After imprisoning, banishing and declaring them non-citizens
The dictatorship has encouraged physical attacks on them, ordered them imprisoned, declared them stateless, banished them, and confiscated everything they owned in the country. Apparently, for the dictatorial duo, that’s still not enough.
HAVANA TIMES – Rosario Murillo, Nicaragua’s all-powerful vice president, first lady and only government spokesperson, speaks so constantly about love, peace, and harmony that anyone would think nothing could perturb her. Nonetheless, the intensity of her rants against those who oppose her politically reveals her discomfort – the constant unease of someone who hates others for thinking differently.
Murillo has turned the full force of her rancor against all who oppose her. The dictatorship has allowed physical attacks against them, ordered them thrown in prison, declared them non-citizens, banished them and stripped them of everything they own in the country. However, apparently the dictatorial duo is still not mollified.
In the past few days, the dictator’s wife has unleashed a new round of insults against members of the opposition. Breathing fire with every word, she calls them: “cowards, hypocrites, fakes, dolts, tiny specks, non-existent, idiots…”
“Obsessed and frustrated”
Opposition activist and now banished political prisoner Samantha Jiron believes that Murillo is a woman obsessed with control. Hence, the fact that the members of the opposition she banished are now beyond her control frustrates her, and she’s having difficulty living with this.
“She hasn’t yet been able to fulfill her obsession to control absolutely everything, and so she turns that frustration into continual insults, seeking descriptive adjectives to discharge her hate,” stated 24-year-old Samantha, who endured a year and three months in prison because of her opposition to the dictatorship of Ortega and Murillo.
Alex Hernandez, another former prisoner now banished and living in exile, stated that Murillo is a person with