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| Is PrezOrtega & Wife (and Vice Prez) Murillo's Reign Coming to an end? | |
| 2024-08-26 | |
| [ForeignPolicy] Last month, Nicaraguan police raided the office and home of Finance Minister Ivan Acosta, who was forced to resign; allegedly for acts of corruption, but more likely because he had fallen out of favor with the presidential couple. Employees in the Finance Ministry now fear a wave of dismissals, similar to those that occurred following Murillo's purge last year of the Supreme Court, which resulted in the mass firing of some 900 government workers; including magistrates, secretaries, janitors, drivers, and even Ortega's first-born son, Camilo Ortega Herrera, who led the court's technical services department. They canned the IT guy! On Aug. 6, Nicaraguan news outlet Confidencial reported that in late July, Murillo dismissed Ortega's chief police escort, Commissioner-General Marcos Alberto Acuntilde;a Avilés, who had served as a loyal member of the president's security team since the 1990s. All this reveals "an internal crisis tied up with the growing power of Rosario Murillo," said Téllez, the former FSLN commander, who served as Nicaragua's health minister from 1979 to 1990. "Rosario is not satisfied with appointees who are unconditionally supportive of Daniel Ortega. She wants people who are unconditionally supportive of her." -------------------------
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| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #2 in about 1900 Nicaragua put out a postage stamp with a volcano on it probably the single most important event that led to the canal being built in Panama |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-08-26 11:27 |
| #1 One of the reasons that the construction of an inter-ocean canal occurred in Panama rather than Nicaragua was that the latter government could not be trusted. In Panama a pro-canal cabal was created that chose independence from Colombia. It used propaganda to demonstrate that volcanos in Nicaragua would pose a threat to any canal built there. Panama won the day and a canal, which was likely twice as expensive as the proposed Nicaragua canal was undertaken. |
| Posted by: Sligum Hupomoling9524 2024-08-26 08:31 |