He Colombian President Gustavo Petrocompared current Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debail, overthrown by the Sandinista Revolution on July 16, 1979.

From Chile, where several Latin American presidents met to mark the 50th anniversary of the coup d’etat carried out by the Chilean military to overthrow democratically elected President Salvador Allende, Peter thus referred to the Ortega government’s determination to seize assets poet and writer Gioconda Belli.

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On his X (formerly Twitter) account, President Peter expressed solidarity with the writer who She was also stripped of her citizenship and recalled that Gioconda Belli also fought against the Somoza dictatorship.

In Chile, singer Victor Hara He was killed for his sympathies with the Allende government on September 16, 1973, that is, five days after the coup against Chilean democracy.

Belli previously posted a message saying his home had been seized by Daniel Ortega’s government, a seizure that came a week after the Nicaraguan ruler expropriated all of the company’s assets. University of Central America (UCA)including teachers’ dormitories and leaving more than five thousand students without school.

Other writers such as the former Sandinista Sergio Ramirez Mercadocurrently in exile in Spain, suffered the same fate as journalists such as Carlos Fernando Chamorro, who was robbed of not only his personal property, but also the headquarters of his digital media Confidencial, always critical of the Ortega dictatorship.