Gioconda Belli, a Nicaraguan poet and prominent opposition voice in exile in Spain, wrote on social media: "Without any scruples, Ortega and Murillo make 1,500 paramilitaries swear loyalty to them ...

Both the writer and the poet participated in the struggle against the dictatorship of the Somoza family and were militants alongside Ortega until 1995. Cardenal, one of the greatest figures of ...