Óscar Téllez, brother of the former Sandinista guerrilla and political prisoner, Dora María Téllez, explained that he saw the physically and mentally solid opponent, during the eighth day of visits to prisoners of conscience locked up in the prisons of the Evaristo Vásquez Police Complex, better known as “The New Chipote”.
“She is a strong woman physically and mentally. She’s good mentally, she’s solid mentally and solid in her position as well. Regarding her last visit, I saw her a little better », said the brother of the hostage of the Daniel Ortega dictatorship, in an interview for the program This week.
This June 13, the also leader of the Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos) celebrates one year as a political prisoner by order of the Daniel Ortega dictatorship and despite this, Óscar Téllez indicated that the political leader is lucid, coherent and has her virtually intact sense of humor.
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«She enjoys the things we tell her and during the conversation I do not notice, let’s say, a cognitive deterioration, because I am not a psychiatrist, nor a psychologist, but I do not notice her distracted, nor losing the thread, not even losing her memory, which at this point already we began to have memory problems, “he highlighted in the Sunday program.
Likewise, he stressed that Dora María Téllez “is bothered by loneliness, is bothered by isolation, is specifically bothered by the gloom and told me that he thinks he has lost vision because of the dark, but there is no way that it does not affect him.”
Fewer interrogations
During the eighth day of visits, from June 9 to 12, “commander two” told her brother that they no longer subject her to interrogations as before, the last one was three weeks ago.
«She did not give me many details of the interrogation, she never likes to give me details because she sees them as inconsequential. She then she doesn’t stop to give me much detail. She says that she has been left alone, because before she was daily », she revealed.
“Emotionally she shows herself to be strong, she finds intellectual alternatives to cope with the situation of loneliness and isolation because she is the only one in that gallery who is isolated,” she added.
Honorary Doctorate of La Bribery
By unanimous decision of the Academic Council and with the approval of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, the University of Paris, known as the Sorbonne, will award the honorary doctorate to the political prisoner Dora Maria Tellez.
Óscar Téllez, brother of the Unamos leader, explained that the delivery of the recognition is scheduled for the end of November and the beginning of December of this year, for which he hopes that the former Sandinista guerrilla be free by then and can travel to France to receive such an “honorary” title.
According to her relative, Dora María Téllez received the news “with pleasure”. «It is an honor for her and for the whole family, I see that it is also a tribute to the political prisoners of Nicaragua, to the more than 180 prisoners of conscience, to make them visible, so that people know more every day, of the circumstances where they are,” he said.
The political prisoner was awarded this recognition for her political and scientific career of the 66-year-old historian; in addition to her contribution to social and international commitment.
