On June 23, 2018, Father’s Day in Nicaragua, the 14-month-old boy was killed with an accurate AK-47 rifle shot to the head. Teyler Lorio Navarrete, who was carried in the arms of his father, Nelson Lorío Sandoval. The event took place in the sector of the Americas One in Managua when in the capital police and paramilitaries carried out a violent “Operation Cleanup”, which consisted of dismantling the opposition’s barricades at the point of bullets.
The murder —according to his father— happened at 6:30 in the morning, while he was hurrying to get to his parents’ house to drop off the baby and go with his wife Karina Navarrete to work.
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As an unusual event, the medical opinion issued by the German Nicaraguan Hospital stated at that time that the infant’s death could have been a suicide, which filled his parents with annoyance and indignation. «The German Hospital through the pediatrician Tamy Tijerino issued a medical opinion indicating suspicion of suicide, something illogical and absurd, “the victim’s father reproached indignantly at that time.
“June 23 was very hard, not only for me as Teyler’s father, but also for other families in the eastern neighborhoods who also lost their relatives, that all they did was raise their voices and demand justice and freedom,” he recalled. Nelson Lorío in a past interview given to Article 66.
The parents of the minor blame the unpunished crime on the Police and paramilitaries who on that occasion executed the so-called “Cleaning Plan” in the eastern neighborhoods of Managua, an order that left dozens dead and wounded.
Today, June 23, 2022, four years after the murder of one of the minor victims during the 2018 civic rebellion, Nelson Lorío regrets that the death of his baby continues without justice.
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«Four years ago they snatched you from my arms today with no intention of anything more than crying knowing that you are not here while some Ortega files speak of dialogue and understanding but do not know what it is to be in this eternal suffering. Teyler present », expressed the father of Lorío’s child on his Twitter account.
Forced into exile for demanding justice
Demanding justice for the death of Teyler Lorío led the minor’s parents to be victims of repression, siege and persecution, forcing them to go into exile for the second time, this time in the United States.
“Thank God we reached our destination. Now it’s time to start from scratch, but we are not and will not be alone, angels guide our way in this new process », wrote Nelson Lorío Sandoval through his Twitter account on Wednesday, December 8, 2021.
In an interview given to 100% Noticias, Nelson Lorío recounted the long journey he went through with his wife Karina Alejandra Navarrete and their 10-year-old daughter, JLN, to reach US soil in search of political asylum and thus get away from the repression of the regime of Daniel Ortega.
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For the critic of the Ortega dictatorship, starting from scratch “is quite difficult”, because leaving Nicaragua and arriving in the United States is a new challenge, “but I have faith in God that he will open doors and touch hearts”, express.
