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north nigeria, greens, a serial production bout event. steve declined with detailed coverage that you've been made and ignore many times before. now that allowed a death because they say that situation is much worse from around the world than these external affairs folks. persons is the government is following due process and the case and that authorities act against violation because your ah hi, anthony ok to day on the string, nicaragua, 4 months before presidential and legislative elections are due to take place. opposition, voices are being detained. we spoke to one activists who talked about her take a why this was happening, have a list and have a look. go 2018 president and we got our hydro vile repression, twisty countries,

opposition, group activist journalist or anyone will post. this is government ahead of election, knowing that he will lose if he opened free and fair elections are there has a rest at 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 candidacy that it is amazes analysis. what is your sense of the big question? i am going to be asking, is there room for opposition voice in nicaragua today? jumping to the comment, sexual be part of our discussion right here on the stream. let me say hi to the gas, introduce your pedal, t u, p. c on a has a miguel, the north take it to see you to see on a introduce yourself to the stream audience. higher on thing for any i need to read on central america analyst as international. 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 he has a miguel, welcome to the stream. introduce yourself trying to national audience. hi, my name is jose me and i am the executive director of the america 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 in the, at our way, where we are watching re, really, really serious setbacks. we're going to him off and not in just a moment. no, no. welcome to the stream. introduce yourself to international audience. thank you . thank you for inviting me. notice o nita seller juice and the commentaries to make your have several publications about political culture, democracy and media. and could i was in my letters

a work as a filmmaker are several, the commentaries about people. 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 friend. and if the minister, what they did was make the 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. a minute here, monica correct, you and brothers. and if you are watching this video, it is because i have been detained by takers regime. 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 home 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 these candidate the situation of me got always know something that happens in the last month or it's not something to happen 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 part of the lead for one family. and which country only has room for one way of thinking. so when we saw these maybe why lesser pricey was the speed of how these happen because that now we have 6 pre candidates in prison,

but we knew that this was going to happen. it's just a new step of these, you know, building this new political system has them again, this is bold. it's not even subtle. it is actually bolt is something that we haven't seen in the gain decades. this idea that the head of a state, in this case of the data could capture, could be pain. we know, due 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. ortega, his wife was the vice president. yeah. and, and anything important that the national community react also in this similar bald way. because otherwise, ortega setting is very, very negative precedent for the entire weekend. i also 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 rounding up on a mutually all the sectors where former allies of in even full were brothers actually or fatherly allies and dialogue and consensus. not private but

also directly to leaders political leaders. sorry. and be there on 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 an extra silence by police and the president. oh, take a, just a few weeks ago, he actually spoke about why these arrests, 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 status on those. 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,

against the lives of its citizens, by trying again to organize another april, 18 another to data for a little bit. and was 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 tried is the same, the same, not a step back. there will be no step back. only forward. no. i have lenore leaning in the same regardless, 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 a reality that he's great. 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 party. and what he does with this 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 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 by the speed. oh, same battle. 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 any building how political, right, they are traitors. go ahead as they miguel

me. i think it's important for the audience to understand that. ortega control congress, they 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, solve the 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, anti bodies. but primarily the charges against the leaders of the opposition

just because they have criticized the government. they have, for instance, celebrate this issue from the european union or washing done or cannot our, or the only ass to condemned what is going to make it. what that means then it target of legal repression and most of them are equal when he color the tension. 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 people say is that these politically strategies that are they guys building up high legal frame, 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 if considered 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 the social

networks that is against me right now. yeah. the other law reform to the cream and now called in 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 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 are building. our or our political leaders are in prison and they're not present to i judge and we expect that they are alive, increased them by 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 journalist miguel mendoza for lead street. 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 cold and it's quiet. there are no protest. i haven't been 12 years, at least. you know, people, industries do their own things. the malls are with people. there are always those companies, patrone, run the bows. well, any of minimum risk. but apart from that, you don't see, you know, in the stage of absolutely the integration. but as soon as you scratch it and you speak with people from the nice that will proclaim themselves because either 1st horse or jenny believes in some new illusion

on social media. they all because they are public employees. so they do their thing . and they also are very good and you can really see the one hand, the fear, the terror being pause with these would be slow to say, release sold. and on the other hand, the illusion that the section of what came out of the 20, which translated into very minimum games to round the folks between deposition and the government and most basic, the creation of the movement. why not? you know, that's basically what, what was social demand for change into an actual district. and they're inviting,

prevented your position groups to create together and create no way again with what we've been focusing on this this moment right now, where doesn't seem to be roof opposition. voice is, which is the big question we were asking for the show that have been improvements in terms of agriculture and infrastructure. knickerbocker is not all, i have to be careful about how i say this is really for nora 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 may be explain why ortega is still able to whole power. other than running the military, of course, did you do a lot of those institutions, but also he has affected some change. tell me about that because i think that's

important. we 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 poverty can walk 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 to come up with. so much code is like the goal there may like to say, i think the we have having court and changes in terms of practice. infrastructure lie, you know, any hoss be fine, you highways, new roles that were important in our society. i think for some are the something important that a lot of people realize that he restored the center of my now and that was really in forgotten. but the thing about, or 3rd guy is the 1st of all, he has been doing anything really to change the conditions that create poverty. and

he got out. so what he has on the road and i have tried to read those 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 political leave and also so little trust in the country right now. i mean one of the person by he put in prison right now, he's the manager of one of the biggest box. we meet that there are no indeed new investments. so there was a little protest at the beginning of the government, but 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 you get what has been historically very close to venezuela been as well as being, providing very significant support to me cuz our until day until recently, when the venezuelan economy collapse and, and that is our tele, explain the mobilization and demonstration social unrest that happens in the car in april and may of 2018. but there's 2 for that that will take us being able to build it's basic 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. is the patient of dr. see, this is a family who has a, may, i mean, accumulated tremendous wealth of you know, in

a country that is incredibly poor and time and that he's still just so big. he's why it's also the rest of the family and some members. i mean, you know, when i, when i, when i look at president will take, i think of the dual 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's 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, this 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, and rather gonzales castillo. thank you for watching. i'm the correct hearing. 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 super important to take into account. first of all, of course, external pressure is among the factors that need to take out or take most at the rate of internal. that's why he's dropping down. so that doesn't mean that the international should not, or she, she just, the crisis margins of the patient. we actually advocate to be the country in the

math where it wasn't because of the actually watch the interim information. human rights were the only looking at the country and 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. it is 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 a guy, he said the taker, 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, learning unforeseen events. nicaragua,

government is extremely unlikely to change courts and hold free and fair elections this year. the government has stood international pressure and sanctions. in the past, the main opposition presidential contender are all jailed free speech and freedom of the press have been thoroughly suppressed despite the efforts of the 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 must be 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? do you guys have a gun? and even when you have really strong voice as guns can killed this boy right now. so power and or thank you, has a miguel. thank you to see on a thank you. we could keep going. but i now 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,

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