Nicaragua police detain another opposition presidential candidate | Nicaragua News
Arturo Cruz was detained after the opposition presidential candidate Christiana Chamorro was placed under house arrest for three days.
The Nicaraguan police detained the opposition politician Arturo Cruz, detained the second presidential candidate in less than a week, and in November President Daniel Ortega sought to maintain his power. Control the election before escalating the battle.
According to his assistants, Cruz is an academic who served as Nicaragua’s ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2009, and was detained after arriving at Managua Airport from Washington DC on Saturday.
The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the national police is investigating Cruz on the grounds that “he attacked Nicaraguan society with strong evidence”.