Argentina: International Arrest Warrant of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega · Global Voices

To arrest the Nicaraguan president, and his wife for systematic human rights violations ordered a judge to . The Argentine judge requested that ten Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, be arrested on the same charge. CORVERSE “Federal judge Ariel Liho ordered the subpoena and (edited) an international arrest warrant for Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo,” said on Monday (30.12.2024), at the French News Agency Dario Richarde, the lawyer who had filed the request. The latter is based on the principle of jurisdiction, which allows countries to prosecute crimes against humanity no matter where they were committed. The government of Ortega and his wife “is perhaps the most bloody dictatorship ever on the American continent”, Risarte appreciated. CORVERSE Crimes accused include “the murder, serious deprivation of freedom, forced disappearances of people, torture, deportation or forced transfer of populations and prosecution of a group or a collective.” The request was filed in August 2022 by a group of professors of the University of Buenos Aires under Richarde. An arrest warrant was also issued against “never by officials of the state, police, military and paramilitary structure for crimes against humanity,” he added. The request refers to a “criminal repression plan” and is based on testimonies of victims who remain anonymous. Legal action “was gradually widened as the dictatorship was undergoing new human rights violations,” the lawyer said. “No one can be protected” from the “suppressive model” implemented in Nicaragua by the government of President Ortega, who threatens human rights in a way that “has no precedent”, the non-governmental organisation Amnesty had warned in mid-December. The Santinist rebel who became a Central American Putin Daniel Ortega, a 79-year-old former rebel who led Nicaragua in 1980 after the triumph of the Santinist revolution, came back to power in 2007. He changed the Constitution a dozen times, which allows him primarily an unlimited number of posts. He is accused by the United States, the European Union and Latin American countries of establishing an authoritarian regime along with his wife, which will become “co-chairman” thanks to a constitutional amendment adopted in November by Parliament, which controls the ruling party, the Sandinist Front for National Liberation (FSLN, left). The amendment is expected to be ratified at a forthcoming parliamentary session in January. It provides for a “presidency of the Republic (…) consisting of a president and a co-chairman” to be appointed in elections held “every six years” and not more every five years. The two leaders will coordinate the “legislative, judicial and electoral bodies” or even those who run regions or municipalities, independent under the current Constitution.