While the Nicaragua experiences it dictatorship in recent years, her government has attacked opposition politicians, the Catholic Church, journalists and universities. Now he’s also chasing… beauty queens.
While the country’s authorities appeared to have clamped down on all forms of dissent, a 23-year-old, Sheynnis Palacios, managed to win the contest Miss Universe on November 18, making her own “revolution”. After the beauty’s victory, people poured into the streets of the Central American country in excitement. And while the president’s government Daniel Ortega initially hailed the victory, then photos emerged of Palacios taking part in mass anti-government protests in 2018, as broadcast by Washingtonpost.
The protests had been violently suppressed, with representatives of human rights organizations speaking of 355 dead from the “interventions” of government forces.
Ortega argued that the demonstrations he was part of an attempted coup, which had foreign support. His political opponents countered that it was a genuine protest by Nicaraguans against his increasingly repressive rule and his obsession with staying in power.
The manager of beauty pageants is accused of “bringing out” anti-establishment women, in order to bring down the government
In a statement issued by Nicaraguan police argued that pageant manager Karen Celeberti “actively participated, through her actions online and on the streets, in terrorist actions of a failed coup,” an apparent reference to the 2018 protests.
Celeberti has not been arrested so far, after Nicaraguan authorities refused to grant her entry into the country when she attempted to return from abroad a few days ago. However, local media reported that both her husband and son were taken into custody.
Celeberti and her family members face charges of betrayal. None of them have made statements so far about the prosecution brought against them.
Celeberti “kept in touch with the traitors and offered to use the franchises, platforms and venues that were supposed to be used to promote allegedly innocent beauty pageants in a conspiracy orchestrated to turn beauty pageants into political ambushes, funded by foreign agents,” the statement said. police.
Notably, many ordinary Nicaraguans, who are largely banned from protesting or holding the country’s flag in marches, used their compatriot’s Miss Universe victory as a rare opportunity to celebrate in the streets .
A Nicaraguan rapper known as Witto El Menor sings about the beauty queen. “In your silhouette I see my flag,” he raps, holding up the blue and white Nicaraguan flag. “You reflect our country’s constant struggle to move forward.”
Just five days after Palacio’s victory, the vice president and First Lady Rosario Murillo was coming up against opposition social media sites (many of which operate from abroad), which celebrated the beauty’s victory as a victory for the opposition, reports New York Post.
“We see the vicious terrorist commentators make a clumsy and insulting attempt to turn what should be a beautiful moment of pride into a destructive campaign for a coup,” Mourinho said.
Source: News Beast
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