6 de agosto 2024
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Carlos Fonseca Terán, son of Carlos Fonseca Amador, (founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and leader of this organization until he died in combat in November 1976), has been held under house arrest in his home in Lomas del Valle, in Managua, since Friday, July 26. This de facto house arrest was imposed by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, according to three sources linked to the FSLN who spoke to CONFIDENCIAL and requested anonymity.
Neither the Police, the Prosecutor's Office, nor the FSLN, have reported on the causes of Fonseca Terán's detention at his residence, where he is being held incommunicado after the Police confiscated cell phones, computers, and other communication devices from him and his wife, former Labor Court judge, Arlen Cuadra.
A WhatsApp group
Sources linked to the FSLN assure that the reason for the reprisals against Fonseca Terán is his participation as coordinator of a WhatsApp group, which included a dozen Sandinistas, mostly university professors from UNAN and Casimiro Sotelo University, of which at least four of them - Rigoberto Ramos, Ernesto Paredes, Frank Matus and Christian Eduardo Bermúdez - are detained in police stations that their families have not yet been able to identify.
The sources do not know what the objective of the discussion group coordinated by Fonseca Terán on WhatsApp, which some call 'La Comuna', was. "The only thing I know is that all the participants were well-prepared young professionals," indicated a source.
Fonseca Terán has been a Sandinista militant for more than four decades and despite his conflictive relationship with some FSLN leaders, he has held positions in the party's structures in León and in the FSLN's International Relations Secretariat, where he was deputy secretary to Congressman Jacinto Suárez, although he was later removed from the position.
There are videos and statements from Fonseca Terán available online showing him fervently supporting the Ortega Murillo regime. An example of this is his bursting into a meeting in Argentina, in November 2018, where he insults the participants of a panel where the violent situation in Nicaragua was being discussed.
That happened a few months after he pointed to "some of the bishops" as the "main instigators" of the anti-government protests that broke out in April 2018 and were violently repressed by the regime, leaving at least 325 confirmed dead." Also on record are his comments, during the sessions of the São Paulo Forum held in Managua in 2017, in which he defended the political model implemented by Orteguismo in Nicaragua.
"Nobody has confirmed to me that he is in prison, but they said that neither he nor his family can leave his house, which is the same as being held incommunicado", said a lawyer who communicates with government officials from exile.
For his part, an academic who maintained links with the FSLN, said that "Carlos has been a man with a complicated trajectory, practically a misfit who graduated in sociology, and advocates the implementation of Marxism as a model for the organization of the State, "but he continues to support Venezuela and Nicaragua, which are far from that".
A chain of dismissals
His wife, lawyer Arlen Cuadra Núñez, is the niece of Judge Armengol Cuadra, and had been dismissed in March 2023, before the sweep executed in the Supreme Court of Justice.
The sources also informed that this Tuesday, July 30, Carlos Manuel Fonseca López, son of Fonseca Terán, received the letter of dismissal with which he was removed from the position he held at the investment promotion agency PRONicaragua where he worked for the last eight years.
Similarly, it was reported that Pedro Munguía Fonseca, son of Dr. Pedro Munguía and Haydeé Fonseca Terán, (Carlos Fonseca Terán's sister), was dismissed from the position he held in the Judiciary.
In October of last year, the dictatorship cancelled the legal status of the Association of Medical Specialists "San Francisco" (Amesfra), an NGO presided by Dr. Tania Fonseca Terán, daughter of Carlos Fonseca Amador. The cancelled medical association was integrated by gynecologists, obstetricians, perinatologists, pediatricians, surgeons, dentists, nutritionists and gastroenterologists.
Sources close to Fonseca Terán's family assured that Mrs. María Haydee Terán, Carlos Fonseca Amador's widow, who is facing health problems, is affected by the isolation of her son Carlos, with whom she was in constant communication.
This article was published in Spanish in Confidencial and translated by our staff. To get the most relevant news from our English coverage delivered straight to your inbox, subscribe to The Dispatch.
