From our Cubanization of the Caribbean Bureau with some assistance from our Latrine American Triangle of Doom Bureau
Having just legalized arbitrary arrests and banishment for those who represent a “social risk”, Nicaragua’s dictatorship immediately rounded up 30 or more citizens — including doctors and journalists — and whisked them off to prison. No doubt about it, the Cubanization of Dyscaragua is now nearly complete. Meanwhile, in another corner of Castro, Inc.’s Caribbean empire, the latest count on Venezuela’s political prisoners stands at nearly 2,000, including many adolescents. Will having Trump in the White House slow down or halt the Cubanization of the Caribbean? Let’s see what happens . . .
From Havana Times
Between November 22 and 28, at least 30 Nicaraguans have been abducted by the National Police, the repressive arm of Daniel Ortega’s and Rosario Murillo’s authoritarian regime. The arbitrary arrests occurred in the wake of the docile legislature’s illegal approval of a Constitutional reform that totally revamps Nicaragua’s political system, establishes a co-presidency, and annuls the citizens’ individual and public liberties.
We’ve confirmed at least 30 illegal detentions, plus another series of denunciations that have yet to be verified,” the Blue and White Monitoring organization affirmed on its social media.
The Monitoring group assured that among the detained are some entire families, including elders and children. It also stressed that the relatives of those detained “have been deprived of information regarding the whereabouts and condition” of their family members, in “a flagrant violation of their human rights.”
The prisoners were taken from their homes with no warrant and they were not allowed access to lawyers or family visits. Such practices violate the minimal guarantees established under international law, noted the interdisciplinary team that registers and consolidates the complaints of human rights violations linked to the political crisis Nicaragua has been engulfed in since April 2018.
The Nicaraguan Democratic Convergence, an opposition group made up of banished Nicaraguan dissenters, declared: “This escalation is a sample of the regime’s scheme of absolute control, in which the violence also extends to the families of those abducted, who are denied information that would allow them to confirm the whereabouts and condition of their loved ones.”
Up until now, neither the Nicaraguan government nor the National Police have issued any statement regarding these detentions, in line with their proceedings during previous waves of arbitrary arrests.
According to the Monitoring group, detentions have taken place in at least ten departments of Nicaragua, the majority in Leon, Masaya, and Esteli.
Among those detained in Leon is journalist Leo Catalino Carcomo, and retired physician Arnoldo Toruño. The Leon raids have been led by Police Chief Fidel Dominguez, an official known as one of the dictatorship’s most loyal repressors, affirmed the media outlet Divergentes.
This is the second time that Leo Carcamo has been detained by Ortega’s police force. In January 2019, the journalist was also held without cause, but he was freed hours later. Since then, he has distanced himself from any contact with the media.
Dr. Toruño, a former dean of the UNAN Medical School in Leon, has also previously been under the regime’s eye. In November 2019, the Police arbitrarily searched his Leon home; and in 2021, he denounced that he was being watched by plainclothes figures stationed outside his home.
Another Leon doctor, Pablo Amaya was also detained recently. Amaya former president of the now-shuttered Association of Nicaraguan Pneumonologists, was forcibly removed from his clinic on November 26, according to the media outlet Dario Medios. This specialist had also previously been a victim of the Ortega regime’s repression. In 2019, after he joined a group outside the Leon Cathedral to sing the Nicaraguan National Anthem, he was held and beaten by paramilitary, who later turned him over to the police. However, he was only kept there for a few hours.
The citizens detained in Leon on the weekend of November 23 and 24 were taken to Managua, Divergentes reported, and lodged in the cells of the infamous El Chipote jail.
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Well, you can’t say these dirtbags are not eminently Latrine–they’re totally authentic representatives of the species, albeit more overtly freakish than some. Again, no Cuban should accept being “Latin.”