Humberto Ortega Saavedra, brother of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, has died
Humberto Ortega Saavedrathe brother of the dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, died this Monday in a military hospital after have a heart attack this morning
The Military Medical Corps of the Nicaraguan Army announced a few hours ago that Ortega Saavedra (77) was transferred to the Military Hospital School “Alejandro Dávila Bolaños” with a “tendency to hypotensionwith lung sounds suggestive acute heart failure and with data from infection of soft tissue in the left lower extremity’, so they concluded that he had ‘signs of sepsis and heart failure’.
Ortega Saavedra was under house arrest for allegedly committing an act of treason by decorating an American soldier in 1992. Those considered “traitors” in Nicaragua are detained, deprived of nationality or deported.
The police custody began after he said in an interview that his brother Daniel, 78, He lacked successors and his power would not withstand his eventual death.
The Ortega brothers were part of the Sandinista guerrillas fighting against the dictatorship of the Somoza family, which ruled the Central American country with an iron fist for more than four decades (1936-1979).
After the triumph of the revolution in 1979, he became Humberto Ortega head of the army until 1995while his brother took over the reins of government, first as a board member and then independently.
In 1990, Daniel Ortega was defeated in an election, although he regained power in 2007 and was successively re-elected in elections contested by the United States and the European Union.
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