“This is no longer a dictatorship lite, this is a now a full-blown repressive dictatorship that is baring its claws and releasing its dogs,” Vilma Nuñez, head of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, told Fusion.
Nuñez says the Sandinista regime has reportedly started a methodical “manhunt” in the countryside to find other anti-canal protesters who eluded capture on Dec. 24. She said police officers and soldiers are reportedly going “door-to-door” throughout the countryside trying to find those responsible for this week’s roadblocks in Rivas, El Tule and San Miguelito. Sandinista authorities have not commented on the alleged persecution.
“This canal is already stained in blood,” Defense Council member Henry Ruiz, who avoided capture during this week’s police raids, told Fusion on Friday afternoon. “We are going to hold firm, we will not back down. And they are going to see what happens as more Nicaraguans join this movement.”
The ruling party, meanwhile, has dispatched members of its Sandinista Youth to occupy the streets of Managua as a show of force to deter others from protesting.
(Fusion)
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