The National Police declared the femicide of Joghenys María Saballos Hernández, 34, an elected councilor of the Sandinista Front of Bocana de Paiwas, in the Autonomous Region of the South Caribbean Coast, to have been clarified, by presenting her spouse, Arcenio José Martínez Hurtado.
The subject is identified as a strong rancher of the municipality and brother of the outgoing mayor, Manuel Hurtado, by the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC). General Commissioner Sergio Gutiérrez, police chief of Matagalpa and who has led the attack against Catholic religious in that department, presented the perpetrator and a revolver as evidence of the crime, with which they say he killed his spouse.
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According to Gutiérrez, Martínez Hurtado has a criminal record for property damage. The victim was shot to death by Hurtado on the night of Tuesday, November 29, in the community of Bocana de Paiwas, on the southern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
Joghenys María Saballos Hernández was recently elected as a councilor who owns Bocana de Paiwas by the Alianza Nicaragua Triunfa in the municipal votes on November 6, 2022.
Recently, the feminist organization Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir reported that 57 femicides have been registered in the country that were committed in the national territory and nine were perpetrated abroad: three in Costa Rica, two in Panama and four in Guatemala, countries Central American countries where entire families have emigrated due to the repression of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
In Nicaragua, the autonomous regions of the Caribbean are the main areas of the country where femicides have been registered, totaling 14; It is followed by Managua with 13 and the departments of Matagalpa and León with 5 each; Río San Juan, Jinotega, Rivas and Estelí two murders of women each and in Boaco, Chinandega and Nueva Segovia, one femicide per department. 33 femicides were carried out in rural areas and 24 in urban areas.
Catholics for the Right to Decide has criticized the lack of interest of the Daniel Ortega dictatorship in the face of the growing wave of femicides in the country. They have also said that the State of Nicaragua is absent and given the geographical difficulties, remoteness and poverty, impunity prevails in cases where the victims are rural women.
