The wife and daughter of an opponent of President Daniel Ortega were arrested on September 13. Extrajudicial arrests have been multiplying in the country since the re -election of the former Guerillero Sandinististe.
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The French Embassy in Nicaragua faces a diplomatic puzzle since the extrajudicial arrest of two Franco-Nicaraguan. The wife and daughter of an opponent of President Daniel Ortega – Jeannine Horvilleur, 63, and her daughter, Ana Carolina Alvarez, 43 years old – were arrested on Tuesday September 13, at their home in Managua, the capital of This small central American country caught in a repressive escalation. After political activists, journalists and members of the clergy, the regime of the former Guerillero Sandinistist targets the relatives of his opponents.
“I am without news of them”, is alarmed on the phone, Javier Alvarez Zamora, husband and father of the two women incarcerated in Managua in the prison of El Chipote, sadly famous for her acts of torture. Mr. Alvarez Zamora himself narrowly escaped his arrest: “On September 13, around 11 pm, dozens of police officers invaded my house. I was out. Not finding me, they stopped them for me Force to deliver me, “sighs this 67 -year -old retired economist. That evening, his son-in-law, Felix Roiz, was also arrested. Mr. Alvarez Zamora has managed to run away. Now exiled to Costa Rica, he puts all his hopes in hexagonal diplomacy.
Prudence reigns at the French Embassy in Managua who refuses to comment. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, contacted by Le Monde, says “follow up closely the situation of our two compatriots” and have “contacted the Nicaraguan authorities. The embassy is fully mobilized, in connection with the post consular attachment to Costa Rica “.
The Nicaraguan authorities did not confirm these three arrests which took place without arrest warrant. “Their only offense is to be from my family,” deplores Mr. Alvarez Zamora. The opponent ensures that he is not an active activist within the revolt movement born in April 2018 to claim the departure of Mr. Ortega, in power from 1979 to 1990 and from 2007 to today, and his wife, Rosario Murillo , his vice-president. At the time, the police had killed more than 350 people among the demonstrators, 2,000 injured and hundreds of arbitrary arrests, pushing exile more than 100,000 Nicaraguans, according to the Inter -American Commission for the Rights of Man (Cidh).
More than 200 political prisoners
Four and a half years later, the showdown engaged by Mr. Ortega and M Me Murillo beheaded the opposition. The presidential couple was re -elected hands on November 7, 2021, during an election without competitor, after having canceled the legal statutes of the three opposition parties. Since then, extrajudicial arrests have multiplied.
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