The Xiomeran government announced today that it will “pause” its invasion of Milintica and enter talks with the recently freed leader of that country.
President Matōchmizalo of Milintica had presumably been defeated in the 2024 Milintican elections. However, investigations after the election have since concluded that his opponent, Neina Arana, engaged in a conspiracy to falsely place herself in power. These investigations were further supported by a defecting Milintican elections official who provided evidence of the conspiracy in April 2025.
In the midst of the ongoing Xiomeran invasion, a UCS-led commando raid freed President Matōchmizalo from the infamous Xihuitl Detention Center in Huānoch on November 20th. Matōchmizalo has since called on other nations, including Xiomera, to recognize him as the legitimately elected leader of Milintica.
His call to enter negotiations with Xiomera was met with cool consideration in Tlālacuetztla. “We will recognize Matōchmizalo as the true leader of Milintica, given the ample evidence that Neina Arana is a fraud,” Prime Minister Toquihu of Xiomera told the media. “Neither he nor his government delivered the insults to Xiomera that well deserved the name of Operation Earned Vengeance that we gave our military operation against Milintica. As such, we are willing to negotiate with his government to find an acceptable resolution.” The Prime Minister warned, however, that Xiomera “will not accept a token peace treaty when we could, frankly, just take over all of Milintica right now if we wanted.”
“For Matōchmizalo to win a peace, he will have to accept that his nation is vanquished, and that any peace moving forward comes solely at the mercy of our Empire. He will therefore need to be accomodating to our expectations for a treaty to be agreed upon.” The Prime Minister said that, at a minimum, Milintica will have to agree to forever abandon its claim to Aoatea, which Xiomera calls the Chenalco Islands. He also stated that Milintica would also need to agree to permanently cede the Ngāmotu and Ōkarae islands, which Xiomera occupied at the start of its invasion. Xiomera is also expected to push for Milintica to sign a binding non-aggression agreement with the Empire, barring it from any overt or covert actions against Xiomera. The Prime Minister also said that Xiomera will demand that Neina Arana and “any surviving members of her inner circle”, to include her Cabinet and security officials, be handed over to Xiomera for trial.
Speaking in his temporary capital of Wairarapa, Matōchmizalo said that the Xiomeran demands “are harsh and cruel, even by Imperial standards”. He also acknowledged, however, that his government and nation are in little position to oppose them. “We will do what we must to end this war that Neina Arana’s stupidity brought upon us, while still trying to protect Milintica as much as we can.”
It is naturally believed that Neina Arana’s regime will not agree to either Matōchmizalo resuming power, or to the Xiomeran demands. “Given that the Xiomerans are trying to get the imposter and her cronies to be tried and imprisoned in the torture factories that the Empire calls jails, they will likely resist any surrender or capture since they have literally nothing left to lose,” a spokesperson for Matōchmizalo’s government said.
But with her regime collapsing around her at a faster rate every second, Neina Arana neither has control over her own fate or that of her remaining followers. With most of the country no longer taking her orders, and a military and security apparatus in complete disarray, the clock is clearly ticking for her “People’s Democratic Republic.” President Arana has not appeared in public for two weeks; her last recorded address to the nation took place three days ago. Her whereabouts, and those of her closest followers, remain a mystery at this time.
But some of her former followers, such as Police Commissioner Huaxō of the National Police and electoral commission chairman Wera Hauraki, have already turned themselves in to a Huenyan-led intervention force in Wairarapa. “They surrendered to us because the last people they want to surrender to are the Xiomerans,” a Huenyan spokesperson said. “Although, after the debacle the communists caused, their own people might be even more dangerous to them than the Xiomerans.”
Talks are expected to begin on December 1st between Xiomera and Matōchmizalo’s government, along with “friendly states to our government,” a spokesperson for Matōchmizalo said.
– Nikandros Damaskenos, DTNS
