{"id":172396,"date":"2025-08-08T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/the-3cs-of-corruption-in-nicaragua\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:23:00","slug":"the-3cs-of-corruption-in-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/the-3cs-of-corruption-in-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3C\u2019s of Corruption in Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Corruption involves the decay or degeneration of that which is respected and commonly accepted. It typically manifests as abuse of authority and of the moral, social, political and economic norms that are practiced in a society.<\/p>\n\n

The Nicaraguan dictatorship exhibits the distortions of the 3Cs of corruption: political, economic, and moral, which have completely trampled and violated the democratic values. Instead, for them, the political, economic, and moral corruption are the basis, or the glue, of this dictatorial regime. <\/p>\n\n

A scaffolding of political corruption<\/h2>\n\n

The principal transgression of the Ortega-Murillo duo has been to invent a scaffolding of dynastic presidential succession that is masked behind a legal framework. The result is the imposition of laws that go against the common good, and Constitutional changes that lead to the criminalization of democracy. <\/p>\n\n

Apart from that, the rulers have taken on the work of facilitating the road to power through the transactional exchange of loyalty for positions of authority or command. Nicaragua has become a country in which the exercise of governing is subordinated to the discretion and will of Rosario Murillo, through her direct operators, with no effort to follow the steps and procedures of institutional order. <\/p>\n\n

The entire process of bureaucratic and administrative decisions must submit itself to Rosario Murillo\u2019s approval. In addition to assuming the job of giving orders, her operators take on the role of big cheeses<\/em> in their operations network, removing and installing people, or simply reminding their staff that \u201cthey\u201d have a direct line to the co-president and the employee had better follow their orders and behave well, otherwise they\u2019ll be reported. <\/p>\n\n

There are no checks and balances within the institutions; what exists is a monopoly rule exercised by the political power that orders and commands. Neither is there a rule of law which citizens could appeal to, or protection they could seek from the law. The laws in Nicaragua are subject to whatever interpretation Rosario Murillo dictates. Government entities have no autonomy, but operate according to the directions of Compa\u00f1era Rosario\u2019s chosen employee of the moment. <\/p>\n\n

State capture as a form of kleptocracy<\/h2>\n\n

According to the International Monetary Fund, State capture<\/a> is the quintessential procedure of economic corruption that permits the ruling family to engage in massive kleptocracy and promotes the construction of a new economic elite.<\/p>\n\n

Under this system, the family in power authorizes the legislative branch to apply for loans for public works activities from international organizations such as the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE). [Generally, 70% of debt is for construction and public works.] That\u2019s how it\u2019s been since the famous pact with the private sector. However, the one writing the laws isn\u2019t the Legislature but the Executive branch which then delivers (as opposed to reviewing and returning) the document to the Sandinista deputies in order to formalize their preapproval.<\/p>\n\n

Annually, public investment amounts to a little over a billion dollars, at least two-thirds of which are dependent on outside loans.<\/p>\n\n

Once the money has been disbursed, the State uses it to set up contracts for the construction of highways, buildings, and other infrastructure, in which the bids are awarded to friendly businesses. Another small amount is used for a different type of investment, such as in housing. There\u2019s no investment in technology, innovation, business development. Nothing of the kind. <\/p>\n\n

Two-thirds of the public investment comes from debt and is spent on these contracts. Instances of kleptocratic abuse abound. <\/p>\n\n

One clear example is the socially motivated housing program,<\/a> which employs over 80 million dollars a year for loans and subsidies (averaging around 10% of the mortgage value). The program is managed by INVUR [government institute for urban and rural housing] which directly convenes its network of construction companies to participate in bidding and receive contracts. General Oscar Mojica, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, is the intermediary, and Gabriela Palacios, INVUR\u2019s director, is the operator. There are similar cases in the Custom\u2019s agency, involving contracts to unload the Chinese merchandise which are routinely assigned to partners of Laureano Ortega; or rental contracts for the assembly plants in the free trade zone. There are small examples \u2013 benefits involving less than ten million dollars a year. However, multiplied by a hundred, they begin to structure an economic elite that has enriched itself on the basis of loans and favors from the dictatorship, in exchange for reconstituting themselves as a new \u201clarge capital.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

The moral degradation of the \u201cleadership\u201d<\/h2>\n\n

The corruption that Nicaraguans most habitually breathe is the regime\u2019s intentional and conscious immorality. The dictatorship leans on the use of disrespect to human dignity as a social norm. The leaders and operators of this dictatorship display great moral arrogance and consider themselves above everyone else. <\/p>\n\n

This is manifested in many ways, including scorn for religious faith, ingrained and abusive machismo, and a generalized mistreatment of the ordinary public.<\/p>\n\n

The Ortega-Murillo duo and their followers demonstrate disrespect for the country\u2019s religious traditions and faith, beginning with Rosario Murillo, who plagiarizes Biblical passages for her own speeches. Murillo has given her followers open license to attack any person who she considers under the influence of their religious beliefs and possibly challenging dynastic power, unless they subordinate their religious faith to the regime\u2019s practices. God save anyone who declares that what Rosario Murillo is doing goes against the Christian faith. Worse yet would be saying that your parish priest said that in a sermon \u2013 both you and the priest would end up in jail. <\/p>\n\n

Macho arrogance within the inner power circle is another of the most visible moral transgressions. Officials from the highest summits of power go out for revelry, drinking and more, taking full advantage of their political status<\/em> when dealing with people in poverty. Another goes with his gym friend to hold private sessions. These things take place even among the mid-level functionaries of the mayor\u2019s offices and other public offices who organize intimate encounters with men and women, who are treated as merchandise. <\/p>\n\n

When the employment situation doesn\u2019t allow stable, well-paid work, the nouveau riche of Murillo\u2019s circle present themselves as influential people, whom one should be grateful to. It\u2019s enough to see how this \u201cnew bourgeoise\u201d transformed the color of Managua\u2019s Club Terraza. <\/p>\n\n

The story of the abuses committed by Silvio Conrado, Daniel Ortega’s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, is no fairy tale, but neither is it an exception to the rule.<\/p>\n\n

The country is suffering from a degradation similar to that of the 19th century, or even to the feudal style of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, who supposedly claimed the right to \u201caccustom\u201d any bride before her wedding night. Inside the dictatorship, many are aware of Ortega\u2019s abuses that have remained unpunished for decades. <\/p>\n\n

Wherever you are, all those who claim to be connected with the compa\u00f1era Rosario treat ordinary people with self-importance and arrogance. \u201cDon\u2019t talk to me like that, because I\u2019m a friend of the Social Security Director;\u201d \u201cNo buddy, that\u2019s not how it is, I\u2019m in charge here and you don\u2019t get a vote, so just be quiet;\u201d \u201cLook, I\u2019m going to let it go this time, but don\u2019t let me catch you hanging out with someone that the compa\u00f1era Rosario wouldn\u2019t like.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

While Rosario Murillo carries out her purges and persecutions within the circle of power, those affected spew their frustrations on other people; they yell at the girl they took away, at the \u201cboyfriend\u201d of the moment, at the salesperson behind the counter.<\/p>\n\n

People watch and feel indignant at these immoral aberrations, and try to navigate in such a way as to avoid coming in contact with such types. But they neither like nor approve of the immoral arrogance of the dictators and their followers. <\/p>\n\n

Murillo and the corruption<\/h2>\n\n

Rosario Murillo\u2019s pretensions in presenting herself as a champion of the struggle against corruption as her way of officially justifying the purges and confiscations, resembles a dynastic version of the Afghan Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. It\u2019s a fa\u00e7ade that justifies economic and physical violence, and legalizes the exercise of corruption. However, everything has a limit. <\/p>\n\n

Excesses eventually take their toll on the human body and on social and political institutions. The excess of corruption in Nicaragua is not sui generis<\/em>, and as in imperial Rome when bacchanalia and political transgressions exceeded the limits of their perpetrators\u2019 actions, weaknesses accumulate and the structures begin to tremble as a result of these abuses. <\/p>\n\n

While many believe it\u2019s tautological to say that the dictatorship will eventually fall from power, we don\u2019t know when and how.<\/p>\n\n

But as we measure the future of an economic contraction in 2026<\/a> (which weakens the capture of the state), the reduction in the number of those remaining within the circle of power (accompanied by their fear and resentment), international isolation, the silent resistance that includes a \u201crunning tally\u201d people are keeping<\/a> of all their grievances and the systemic corruption in the regime, signs of a growing erosion can be identified that could shape popular resistance.<\/p>\n\n

However, it\u2019s clear that the overflow of public corruption is already burying Ortega and Murillo: the commander-in-chief of corruption, who enriches the ruling family and finances the dictatorship, and his dynastic heiress, desperate to purge politicians, businessmen, and military figures from the old Sandinismo who overshadow her, are racing against the clock, unable to stop the \u201cunauthorized corruption\u201d that now competes with their official corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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