The Military Hospital confirmed that he died at 2:30 AM on September 30th; the dictatorship “acknowledges” his death and remains silent about funeral
HAVANA TIMES – Humberto Ortega Saavedra, former head of the Nicaraguan Army and brother of dictator Daniel Ortega, passed away at the age of 77 in Nicaragua, as confirmed in a brief statement by the Alejandro Dávila Bolaños Military Hospital. The retired army general had been under house arrest since May 2024.
Ortega Saavedra, the younger brother of the dictator, died at 2:30 AM on September 30, 2024.
“At 01:55, the patient Humberto Ortega, 77 years old, suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest, and after being treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts, he did not recover, and was declared dead at 2:30 AM,” reads the statement, which was published by the government media after 10:30 in the morning, more than eight hours after his death. The statement also omits that he was a retired army general, referring to Ortega only as “the patient.”
Dictatorship “acknowledges” his “transition to another plane of life”
In a statement published after the official confirmation of Humberto Ortega’s death, the dictatorship led by his brother Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, recalled his “strategic contribution” as a Sandinista militant and his “bravery in revolutionary actions.”
Humberto Ortega Saavedra, former head of the Nicaraguan Army and brother of dictator Daniel Ortega, passed away at the age of 77 in Nicaragua, as confirmed in a brief statement by the Directorate of the Military Hospital School “Dr. Alejandro Dávila Bolaños” of the Military Medical Corps of the Nicaraguan Army. The retired army general had been under de facto house arrest since May 2024.
Ortega Saavedra, the younger brother of the dictator, died at 2:30 AM on September 30, 2024.
“At 01:55, the patient Humberto Ortega Saavedra, 77 years old, suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest, and after being treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts, he did not recover, and was declared dead at 2:30 AM,” reads the statement, which was published by official media after 10:30 in the morning, more than eight hours after his death. The statement also omits that he was a retired army general, referring to Ortega Saavedra only as “the patient.”
Dictatorship “acknowledges” his “transition to another plane of life” In a statement published after the official confirmation of Humberto Ortega’s death, the dictatorship led by his brother Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, recalled his “strategic contribution” as a Sandinista militant and his “bravery in revolutionary actions.”
It also highlighted “his writings, platforms, insurrectional and historical theories, which brilliantly compiled and exposed the Epics of the Heroic Nicaraguan People and the Sandinista National Liberation Front.”
The statement also emphasized his family origins and expressed “solidarity with his children David, Elizabeth, Luis Amanda, Mariana, and Oscar Humberto, his grandchildren, and partners with whom he shared various moments of his life” after “acknowledging his transition to another plane of life.”
However, the statement omits his house arrest and isolation in the Military Hospital. It also does not mention whether there will be a funeral with the protocol honors due a high-ranking military officer.
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