Nicaraguan Gerson Snayder Suazo, 30, is an example of effort and perseverance. He left Nicaragua in March 2021, fleeing the persecution of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, and after three years of being exiled in Costa Rica, after working as a car wash, as a security guard and as a food deliveryman for apps, he is a few days of opening your own business: Wesly Sublimation.
Suazo, a politically released from Nicaragua, was imprisoned by the Ortega movement at the end of 2018 and released in April 2019. He was imprisoned for six months and, before going into exile, he again demonstrated against the Ortega movement, for which the regime again arrest warrant was issued against him and he had to leave Nicaragua in March 2021.
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The young Nicaraguan was recognized as a refugee in Costa Rica until December 2023. However, prior to obtaining said document, in November 2022, he already had his trademark registered in the Treasury of Costa Rica, in order to begin paying taxes and operate the business, although at that time he did so informally, since he did not have a location.
Wesly, a fast food business destroyed by the regime in Nicaragua
Suazo explained, in an interview with Article 66that “Wesly did not emerge in exile, it first emerged in Nicaragua, in 2016, it was a fast food restaurant. It occurred to me to welcome that same brand here, because in Nicaragua – after 2018 – it was taken from me, the regime closed my store, it was shot, that business was in Chichigalpa.”
«Being here I had the idea of continuing it, but it was a challenge because I had lost all my resources. (…) Due to bureaucratic processes, it is more complex to open a restaurant, so I decided to start with something smaller, that did not require a greater investment, just a little more effort, so I opted for sublimation,” he added.
The formerly imprisoned politician assures that it was a “long” process to collect the money, buy machines, while continuing to pay other monthly expenses such as food, housing, transportation, but “every effort bears fruit.”
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«The business was born in November 2022. At that time I already had my printer, irons and some supplies. That same month I registered with the Treasury, I already paid taxes and we began to operate, although informally because we did not have a premises,” he explained.
Some of the clients of Wesly Sublimations, which will open its doors in its first location, which will be located in San José, Costa Rica, have been sports teams from that country, hotels and human rights organizations, as well as individuals who come to carry out your orders.
Suazo studied Clinical Psychology and remembers his father, Deputy Commissioner of the National Police Juan José Suazo Rivera, who died in a traffic accident in 2015, as the person who always supported him in his goals. The young man remembers that one of the reasons why he set up the first Wesly brand business, his fast food sales business, which was later destroyed by the Ortega regime, was precisely in honor of his father.
The name Wesly, he explained, is used in his business because that is how he was known in Chichigalpa.
Now, once the opening of Sublimaciones is completed, Wesly assures that he has planned this business as a “circular business chain” and wants to be his own “supplier, that I buy myself, that my products go hand in hand, and maybe later I will put my fast food restaurant.
People who wish to support the enterprise of this Nicaraguan, by hiring one of the sublimation services they offer, can contact him through this link to your Facebook page.
