Nicaragua: No to the bloody presidential election of the Comandantissimo Ortega! By Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS 15 October 2021 The Supreme Electoral Council (SEC) summoned, on May 7, 2021, the general elections in which the electorate will elect the President of the Republic, the National Assembly (NA) and the members of the Central American Parliament (CAP). The SEC is one of the powers that the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), Sandinista National Liberation Front (SNLF), has used to impose the dictatorship it began to insert into the State since it took power on July 19, 1979. Prior to that announcement, on April 18, 2018, the FSLN inaugurated its campaign to re-elect the despot José Daniel Ortega Saavedra as the Head of State with a bloody repression of people who then began to exercise their human right to oppose its totalitarian, kleptocratic and brutal policies. The crimes that the SNLF committed at that time were reported by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), in part, as follows. "To date, the violent response of the State to the social protests initiated on April 18, 2018, executed under different modalities or stages of repression, has resulted in the death of 328 people, among them, 21 policemen and 24 children and adolescents; nearly 2 thousand injured; hundreds of arbitrary dismissals of health professionals; more than 777 people were deprived of their liberty. These violations remain in absolute impunity". Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) - Organization of American States (OAS) - Press Release - April 18, 2020
The elections in question will be another political spectacle that the FSLN will present as its "evidence" that the government it exercises—with the misleading seal of Gobierno de Reconciliación y Unidad Nacional or Government of Reconciliation and National Unity—since January 10, 2007, is not a totalitarian dictatorship, but a "popular democracy". The protagonist will be "the Sandinista people", whose predecessor was "the Somocista people", dispossessed of their political agency and excited by their prefabricated desire to reelect a liar as their messiah. This soldier, sick with aggressive ambition, continues to be the FSLN's primitive candidate for President of the Republic. The corruptor of the revolution still seems to have the power to complement the inadequacy of his followers by giving their existence security with his violence, sense with his ignorance and value with his mediocrity. If the Comandantíssimo Ortega does not officially impose a state of siege, the vote will be held under the conditions that the FSLN imposed in previous elections in which it participated as the ruling party—Sandinista electoral law, judges, police, mobs and violence—driven by its ambition to perpetuate itself as the power of the State. The imposition of those restrictions in the November 5, 2017 municipal elections produced seven people dead and the occupation of the government of most municipalities by the FSLN. Those elections, tinged with human blood, were observed by Haydée Castillo in her capacity as a representative of Panorama Electoral. The following is an excerpt from the interview between France 24 and Haydée Castillo, conducted on November 7, 2017.