The released political prisoner Yubrank Suazo, through a statement commemorating the four years of the civic rebellion of April 2018, stated that he is committed to “dialogue and encounter” as a solution to the political crisis that Nicaragua faces to move from the «dictatorship to democracy».
“The civic rebellion of 2018 is not only a milestone in the contemporary history of our country, but rather, April is the beginning of a process of social, political and economic transformation. Likewise, it is a call to conscience to remember the struggles experienced to establish an incipient democracy through universal, free and secret suffrage in the 1990s,” said the ex-dictatorship prisoner.
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Suazo had supported the call for “dialogue” of the relatives of political prisoners made in January 2022, assuring that “we do not have, nor does anyone have the moral authority to point out the steps they take in favor of the freedom of political prisoners, by just as no one is asking for the honor and demands of the Nicaraguan people to be attacked.” Suazo called to negotiate the release of the more than 170 political prisoners at that time.
In the statement it indicates that “four years after the beginning of our struggle, the challenges are many, but the fundamental objective remains the same: to move from dictatorship to democracy.” As part of a solution to these challenges, he states that “I propose a unity in diversity, in the rest, in the convergence of strategies: unity in action and not in the role that is a genuine reflection of April 2018.”
“Pretending to impose that conflict between the right and the left is hackneyed, dissonant and even offensive to the memory of those who were assassinated and died being Sandinistas,” the opponent continued.
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“The youth, that moral reserve to which Monsignor Silvio Báez referred, is and must be the vanguard of the struggle, carrying with it the commitment to change in the establishment of the democratic order and laws of the republic,” he concluded.
Yubrank Suazo was imprisoned for more than nine months in the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, in Tipitapa, accused of terrorism. He was released on June 11, 2019 under the controversial amnesty law. After his release, he has joined politics, which has cost him siege and death and prison threats.
