Umberto Ortega, brother and political rival of Costa Rican President Daniel Ortega, was rushed to a military hospital in Managua yesterday with “heart attack symptoms”. This is what the exiled Nicaraguan opposition press did. “At around 19:00 on Tuesday, June 11, a force of police detained retired General Umberto Ortega in a military hospital in Managua to treat a medical emergency,” the newspaper Confidencial reported, citing its “sources” in the health structure. Exile media based mainly in neighboring Costa Rica, such as the website 100% Noticias and the newspaper La Prensa, report that Umberto Ortega, once chief of the national defense general staff and in recent years a critic of his brother’s authoritarian government, was brought to a hospital for “symptoms of a heart attack” he suffered at home. The Nicaraguan government has not commented so far. In mid-May, Nicaraguan police announced that a “medical treatment unit” had been installed at the home of President Ortega’s brother […]
Source: News Beast
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