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i think from serbia hungry. what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going for so that i could convey the headlines in the most human way possible. here it is here. we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. ah. hi, answer me ok to day on the string, nicaragua, 4 months before president show and legislative elections are due to take place, opposition, voices are being detained. we spoke to one activist who talked about her, take a why this was happening. have a listen. have a look. go to the new team president and thing. i got 100 violin repression, twisted countries opposition groups after this journalist or anyone will post. this is government ahead of election knowing that he will lose it. be opened to free and

fair elections. there has arrested 6 potential presidential candidates, including opposition leader. he has close all a democratic doors by limited the competition by arresting anyone who opposes his government or anyone who do it in his can candidate see that it is a nasal analysis. what is your this is a big question. i am going to be asking. is there room for opposition voice in nicaragua? today? jumping to the comment section, be part of our discussion right here on the stream. let me say hi to the guy, introduce your panel to you to see on has a miguel the know if they get to see you to see ana introduce yourself to the stream audience. hi iran. thanks for enemy. i'm on central america analyst. i think we'd be covering this for this for 3 years now and came out with the early warning report just before the actual quote dash. so we, we have been in the country and we look forward to your call so time it has

a mac. welcome to the stream, introduce yourself trying to national audience. hi, my name is jose me. i am the executive director of the american division. i see my rice watch. unfortunately, mika waste one of our top priorities in that region. and like the international crisis group, we just publish the report about human rights conditions unique at our way, where we are watching re really, really serious setbacks. we're going to hear more from that in just a moment. welcome to the stream, introduce yourself to international audience. thank you. thank you for inviting me not to anita. i'm a social or juice and the commentary. so maker have several publications about political culture, democracy and media. and i was in my letters a work as a filmmaker are several de commentaries about people in exile. so again, i'm going to start with a series of videos. in these videos, you will see

a presidential candidate, an opposition leader, another presidential candidate, and a former kind of mr minister. what they did was make videos and they released the videos. if i get in trouble, this is a video you will see, they were concerned, the fact that i'm able to show you the video shows that already in trouble have a list that have a look. manase, monica correct, you and brothers. and if you are watching this video, it is because i have been detained by your takers regime. and now i'm your list. if you're seeing this video, it means my house is being rated and i've been here be and seeing the video it means being captured when, when you go, if you are seeing this, it means i've been detained by the police. no, you start 1st of all, when you see this going on in your how country when you 1st started seeing these videos coming out, what did you think?

well, i wasn't surprised at all. actually. i know most of this candidate the situation you got, i always know something that happens in the last month or it's not something happening in the last 3 years. is actually i consider like what is happening right now, like the final step of plan has been consolidating for the last very years. these are they lose power in the 990 elections that he's convinced that he wants to create a new political system. that is not democracy and he's not based in election, but he's basing one part. but the lead for one family in which the country only hass grew for one wait thinking. so when we saw these maybe why lesser pricey was the speed of how these happen, because now we have 6 pre candidates in present. but we knew that this was going to happen. it's just a new step of these, you know, building this new political system as miguel. this is bold. it's not even subtle.

it is actually bolt, is something that we haven't seen in the game decades. this idea that the head of a state, in this case of the data could capture, could you know, the pain, we know the process with fake chargers, the, all of the leaders of the opposition peaceful, democratic opposition. any of them could potentially defeat ortega fair and transparent election. but the fact that he, he was able to, to make this move. i think it's very, we billing of the state of mind. law. ortega, his wife was the vice president. yeah. and. and anything important that the,

the national community react also him is similar both way because otherwise, or take a setting, a very, very negative precedent for the entire weekend. i will, through a double take when i have ortega and his wife, the vice president is quite shocking. i know there are political families, but that's a very cause political family to be on a, for us as an international community. can you break down who is being scoot top and why? well, i mean, we're going to be basically running up on a, mutually all the sectors where former allies of him, even were brothers actually or overly allies and dialogue and contains private but also directly to leaders political leaders,

sorry. and the move that a role in between team driving where hundreds of thousands of new ones, lot industry and demand for a change where basically with an extra violence by police and our police force the person. oh, take a, just a few weeks ago, he actually spoke about why these arrest these detainees were being detained. what did you say if you can pack it for me because i am a little bit confused by the reasoning behind this. so let's play the video then you can help me understand what is the say? we are not judging politicians here. we are not judging candidates. we're judging criminals. you've attempted against the countries against the national security and against the lives of its citizens by trying again to organize another april, 18 another to data for a little bit and was, yeah, to investigate,

denounce, prosecute those who have committed crimes against the homelands. those who have loans at money the same as when a drug trafficker is trying to do the same, the same, not a step back. there will be no step back. only forward. no, i have no leaning in miguel was shaking his head. no, you start 1st of all, what does that mean? can you understand what the president is saying that yes, i mean, you have to understand that a big a has to justify what he does. so he can not justify these in democracy. so what he's doing, he's justifying every out and that he's grading. what is this reality? me got our 2nd 3 divided between france, this and the nice that people and enemy, everybody else. so because he cannot let it in my, by, in south, in pre election, what he's doing, he's building this idea that we are kind of in our war, you know,

be proven to an enemy parties. and what he does with faith is the human eyes. anybody else that he's not pyre of a political party. so right now he's not, he's not talking about, for example, what happened in 2018 as every 1000000000 of the people against the victor sheet, which was what's happening. i mean, we're talking about progress about including almost 10 percent of the population. you know, it was really, really wide representation of the country, but still saying about what he's saying is that he, that was the intent of the top. and at the same time, he's saying that because of the, everybody that was involved in that rebellion always involve increase, exciting. the government is not a thing in the building. how politic right? they are traitors. go ahead as they miguel me. i think it's important for the audience to understand that. ortega control

congress, the judiciary, the chief prosecutor office, the supreme electoral counsel, the police and the army, and time. so few concentration of power last year by december he passed legislation to to apply to his. ringback to the leaders of the opposition and this legislation is like old fashion soviet legislation or penal chairs legislation which allows the government to go after any one could criticize ortega as the enemy of a state as the enemy of the fatherland and to embodies. but primarily the charges against the leaders of the opposition just because they have criticized the government. they have, for instance, celebrate from the european union or washing done or cannot our or the only ass

to condemned what is going on in me. could i what that means? then it target of legal repression, and most of them are equal when he got the pension, we know the process know acts those accept to a lawyer on a fabricated charges to. yeah, i think what i think that i think it's important that the bank will say, is that these politically strategies that are they guys building up high legal frames, you know, have constant was and there for laws that or they got proving the last 2 years that are really important. one is the law to protect. so bear anything which is pretty much trying to justify, to profess anyone that has a computer are trade or other law, is they fever, crime law, which is a load that is created to control any person by click the side or in their social networks. that is against me. right?

yeah, yeah. on the other low reform to the cream and now called inc, which now for example, if you are called by a judge to be like in prison, you don't have to be there in the past. you need to be there port for 48 hours and then to present it to a judge. now you can be in prison for 90 base and not to be presented to a job in the or. yeah, so it means by right now, this is what we're billing our or our political leaders are in prison and they're not present it to i judge. and we speculate that they are alive in prism, but we don't have any everybody got the, our ally present. you know, to see on i'm just looking at here correctly, the tang john list, miguel mendoza for lights, trees. and so when you start controlling the media, then you are controlling the narrative. you were in nicaragua a few months ago. what was the atmosphere like? can you describe it?

although on the surface it appears to be comb correction. it's quiet there, low protest. i haven't been one of us 2 years. at least you know, people, industries do their own things the most or build with people. there are always those companies, patrone, run the ballast and to, well, any of minimum and risk. but apart from that, you don't see, you know, in the stage of the absolutely the integration. but as soon as you scratch it and you speak with people from the nice that will proclaim themselves because are either 1st horse or genuinely believe in something new lucian, on social media. they all because they are public employees. so they think

they also are very good. so you can really proceed on one hand, the fear, the terror pause with these would be slow to say release sold. and on the other hand, the illusion that the section of what came out between t applied, which translated into very minimum games in this, in to around the folks between deposition and the government. and most basic, the creation of the movement. while that's basically what social demand for change into intellectual and inviting, prevented your position groups to create ben together and create know we get with

what we've been focusing on this this moment right now where it doesn't seem to be roof opposition, voices, which is a big question we were asking for the show, but i have been improvements in terms of agriculture and infrastructure. nicaragua is not all. i have to be careful about how i say this is really for lenora to say really about what you see in terms of progress in your home country rather than me as an outsider saying this because i think this is also important which maybe explain why all take is still able to whole power other than running the military, of course, and the judiciary of those institutions. but also he has affected some change. tell me about that because i think that's important. we can't have just half a discussion. go ahead. yeah, i mean i seen that actually before this broke, i already, we checked, well,

what's the result in care? so the fight against t, n e got locked in according to the better results to the biggest, more respects was started by the strong in the country around that we have pretty much the same levels that we had in years ago. so it has been come up with so much code is like the goal there may like to say, i think the we have had important changes in terms of the pastor charkha infrastructure like, you know, new cost on new highways, new roles that were important in our society, i think for be something important that a lot of people realize that he restored the center of my now and that was really and forgotten. but the thing about ortega is the 1st of all, he has been done anything really to change the conditions that create poverty and he got out. so what he has on the road and have tried to reduce extreme poverty, but we don't really mean a month result because of what happened or they got could do as more improving

direction by the country. so on a stable and political leave and also they so little trust in the country right now . i mean one of the person, but he put in prison right now. he's the manager of one of the biggest box that there are no new a new investments. so there was a little protest at the beginning of the government because of the lack because a lot of people lost their job because of their political, continuous, political crisis. pretty much we are kind of the same. okay. we were at the beginning of the government when at one point the notary is raising, which i think is a valid one. i mean, i agree, is that the them, i mean economic model of the battlement of mika has been mostly based on support from it is relax and he get what has been historically very close to

venezuela been as well as being, providing very significant support to me cuz i was until day until recently, when the venezuelan economy collapse and, and that is our tele, explain the mobilization and demonstration social unrest. that happened to me cuz i was in april and may of 2018. but this to poor that that will take us be able to build is basically basically try and tell support individuals who are close to the the ruling party and get some benefits. but they have reputation of ortega and he's family. you start with the patient of dr. see, this is a family who has a may, i mean, accumulated tremendous wealth you know, in a country that is incredibly poor and, and you still just take case why it's also the rest of the family and

members. i mean, you know, when, when i, when i look at president will take, i think of the george or well novel animal farm. when the animal was oppressed, so they overthrow the humans. and then the animals, them become the oppressors. and it rules like that cycle is happening right now. let me bring in an international voice. this is the un high commissioner for human rights, michelle bachelor. and then i'm going to put a couple of questions to you for my youtube audience. let's start with michelle. partially talking about the situation nickaligha. look, that is for more than 3 years, this council has been analyzing in depth the human rights, social and political crisis affecting nicaragua. regrettably, i must report that almost none of the recommendations made by my office to the state of nicaragua have been implemented. this crisis not only shows no signs of being overcome, but it has worse and alarmingly letterman. i have so many questions for you. guess

i'm going to get you to ask these very, very quickly, ed rather gonzales castillo. thank you for watching. i'm the cool. echoing my question is what difference would external pressure have? will take a will whole power no matter what? and the structure of corrupt power behind it will also supportive fiano. you take out what go ahead to point very important to take into account. first of all, of course, external pressure is among the factors that need to take out or take most of the rate of internal. that's why he's dropping down. so that doesn't mean that the international community should not, or she, she just the crisis margins of the patient. we actually advocate to be the country where it wasn't because of the actually watch the interim

information human rights, whether the only looking at the country in the last couple of years because the strike come to seem to be turned back into sort of. so let me see if i can squeeze . one more question really came to talk to you need to apologize if it's great to listen to this christopher as a, this one i'm going to put to you has a miguel. the sandinista is control 2 thirds of the electorate. good luck over throwing a democratically elected government. that is with make. what is your take very quickly, a leg. i mean that come on. ortega is a dictator. he controls everything. and there is no democratic institution in the country that he's able or capable to prevent abuse, to investigate abuse or so to how the or tag, i'll keep, you know, regime accountable for anything. so, you know, in this particular case,

where people are exposed to gross relations of human rights, the national responders not only allow but also demand the attention from the, from the international community. i think that the organization stays, for instance, have enough grounds to suspend. because we're from membership in the organization where like i said, because he's not a democracy, let me put the video comment to you know, because it's really interesting. it brings us for circle back to the november elections. this is kai failure and he's not hopeful about what these elections might look like. come off the back of his video immediately with a brief response during unforeseen events. nicaragua, government is extremely unlikely to change courts and whole free and fair elections this year. the government has stood international pressure and sanctions. in the

past, the main opposition presidential contenders are all jailed. free speech and freedom of the press have been thoroughly suppressed despite the efforts of independent journalists continuing. and the government has re energized members of its base. so there are very few incentives to share and hold genuinely free and fair elections. oh, i'm asking you to call yes. go ahead. yes, i mean, i agree, there seats away from the saying, well, we are in an almost impossible situation, but we are not company, we are a country and we have to continue finding solutions. so for me right now, one of the points that i want to raise that i think we don't talk and all is that we have to neutralize the control that what a bigger house or we're done over. they are meeting over day police and i think one of the things that they international,

the pull on the have to do is to really caught the money and the power that is getting to the army into the police. because right now the majority of the population is against ortega. if we have pre election, we are going to win. ortega the president right now, is that even if we have really strong voices, these guys have a gun and even when you have really strong voice as guns can killed this boy right now. so power and all. thank you. has a miguel. thank you to see on a thank you. we could keep going, but i know i have to wrap up, but i won't people to know where they can come for great installations. i have a look here on my laptop. you should be following right now. the new or has a miguel and to see on oh, for the takes an analysis on what is going on in nicaragua right now. thank you. you chief audience for your excellent questions. really enjoyed putting them to the guest. i will see you next time. take care everybody

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