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NICARAGUAN TEACHERS RESIGN RATHER THAN POLITICALLY INDOCTRINATE UNIVERSITY
STUDENTS

Over 1,200 teachers were fired from confiscated universities. Others would
rather look for other jobs or emigrate instead of politically indoctrinating

Redacción Confidencial

13 de enero 2024

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Luis knew that the time had come to leave the classroom following the closing
and confiscation of the Central American University (UCA), ordered by the Ortega
dictatorship in mid-August 2023. 

The professor is not sure if it’s a definitive retirement, but he does know that
he will not return while the regime remains in power. 




“I have already retired from academia. I gave it up for lost,” he says
emphatically. 

The professor, with more than ten years of university experience, feels hopeless
about the higher education crisis in Nicaragua. In addition to the UCA, 26 other
universities have been closed and confiscated between December 2021 and August
2023. Following the theft of the higher education institutions, the dictatorship
has imposed the partisan indoctrination of the Sandinista Front.

Luis argues that he is not willing to teach under the administration of FSLN
political operators, falsely described as “academics.” He prefers to take up
another profession or migrate.


MORE THAN 1200 LAID OFF FROM CONFISCATED UNIVERSITIES

It took the Ortega dictatorship four months to resume the functionality of the
confiscated UCA campus, renamed the Casimiro Sotelo National University. Its
plan included the dismissal of 710 professionals, of which 418 were teachers and
292 worked in other areas.

At the Universidad de Occidente (UDO), also confiscated, another 115 teachers
were left unemployed and at the Universidad Evangélica Nicaragüense Martin
Luther King (UENIC-MLK), taken over by the regime, 207 teachers were put out of
work. 

In total, more than 1200 people working in these three universities became
unemployed, according to the 2022 statistical yearbook, published by the
National Council of Universities (CNU), in December.

The removal of teaching and administrative staff from the UCA and other
universities had been forewarned by education expert, Ernesto Medina, who
assured that the regime would surely review student and teacher files and that
many of them would not be able to continue at the UCA. “I am afraid that many
professors, in the current conditions of the university, are not willing to work
either,” added Medina.

In two days, the regime installed the Casimiro Sotelo Montenegro National
University in the physical and academic infrastructure of the confiscated
Central American University (UCA).


ORTEGA SUPPORTERS TAKE OVER TEACHING POSITIONS AT CONFISCATED UNIVERSITIES 

Karla has 14 years of academic experience in Nicaragua. She was a permanent
professor when the Ortega regime confiscated the Polytechnic University of
Nicaragua (Upoli), and created the National Polytechnic University (UPN). “It
was a day of great uncertainty. I didn't know what was going to happen,” she
recalls.

A few days after the takeover of that institution of higher education, which had
been a university bastion during the civic protests of 2018, they summoned all
the teachers to explain that the university was going through a "process of
extinction." They were informed that the administration had changed, but that
they would guarantee the continuity of the students' professional training. 

Although there was never a meeting to openly orient political indoctrination
from the classroom, the change was evident. “The words they used were related to
the state, to the government. It was a new approach,” Karla points out. 

She was part of a group of teachers who were hesitant to continue or give up on
academia. They felt that their classes were not about political issues and could
therefore circumvent the surveillance that had been put in place in the newly
created universities. However, they were also aware that they could be replaced
with people aligned with the political thinking of the Sandinista Front. 

Two months after the confiscation of Upoli, Karla received her letter of
dismissal. She was not the only one in her department. “It was news we all
expected, for those of us who are not within that political line of thinking..,”
she says.

That pattern was repeated at the confiscated UCA. “Those who are really in
charge are people who are closely linked to the government, regardless of
whether or not they understand academics and research,” warns Luis.

The teacher believes that “the situation of academics in Nicaragua is complex. I
dare to predict that in Nicaragua there will not be even 20% of highly
recognized academics left, academics with a lot of experience or who have strong
studies and who are not involved in the political,” he continued. 

The most likely thing, he says, is that the Ortega's academic authorities “are
going to begin placing their cards, they are going to try to train them in the
academic field and those who are going to take the positions – in the
confiscated UCA – will be the people of UNEN -National Union of Students of
Nicaragua (UNEN)-, those who have been in the structure of the Government party.
As for academics, we will have to go to other countries to look for luck. And
those who can’t will migrate to other sectors,” he points out.


BEGINNING OF CLASSES: JANUARY 15, 2024

According to the academic calendar of the Ortega regime, classes at the
confiscated Jesuit University will begin on Monday, January 15, 2024. The
website and social media accounts of the confiscated UCA remain inactive and
outdated. 

Rector Alejandro Genet,  sanctioned by the US government, did not provide
details regarding the curriculum plans. However, he assured that the academic
offer is divided into economic and business sciences; science, engineering, and
environment; and education and humanities and was kept at 15 careers, the same
that integrated the undergraduate offer of the UCA.

In an attempt to camouflage the lack of preparation of Ortega's government to
start up the university confiscated from the Society of Jesus, Carlos Eduardo
Díaz, former president of the National Union of Students of Nicaragua (UNEN),
assured that “we are not improvising anything, but that something is already in
place and that we would be offering quality training for the young people of the
new generations,” without providing further details of who will be in charge of
training the new professionals. 

On December 21, 2023, the US Government included in its list of "corrupt and
anti-democratic actors" - known as the "Engel List" - four members of the Ortega
regime. This brings to 17 the list of officials who are denied entry to the U.S.
and will not be able to obtain visas to travel to this country.

The rector of Casimiro Sotelo University, Alejandro Genet, is among those
sanctioned, followed by the president of the National Council of Universities
(CNU), Ramona Rodríguez; the president of the National Council of Evaluation and
Accreditation (CNEA), Maribel Duriez; and Judge Gloria Saavedra, of the Tenth
Criminal District Court of Managua.

Genet is accused of “using his position to create policies that penalize
professors and students of the Casimiro Sotelo University who do not participate
in political activities of Ortega's political party, the Sandinista National
Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional de Ortega).”

This article was published in Spanish in Confidencial and translated by our
staff. To get the most relevant news from our English coverage delivered
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