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In a week, the dictatorship of Ortega Murillo suffered four important political defeats that have imprinted a new dynamic on the country: although the impasse remains, the Blue and White Movement has clearly taken up the political initiative.

The murder of political prisoner, Eddy Montes Praslin, by a prison guard in the La Modelo prison last Thursday, should be the Ortega Murillo dictatorship’s last political crime.

The stalemate in negotiations between the Civic Alliance and the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, as a result of the intransigence of commander Daniel Ortega, threatens to liquidate the second attempt at the national dialogue.

The image of euphoric protestors celebrating the fall of the first “Chayopalo”, one of the omnipresent metal “trees of life” imposed by Rosario Murillo, on the third day of the civic protest, revived in my memory the same sense of liberation that I lived some 40 years ago when the statue of Somoza García on a horse came crashing down.

The negotiations between the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship and the Civic Alliance ended last Wednesday without any agreement on the two most important items on the national agenda, endorsed by hundreds of thousands of citizens during the April Rebellion: democratization and justice.

Ortega was not even able to comply with these initial agreements which would have gvien him credibility while more substantial aspects were negotiated. Just 24 hours later after the agreements were announced, his police and paramilitary forces violently dispersed civilian protesters in one of Managua’s shopping malls.

There cannot be any middle ground, negotiation, or ambiguity, to fully restore freedom of the press, expression, association and mobilization. The self-convoked movement has the right to protest civically and to march in the streets today and tomorrow, without asking the dictatorship for permission…