Q24N (El Pais) The delirious accusations that the authorities of the Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime have leveled against the director of the Miss Nicaragua organization, Karen Celebertti, who was banished last week, and her husband, Martín Argüello Leiva, and son, Bernardo Argüello Celebertti, kidnapped and disappeared, have provoked astonishment and resounding condemnation among…
1 abril, 2021
It’s not only improbable, it’s unimaginable that President Daniel Ortega would agree to a free exchange with independent journalists. They might do what journalist Andres Oppenheimer did when he interviewed Ortega in 2018. They might rub his nose in every one of the notions that – without waiting for responses or questioning – he calmly tosses out, like a batter from the past. He wouldn’t dare face pitchers who throw sliders and blazing fastballs that tear his arguments to shreds. No way.
Ortega’s public discourses are ever less interesting, due to his insistence on turning his back to the national reality to hide the obvious. In his latest public appearance, he began by recounting the feats of the Literacy Crusade. Among the pillars of this crusade were a number of figures like Jesuit priest Fernando Cardenal, who ended up drastically opposed to him.