Nicaraguan police have confiscated a retired general’s cell phones and computers. Humberto Ortega, brother of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega after he told Argentine media Information What “dictatorial” power of the 78-year-old president, “has no heirs” within his family and Sandinism and that after his death there should be elections.

The general, who in 1979 was the founder of the Sandinista People’s Army, which he led until 1995, told a Nicaraguan newspaper this Monday. Press, through close third parties who The police, who took away his computers and mobile phones, He had kept his residence on the outskirts of Managua surrounded since Sunday evening, and today he was summoned for an interview.

In an interview with Infobae, The retired general believed that his brother, who has been in power in Nicaragua since 2007, had no suitable successor and that his possible death would create a huge power vacuum and elections must be called.

“If Daniel Ortega is missing, for me, Humberto Ortega, there is no possibility that “No one from this power group can influence the process,” – noted the retired general.

When asked if the president’s wife, Rosario Murillo, vice president of Nicaragua, The former military leader ruled that no one.

“Nobody. Nobody. I don’t want to mention anyone in particular. Without Daniil there is no one, because, despite everything and everyone, Daniil is the only historical leader who still retains the merits of that (political) struggle. “Without Daniel, it will be very difficult for me to get two or three together,” Indian.

“It’s much less of one individually and more complex in a family. Children who did not have the accumulation of political struggle. Even Somoza could not legitimize his son. In the absence of Daniel, it would be very fragile to maintain everything that has hitherto been achieved with great effort and great difficulty,” he reasoned.

Only the army can avoid chaos, says former general

In accordance with Press, The police command that arrived on Sunday evening at the residence of President Ortega’s brother was led by Commissioner Vladimir Cerna, who explained to the general that although he was not detained and was not in prison at home, he You must inform the police of any movement you make.

This Monday the former head of the army was summoned to a meeting at the headquarters of the National Police with the Minister Adviser to the President for Security Affairs, Commissioner Horacio Rocha, details of whom, according to information, are unknown.

“Due to the sudden absence of Daniel Ortega, At first there would be great confusion and impossibility, I believe that the civilian part of the government and the party (Sandinista Front) can take firm power,” the general insisted.

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According to Humberto Ortega, “the only thing that can fill this vacuum and guarantee the absence of anarchy and chaos in the country is the army. First of all, the Army. Coordinated with the National Police. And look for a solution in the short term, perhaps a year or less, to begin the electoral process, regardless of whether it is scheduled for 2026,” he said.

Nicaragua has been experiencing a political and social crisis since April 2018, which intensified following the disputed general elections on November 7, 2021, in which Ortega, in power since 2007, He was re-elected for a fifth and fourth consecutive term. with his main rivals in prison and whom he later exiled from the country and stripped of their citizenship and political rights.

(EFE)