Nicaraguans living in Miami, United States, carried out a “caravan for Nicaragua” yesterday, January 29, with the aim of continuing to demand justice for the hundreds of compatriots murdered at the hands of the Ortega regime and for the freedom of more than 230 people. political prisoners who remain captive in the different jails of the country.
Opposition member Aida Carrión detailed the team of Article 66 that the “Miami roadblock carried out a caravan for the freedom of political prisoners, especially for Monsignor Rolando José Alvarez Lagos, for those exiled, kidnapped, and for justice for those murdered by the Ortega Murillo dictatorship.”
He highlighted that the Nicaraguans who participated in the demonstration shouted: “Justice for Alvarito Conrado and his father”, this alluding to the fact that on January 27, Álvaro Conrado Avendaño died in a capital hospital. Conrado is one more family member who dies without getting the crime of his son to reach justice.
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The “caravan for Nicaragua” toured several roads in the city of Miami. The demonstration “departed from the Nicaraguan Consulate, crossing the famous 8th Street until it reached 107th Avenue, turning right in the city of Sweetwater, passing through the Managua Shopping Center, Ruben Darío Park and returning to the Consulate through West Flagler,” he indicated. Carrion.
“On the way (the caravan) stopped for a few minutes at the protest that the Vigilia Mambisa organization of the Cuban community carries out every Sunday in support of their compatriots political prisoners by the Castro-Díaz Canel dictatorship,” he added.
Nicaraguans from various parts of Florida participated in the demonstration, from Port San Lucie, West Palm Beach, Hollywood to Homestead. Gerald Vásquez’s father, Yader Vásquez, supported the initiative and took the opportunity to demand justice for the murder of his son. In addition, activists, human rights defenders, former political prisoners and exiled opponents joined the caravan.
This coming April marks the fifth anniversary of the April outbreak. The relatives of those murdered in the social protests continue to demand justice, but rather they are subjected to siege, harassment and threats of imprisonment, which has forced many into exile.
The Ortega y Murillo regime keeps more than 230 Nicaraguans in jail for opposing their dictatorial government. Opponents are subjected to torture, isolation and ill-treatment in the country’s prisons.
