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Humberto Ortega, brother and critic of the president of Nicaragua, dies

Q24N — Isolated by his brother’s government and declared a traitor in Nicaragua, retired General Humberto Ortega, brother of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, died on Monday of cardiac arrest, the Military Medical Corps of the Nicaraguan Army reported.

“The Directorate of the ‘Dr. Alejandro Dávila Bolaños’ Military School Hospital of the Military Medical Corps of the Nicaraguan Army announces that on September 30, 2024, at 1:55 am in Nicaragua, the patient Humberto Ortega Saavedra, 77 years old, presented cardiorespiratory arrest, and after treating him with cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers he did not come out of this condition, being declared dead at 2:30 am,” the military body specified in a press release.

Daniel Ortega and Humberto Ortega, during an appearance in Nicaragua, in 1984.Vincent FOURNIER (Getty Images)

Humberto Ortega’s health problems

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The former head of the Nicaraguan Army and younger brother of Daniel Ortega was admitted on July 11 “with a complex health condition” and the day before he presented a “sudden deterioration of his condition with cardiogenic shock and altered state of consciousness that required intensive care treatment to maintain blood pressure levels,” according to the Military Medical Corps.

The younger Ortega was one of the strategists of the armed insurrection against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979, and founder of the Sandinista Popular Army which he led from 1979 to 1995. Earlier this year he was kept under surveillance at his residence in Managua after he questioned the “dictatorial” succession of his older brother.

In an interview with the Argentine media Infobae, published on May 19, the retired general considered that the “dictatorial” power of his brother, who is about to turn 79 and has been in power in Nicaragua since 2007, has no suitable successors. Neither his wife, Rosario Murillo, nor any of his children, and in the event of his absence or death, a great power vacuum will remain, which is why elections must be called.

After questioning the “dictatorial” succession, authorities seized the cell phones and computers of the former military chief and installed a medical care unit in his residence to care for the ailments “that have afflicted and afflict General Ortega,” one of the historic nine commanders of the National Directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) who led Nicaragua between 1979 and 1990.

Ten days after criticizing the “dictatorial” succession, Daniel Ortega declared his brother “traitor to the country” during an official ceremony broadcast on television, and in the presence of the Army and Police chiefs.

The president reproached his brother, whom he did not mention by name, for awarding the highest-ranking (gold) ‘Camilo Ortega’ medal to the United States Government attaché in Nicaragua, Lieutenant Colonel Dennis F. Quinn, when he led the Army (1979-1995).

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Ortega accused his brother of “treason” and of having “given his soul to the devil” for decorating the US military man 32 years ago, an action that he described as “sacrilege”, “traitor”, “national dishonor”, ​​“national shame” and “an act of surrender”.

However, on September 3, 2019, President Ortega himself awarded a medal to the then Chief Officer for Defense Affairs and US Defense Attaché in Nicaragua, Lieutenant Colonel William Hogan.

Nicaragua has been experiencing a political and social crisis since April 2018, which was accentuated after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Daniel Ortega was re-elected for a fifth and fourth consecutive term, with his main contenders in prison and whom he later expelled from the country, and deprived of their nationality and political rights.

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