Sandinismo disqualifies Cristiana Chamorro, the main opposition candidate

Daniel Ortega was not willing to allow history to repeat itself. The Sandinista Prosecutor's Office has disabled tonight in Managua (early morning in Spain) Cristiana Chamorro, daughter of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, with the aim of clearing the electoral path of the revolutionary leader ahead of the November presidential elections.

The decision is as arbitrary as the process opened two weeks ago against the presidential candidate and main person in charge of her mother's foundation: the Sandinista body orders her disqualification from public office for being in criminal proceedings, without even a sentence involved..

Doña Violeta, as she is known in Nicaragua, starred in a historic milestone against all odds in 1990 by prevailing at the polls over the all-powerful revolutionary leader, who controlled all the strings of power in the Central American country since they were defeated by force of arms in 1979. to the dictator Anastasio Somoza.

The same dictatorship that years before murdered the journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, martyr for freedoms and father of Cristiana. The government of the presidential couple of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo accuses Chamorro of money laundering and diversion of the foundation's funds, a circumstance denied in advance by the US State Department, one of the foundation's donors as well. than other European countries.

In search of forced testimonies against Cristiana, the Sandinistas arbitrarily detained two of her former workers, Marcos Gómez and Marcos Fletes.. He also incriminated several journalists.

The Prosecutor's Office has also announced tonight that it has launched a formal accusation against Chamorro for “abusive and ideological falsehood” management within a process of money, property and asset laundering.

“A statement from the Prosecutor's Office, Ortega's hitmen, strips Cristiana Chamorro of her civil and political rights. Absolutely illegal and unconstitutional. She has not been charged, tried or convicted.. The Ortegas intend to prevent him from entering the election of candidacies,” denounced Dora María Téllez, former commander of the revolution and today a Sandinista dissident..

The journalist Cristiana Chamorro had registered hours before in the Alianza Ciudadana coalition to participate in the internal process in search of a unitary candidate. Since he made public his intention to lead the opposition, he has been first in all the polls. In fact, the latest poll carried out by Gallup appeared with 21% at the head of a squad of almost a dozen opposition candidates, who add up to 46% of support compared to 33% of the presidential couple..

Both Cristiana and her brother, the exiled journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, are the two personalities in the country with the highest popularity index..

“I express my absolute rejection of the unfair political persecution against Cristiana Chamorro, which is born from the fear that the dictatorship has of a free electoral process.. The arbitrary action of the regime deserves the broadest national and international repudiation,” cried Félix Maradiaga, another of the opposition pre-candidates.