The former politician Lazaro Ernesto Rivas Perez, Originally from Santo Domingo, Chontales, he reunited with his family in Chicago, United States, where he has been exiled since February 9, 2023.
The arrival of the wife and two of the three children of the opponent, 42, was on Thursday, May 18, but it was not until this Friday that he was able to meet with them. “I can finally be next to my wife, my 14-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter,” the opponent said in an interview with Article 66.
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She also indicated that her eldest daughter, 23, had already been in the US for a year and three months, after she decided to leave Nicaragua so as not to be a victim of persecution by the Ortega regime.
Regarding the efforts that Rivas made to get his family out of Nicaragua, he said that it was “a tough and difficult process” because they had to deal with sieges and threats by the police and paramilitaries.
«The Police intimidated my wife and my son. They came to the house to threaten them; they told them that they were being watched; so I fought to be able to bring them. This achievement, thank God, is the best happiness in the world,” said the former political kidnapper.
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The family of Lázaro Rivas was able to reach the United States thanks to the humanitarian parole, with which many Nicaraguans, especially those ex-dictatorship, have been able to reunite with their loved ones.
«The respective procedures were carried out so that my family could leave; However, Migration put a series of obstacles, so my wife had to say that I had abandoned my children, and that is how she processed her passports, “she narrated.
Lázaro Rivas, brother of the former politician Ulises Rivasexiled in the United States, was kidnapped for almost 36 months in the Juigalpa Penitentiary Center, Chontales, sentenced to seven years in prison for the alleged crime of aggravated robbery.
Now in exile, Rivas assures that, despite the fact that he will start from scratch, he feels happy to be with his family. He also assures that he will continue to demand justice “until the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is removed from power.”
