Nicaragua’s Police Chief denies there’s repression, boasts Nicaragua is ‘safest nation in Central America’

From our Leftist Latrine American Triangle of Doom Bureau

Taking another page from the Castro playbook, Nicaragua’s chief police commissioner is denying that there is any repression in the Central American Cuban colony. He is also denying the high incidence of crime and parroting Fidel’s infamous statement about Cuba being “the safest nation . . .” blah, blah. [see previous post on Cuba’s crime wave]. Honestly, reporting on Cuba and its colonies requires having a lot of patience with the constant bullshit they spew.

Abridged from Confidencial

The security indicators cited by the head of the Nicaraguan National Police, First Commissioner Francisco Díaz, to label Nicaragua as the “safest country in Central America” do not reflect the reality of public safety in the country, according to security analysts consulted by CONFIDENCIAL.

“Our country is the safest in Central America and one of the safest in Latin America,” declared Diaz during an official activity marking 45 years since the founding of Nicaragua’s National Police force. Immediately afterwards he boasted that Nicaragua “maintains a homicide rate of 6 murders for every 100,000 inhabitants.”

Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele has used similar claims  to assert that the homicide rate in his country has fallen to 2.4 for every 100,000 residents.

“Calling Nicaragua or El Salvador the safest countries in the region doesn’t fit the reality. You can’t rest your case on only one indicator like the homicide rate, because there’s data showing that the rate of robberies and sexual violence have increased in nearly all the countries,” explained an expert on citizen security, who asked to remain anonymous.

In his speech, Francico Diaz added: “only 2.6% of the crimes committed in the country are dangerous crimes – 97.4% of the complaints we receive are for minor crimes.”

Ortega’s in-law  also stressed that Nicaragua continues being a reference point in Latin America for its high levels of security, and that there are neither Maras, gangs, nor cartels; while narcotraffickers have neither cells, bases, nor clandestine landing strips in the country. He added that from September 2023 to September 2024, the Nicaraguan police intercepted 1.7 tons of cocaine and 3.1 tons of marijuana.

Another analyst consulted by Confidencial added that the statistics published by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo “aren’t reliable,” since “there’s no way of verifying them.”

“Although assassinations themselves can’t be hidden, because there’s a victim’s body present, the official data can hide them. What’s in doubt here is the official statistic, which in the case of Nicaragua can’t be believed due to the type of government policies that exist,” they asserted.

Similarly, the expert questioned the data “given the type of institution the Police have become – a repressive institution that has lost all legitimacy and trust.”

Nicaragua’s National Police have become the repressive arm of the Ortega-Murillo regime and this repression has increased significantly since the September 2019 imposition of a de facto police state in the country.

This institution has assumed the job of persecuting and jailing citizens the regime sees as a threat, including political opponents, business leaders, activists and even high-level public officials who have fallen out of favor. In the same way, they squash any free expression or even religious expression.

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