Martin Arguello and Bernardo Arguello Ciliberti, husband and son of Karen Ciliberti, were expelled from Nicaragua on January 7, 2024. Daniel Ortega's regime took them out of prison on Saturday, January 6, and gave them 48 hours to leave the country.
They left Nicaraguan territory on January 7, bound for Mexico on board flight AM 651, which took off on Sunday afternoon. After their release, they spent the last night at the home of their mother and wife, respectively, Karen Ciliberti, exiled by the dictatorship in Nicaragua.
In a program Sit who can From Univisión, on December 12, 2023, it was announced that they would be released on the condition that Celebrity transfer the rights to the Miss Nicaragua franchise to one of the daughters-in-law of the dictatorial couple.
In addition, the agreement includes the return of Shinice Palacios, winner of the Miss Universe 2023 title, to Nicaragua under strict supervision of the regime to visit her family. This was agreed upon after Miss Universe refused to allow Palacios to speak in favor of the dictatorship.
“The Nicaraguan regime, during all this time, the only thing that was asking Miss Universe Nicaragua and the director was for Miss Universe (Chinese Palacios) to speak in favor and support the regime, unlike what happened all the time. This weather. It is clear that Miss Universe Nicaragua said no, under any circumstances,” they commented on the international program.
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The new director of Miss Nicaragua
They also stated on the program that “the agreement they reached was that Karen (Ciliberti) would award the Miss Nicaragua contest to the current daughter-in-law of the president of that regime.” Although the Univision network program did not reveal the name of the daughter-in-law, there are indications that it could be Xiomara Blandino, Miss Nicaragua 2007 and wife of Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo. Blandino has been mentioned in state media as a possible successor to Celebrity.
The Celebrity family was kidnapped by police authorities in favor of the Ortega regime after Palacios became Miss Universe and the people of Nicaragua took to the streets to celebrate. However, there has been renewed talk on social media about the crisis the country has been going through since April 2018.
Removing the head of the regime from the country
In February 2023, Ortega and Murillo extracted 222 political prisoners from the regime’s prisons and sent them to the United States, then stripped them of their citizenship and confiscated their property. He also sent 12 priests he was holding as political prisoners to the Vatican.
According to the mechanism for recognizing political prisoners, the regime detained more than 91 political prisoners, not including more than 10 priests and monks who were arbitrarily arrested in recent weeks.
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