MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s Nationwide Police gave the impression to ascertain Tuesday that retired Gen. Humberto Ortega, brother of President Daniel Ortega, has been below guard since native media studies emerged two days previous that police had surrounded his house.
The police stated in a commentary that the Well being Ministry had visited 77-year-old Humberto Ortega, who suffers from center issues, in his house and evaluated his well being with out ever pronouncing why he was once below police guard.
Native media reported that police confirmed up Sunday, the similar day on-line information outlet Infobae printed a long interview with Humberto Ortega, who led Nicaragua’s military all the way through the Eighties. In it, he mentioned his from time to time annoying courting together with his brother, which extra not too long ago has integrated extra informal conversations.
He additionally characterised his brother’s present management as “authoritarian, dictatorial” in explaining that after the chief of the sort of executive dies, it is extremely tricky for there to be continuity with the fast staff in energy.
Daniel Ortega has larger his grip on energy since striking down boulevard protests in 2018. Masses of hundreds of Nicaraguans have fled or been compelled into exile since.
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