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Alvaro Cruz Rojas – Editor-in-Chief
All Central Americans, and especially Nicaraguans, were delighted when Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe pageant in San Salvador on November 18. With a history of personal and family struggles in the region’s poorest country, this beautiful 23-year-old showed us that there are no obstacles that cannot be overcome.
Any sane and reasonable person would be happy and proud that their compatriot has won a beauty pageant like Miss Universe, which is why Nicaraguans spontaneously erupted in joy and took to the streets to celebrate that night. The Ortega-Murillo family dictatorship in Nicaragua is used to suppressing any popular demonstrations with bullets and prisons, but this could not stop the people from celebrating Miss Palacios’ victory.
But a few days later, the Ortega-Murillo family decided to punish Karen Celebertti, a former beauty queen of the 90s and national director of Miss Nicaragua, and her family. Celebertti, a highly respected figure in Nicaraguan society, was prevented from returning to the country and forced into exile. Her husband and son were imprisoned for a few hours and then all charged with “treason” for expressing their support for them during anti-government protests in 2018.
Ultimately, it was a crude political revenge, because the Ortega-Murillo family, who try to control everything in Nicaragua, could control neither the contest nor the popular celebrations. Then, when they discovered that Miss Palacios herself had participated in the 2018 protests, they did not dare to accuse her of treason, but instead blamed the local contest organizers.
What happened in Nicaragua under the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship was a combination of authoritarian cruelty, pure evil, Satanism and mental illness on the part of this couple. This sick behavior is not normal, it is not wise, it caused 600,000 Nicaraguans to flee, and they even dared to imprison a bishop who denounced the injustices of the dictatorship in his sermons. It must be clear that there is no ideological or ideological support there. It is the grasping of power for power’s sake.
There is no justification for such behavior, Nicaragua has become a tropical gulag where no one can openly express opinions, criticize, openly profess a different ideology or their own religion.
I insist: it is a combination of dictatorial cruelty, pure evil, Satanism and madness. But as Xenis Palacios said on the night of his victory: “My country will soon change.” Let us hope that his words are prophetic.
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