Nicaraguan Francisco Javier Reyes Rosas, better known as the YouTuber “Chico Reyes Rosas,” revealed that the Nicaraguan regime banned him from entering the country on August 27. The reason, he explained, unofficially would have been that he accompanied the Venezuelan YouTuber Óscar Alejandro Pérez during his visit to Nicaraguan territory, after the latter published videos in which he questions the sociopolitical situation in Nicaragua.
Reyes Rosas explained that on August 27, when he was returning from Spain to Nicaragua and was stopping over in Houston, United States, he was informed by United Airlines that they could not extend his ticket to Nicaragua because “the Nicaraguan Immigration authorities prohibited his entry.”
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Reyes Rosas, when he learned of the restriction, says he felt “hit” and thought “it was a nightmare, that it was a mistake and he did not want to accept it.”
“You can’t imagine how it feels to be denied entry into your own country (…) I thought it was a mistake, I didn’t know what was happening, because I was calmly heading home and they left me stranded in a country that is not mine,” Reyes Rosas lamented in a long video that he shared on his YouTube account.
The regime did not justify the exile
The Nicaraguan YouTuber sought help and arguments from the Nicaraguan authorities regarding the restriction. He first called the Nicaraguan Consulate in the United States, then the Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior and later the Nicaraguan Immigration and Foreign Affairs Office, but none of them could give a valid reason to restrict his entry into their own country.
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The young man, originally from León and a graduate of the Geology program at Unan-Managua, recorded the calls he had with the Nicaraguan authorities. In one of them, an official from the Ministry of the Interior stated that when “they don’t allow someone to enter, it’s for a reason. We don’t know them and they don’t let us know (…) Wherever you call, they won’t give you the reason.”
According to recordings released by “Chico Reyes Rosas,” the Nicaraguan Immigration and Foreign Affairs Directorate and the Nicaraguan Consulate in the United States simply argued that they had no details of this type of prohibition and only carried out the orders of the Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior.
The exiled YouTuber from the United States stressed that he has not committed any crime, questioning whether “the bad thing I did was think, be analytical, think differently.”
“I was returning to my country and the door was closed. I was not prepared for this, do not romanticize what is happening to me, I miss everything about Nicaragua, this hurts, it hurts a lot,” said Reyes Rosas, who is now posing in the home of a person who opened the doors of his house to him so he would not fall into poverty.
“Chico Reyes Rosas” said that he will fight for his project and survive in the United States. He also asked people who wish to support him “in this new season of life” to contact him at his email: [email protected]or by leaving your contributions in your YouTube account or in your PayPal account, in the email [email protected].
