The Nicaraguan Exiles Unit (UEN) has demanded this Thursday that the United States carry out a "military intervention" in Nicaragua with the aim of "liberating" the Central American country "from the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship" and opening the door to a scenario that makes possible the restoration of democracy.
In a statement, the organization holds that, "in the face of the magnitude of the crisis and the closure of internal democratic avenues, the United States constitutes the main reference for direct support to the defense of freedom and democracy in the hemisphere, which is why we call on its Government to evaluate and address the request for a military intervention aimed at contributing to the end of the dictatorship."
With this request, the UEN claims it seeks the "cessation of repression"; the "disarmament and dissolution" of the "structures used" to sustain the Government, including "the National Police, the Army, and paramilitary groups"; the "immediate and unconditional" release of political prisoners and the creation of the necessary conditions for a "democratic transition."
The Unit describes that "the reality of Nicaragua is characterized by political persecution, the increase of political prisoners and enforced disappearances, the closure of civic spaces, the restriction of fundamental freedoms, forced displacement, transnational repression, and the absence of democratic conditions for the exercise of citizen rights," and considers "indispensable" the "exit of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship" to advance towards "democratic reconstruction."
After declaring the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), whose Secretary General is Daniel Ortega, responsible for the current situation, the UEN also urges the Organization of American States (OAS) to assume an "active and effective participation" in defense of "freedom, democracy, and Human Rights" in Nicaragua.
The call comes after, at the end of July, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated that "there will no longer be elections" in the country he has led continuously since 2007, also announcing the implementation of "laws" aimed at safeguarding his purpose of preventing new elections.
"They already wanted --the opposition-- to be crouched, they would like to win elections to make real with the schools. They should forget it, there will not be elections again here," he proclaimed then during the event for the 47th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, before reiterating that "there will not be elections again so that they try to capture the Government, capture power."
In the same vein, at the beginning of September, the National Assembly approved "unanimously," in the first of the two required legislatures, a partial reform of the Constitution that vetoes the participation in electoral processes of those considered "traitors to the homeland" or "coup plotters," while extending the presidential term from six to seven years.
The former guerrilla and current secretary general of the FSLN, who contributed to the overthrow of the Somoza family's dictatorship and promoted his political project in 1979 inspired by the Cuban guerrilla, has remained in power since his return to the Presidency in 2007. At 80 years old, he continues at the head of the Executive alongside Rosario Murillo, elevated to co-president after serving between 2017 and 2025 in the position of vice president, which was eliminated after her rise.