The León Police, led by Sandinista commissioner Fidel Domínguez, carried out a raid from the night of Friday, November 22 and the morning of November 23, in the city of León, west of Managua, that until now, according to various sources, , ended with the capture of more than 10 people, including activists, academics and journalists.
Two of the people who were captured and detained in the Police prisons in that department are the journalist Leo Catalino Cárcamo and the doctor and university professor of generations, the Dr. Arnoldo Toruño.
Cárcamo was a journalist for the defunct Radio Darío until four years ago, but he stopped collaborating with that media outlet, which now functions as a digital media outlet, precisely to avoid being imprisoned.
In January 2019, journalist Cárcamo, when he was still working at the station, He was violently detained by police officers. At that time “he was intercepted by the police who attacked him, handcuffed him and forcibly put him in a patrol car,” the radio outlet reported on that occasion.
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Dr. Toruño, former dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (Unan-León), is 78 years old and although he has been critical of the abusive actions of the Sandinista dictatorship, since 2020 he has not given his opinion on political situations and Due to his advanced age, he did not participate in activities that could put him at risk.
In November 2019, the Police, always under the command of Fidel Domínguez, raided, with canine technique, the doctor’s home, located in the La Ermita de Dolores neighborhood, but the action at that time was only intimidating and since Toruño was not there at home, they didn’t take him to jail either.
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Regarding the arrest of journalist Leo Cárcamo, the Alertas Libertad de Prensa Nicaragua platform also confirmed it through its account on the social network X.
«Freedom of the Press Alerts Nicaragua has been informed of a police raid that began on Friday afternoon and continued this Saturday morning. In this operation, the arrest of some activists, academics and even journalists has been recorded,” the organization published.
Press Freedom Alerts added in its tweet that “Daniel Ortega’s government is increasing the number of detained journalists. “It is urgent to put an end to this situation of systematic persecution and siege against communication professionals.”
Fidel Domínguez, the face of barbarism in León
The department of León has been battered by Sandinista commissioner Fidel Domínguez, one of the fiercest police chiefs who operates as a fanatic of the Sandinista Front party, rather than as an institution of order and security.
For his repressive actions, Domínguenz was sanctioned by the United States government, which designated him because “has directed numerous attacks against Nicaraguan citizens and journalists. For example, agents of the Nicaraguan National Police attacked a journalist during a police operation led by Domínguez. Dominguez also reportedly participated in torture and beatings “of a former opposition deputy and three members of a family of known opponents of the Ortega regime”
One of the most shameful acts that this police chief carried out was the torture against the family Reyes Alonso, de León, whom he tied up and recorded on videos while forcing them to commit “not to screw with the Police and the” Sandinista militants.
