Nicaragua VP lashes out at opposition after OAS calls for meeting

Nicaragua's Vice President Rosario Murillo unleashed a scathing verbal attack on exiled opposition leaders following the Organization of American States' (OAS) urgent call for a meeting to discuss the nation's escalating political crisis. Murillo, who is also the wife of President Daniel Ortega, directed her vitriol at those she labeled as "criminals and traffickers of honor" and "miserable mercenaries."

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Who are the criminals and traffickers of honor? Who are the fools? Who are the villains and scoundrels? Who are the miserable mercenaries? Descendants of William Walker.

Her fiery rhetoric invoked historical figures, including William Walker, the 19th-century American filibuster who briefly declared himself president of Nicaragua. Murillo dismissed the opposition as "crumbs of liars, mercenaries, traitors and cowards" engaged in "ridiculous theatricality" and likened them to "hungry packs of dogs."

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Here there is a homeland! And what should we as patriots do? First, ignore them because they are nobody, but also expose them as the ridiculous outlaws that, lacking courage and their own voice, form legions of liars in what they call social networks, which are networks where vanities, greed, selfishness, evils are displayed, legions of liars.

The National Assembly, subordinate to the presidency, is scheduled to convene to discuss proposed constitutional reforms. These changes could potentially extend the term of the "co-presidency" – held by Ortega and Murillo – from six to seven years and make it renewable. Furthermore, the reforms aim to constitutionally bar individuals deemed "coup plotters" or "traitors to the homeland" from political participation, ostensibly to prevent "external interference and coup attempts."

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Legions is saying a lot, crumbs of liars, mercenaries, traitors and cowards who exhibit themselves, they love to exhibit themselves in a theatricality. Again I will use the word: ridiculous, a court, a kind of comic or tragicomic court, paying the tributes they imagine will bring them more crumbs, more scraps to keep fighting like the hungry packs they are.

The OAS meeting was prompted by President Ortega's threat to cancel the general elections scheduled for November 2026. The United States has previously criticized Murillo's co-presidency, deeming it illegitimate as it was established without an election, mandate, or popular backing. Murillo, however, defiantly proclaimed, "We have a homeland!" and urged patriots to ignore and expose the opposition as the "ridiculous outlaws" they are.

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Servitude has no one to write for it, nor anyone to sustain it and, of course, they don't have anyone to respect them either. Packs and packs, they bark and bark, from lie to lie.