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Nicaragua rounds up opposition challengers to Ortega
published : 10 Jun 2021 at 00:45 Nicaragua presidential contender Felix Maradiaga has been held in an investigation into alleged acts against sovereignty, terrorism and backing international sanctions against the government
MANAGUA - Nicaragua had four presidential contenders in detention Wednesday, legally ruling them out of November elections as Daniel Ortega moved against challengers and elicited condemnation of his dictator tactics.
On Tuesday, police detained two more would-be presidential rivals as well as two other opposition figures, as the international community protested.
On Twitter, the secretary general of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, urged the release of Juan Sebastian Chamorro Garcia, 50, and all other political prisoners in #Nicaragua.
WHEN Viscount Muirshiel, the former Scottish Secretary of State, John (Jack) Maclay, died in August 1992, aged 86, a very full appreciation appeared in these pages. Written by R.D. Kernohan, it began: “Viscount Muirshiel was a man of many honours, and of honour. But he lived to so ripe an age as a friend of good causes and an elder statesman beyond politics that Jack Maclay (as he was until 1964) was almost forgotten as a once formidable politician. “He was a powerful Secretary of State for Scotland under Harold Macmillan (1957-62) but his political role never quite matched his abilities or potential.
A Shahzadi’s Murder, and the Betrayal of an Arakanese King Saving the ‘enemies of the regime’
If you have seen the movie Scarlet Pimpernel or read the novel by the Baroness Orczy, you know how difficult it is for secret networks operating in a nation torn by revolution, civil war and a military coup to smuggle out persons opposing the new dictatorial regime.
Revolutionaries, thinkers, journalists, political non-conformists or even soldiers unwilling to support the new dictatorial regime have always needed to leave their nations to move to safer havens at all junctures of history.
This is now happening in Myanmar, rocked by the grasping of power from a democratically elected government by a military junta. Some opponents of the Myanmar dictatorial regime were lucky to escape with the help of reincarnated Scarlet Pimpernels and Schindlers.
Last house for the Regent In Amersham-on-the-Hill, 59 years ago this week, 100s of people could be seen queueing down Sycamore Road. They were waiting in line for the Regent box office to buy tickets for the Audrey Hepburn film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Although a popular movie, the high demand for tickets was because the final show, on Saturday 10 March 1962, was to be the last ever screening at the cinema and everyone in the town wanted to be there. The fate of the cinema had been sealed the previous year when Amersham Council sanctioned the application by British Land for its change of use. The owners of the Regent, Shipman & King, held only a lease on the premises and this had now expired.