Illinoisnewstoday.com

Nicaragua Police Arrest Ortega’s Third Potential Enemy | Nicaragua – Illinoisnewstoday.com

Nicaraguan police arrested another potential challenger to the president Daniel Ortega, The third opposition candidate for the November 7 elections detained last week. Felix Maladiaga was arrested after being called to the Attorney General’s office to make a statement. He is being investigated on suspicion of a crime against the government. His campaign said in

Nicaraguan police arrested another potential challenger to the president Daniel Ortega, The third opposition candidate for the November 7 elections detained last week.

Felix Maladiaga was arrested after being called to the Attorney General’s office to make a statement. He is being investigated on suspicion of a crime against the government.

His campaign said in a statement police stopped them after he, his driver, and his lawyer left the Attorney General’s office.

Shortly before his arrest, Maladiaga was questioned by journalists about his work as a former director of a non-governmental group focused on economic research, whether he had a relationship with drug traffickers, and whether he traveled to the United States. He said.Demand sanctions against Nicaragua..

He said he had told them that he had demanded sanctions on “government officials who committed crimes against humanity rather than punishing people.”

His arrest Christiana ChamorroArturo Cruz Seceira, who remains under house arrest, and Arturo Cruz Seceira, a former ambassador to the United States who was arrested on Saturday under the controversial “rebellion” law, were passed in December. On Monday, the judge ordered Cruz to be held for three months during the investigation.

Julie Chung, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, said on Twitter that Maladiaga’s “arbitrary” and earlier arrests “undoubtedly confirm Ortega as a dictator.” .. The international community has no choice but to treat him that way. “

Ortega aims to become president for the fourth consecutive term. His government is actively working to clear the challenger’s field. Maladiaga was a candidate for the blue and white national unification of the opposition coalition.

According to a police statement, Maladiaga “was to carry out acts of weakening independence, sovereignty, and self-determination, inciting foreign intervention in domestic affairs, demanding military intervention, acts of terrorism and destabilization. “Organize with funding from the forces” was being investigated. Proposes and controls the disruption of economic, commercial and financial activity to the State and its institutions, demands, praises and praises the imposition of sanctions on Nicaragua and its citizens, and undermines the country’s best interests.

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