Newspaper Press, elder in Nicaragua and critic of the government of Daniel Ortega, condemned this Monday disappearance of one of the columnists Guillermo Miranda, who is also the director of the Forces of Veterans of the War of Resistance of Nicaragua, an organization opposed to the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party.

“Columnist of the newspaper La Prensa G.Willermo E. Miranda has been missing since Thursday, October 19th. He does not answer calls on his mobile phone and did not send his opinion piece for publication this Monday, as he usually does,” said the publication, whose facilities were expropriated by the state in the context of the crisis that Nicaragua has been experiencing since then. April 2018.

In accordance with Press, whose editorial team was forced to leave the country in July 2022 after the arrest of two of its employees, Miranda, a lawyer and consultant, publishes an opinion piece weekly, where he defends democracy, free and fair elections, “remembers the events of April 2018 and makes proposals to improve the country’s political system.”

The last original article he published in Press, last Monday he called it “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” and in it he questioned the “double standards” of Russian President and Ortega ally Vladimir Putin in “calling for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas while Russia continues its military intervention in Ukraine.”

The newspaper, which is now published digitally only, reported that in the Nicaraguan city of Granada (southeast), where Miranda lives, “It is believed that he was detained by the National Police,” he said. who has not yet referred to the missing person report.

Press explained that his columnist is in Nicaragua and So far, it has been mobilized without problems within the country.

In turn, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Pedro VacaThis is stated on his social network account.

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“In the context of Nicaragua This fact should be integrated into alerts and monitoring by the international community,” Vaca suggested.

Nicaragua has been experiencing a political and social crisis since April 2018. This intensified following the disputed general elections on November 7, 2021, in which President Ortega was re-elected to a fifth term, his fourth in a row and his second with his wife Rosario Murillo as vice president, while his main rivals were jailed.

(EFE)