Álvaro Conrado Avendaño, father of the first minor —Alvaro Conrado Davila— assassinated in the civic protests of 2018, died this Friday night in Managua, reported the Mothers of April Association (AMA), of which he was president.
In a statement, AMA noted that “Don Álvaro played a fundamental role in the development of our association. As president of AMA, he has been an example and source of inspiration in our fight for justice and truth.
“Your tireless work and commitment to the collective hope of a better future for everyone, as well as to the non-repetition of what happened after the state repression suffered since April 2018, will serve as inspiration, light and guidance to continue. his legacy,” they stressed.
Since 2018, Conrado Avendaño dedicated himself to demanding justicenationally and internationally, for the murder of a 15-year-old son, who died of a shot to the neck on the afternoon of Friday, April 20 of that year.
The teenager went to bring water to the young people who were demonstrating against the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, when a sniper shot him on the grounds of the National Engineering University (UNI). In his agony, the minor uttered the phrase: “it hurts to breathe”, which became a symbol of the civic struggle against the dictatorship.
The minor was taken to the Cruz Azul Hospital as an emergency, but they denied him care on the grounds that the then Minister of Health, Sonia Castro, had ordered not to treat the citizens injured in the protests.
search for justice
“My son was a normal child and it really hurts me (…) but I don’t want a martyr, that doesn’t work for me, what I ask for is justice,” said Conrado Avendaño, in May 2018 when he filed a complaint with the Nicaraguan Prosecutor’s Officewhere they never gave him an answer.
“The people (guilty of the murder) have to be punished and the law has to be applied to them,” he said at the time.
The consternation of a victim of not seeing Justice is undermining and deteriorating his physical and mental health. Family members fight daily for justice. My solidarity with AMA and relatives of Don Alvaro Conrado whom I met in 2018. pic.twitter.com/CnCZCtT0HE
– Yonarqui Martinez G (@YonarquiM) January 28, 2023
The lawyer Yonarqui Martínez, recognized for defending political prisoners, commented on Twitter that “hehe dismay of a victim of not seeing justice is undermining and deteriorating their physical and mental health. Relatives daily fight for justice”.
My prayers for the death of Mr. Álvaro Conrado Avendaño, father of the boy Alvarito Conrado and president of @MothersOfApril.
He dies without seeing justice for the crime against his son Alvarito, led by the Nicaraguan dictatorship. My condolences to family and @MothersOfApril.— Edwing Roman (@EdwingRoman14) January 28, 2023
The priest Edwin Román, former parish priest of the San Miguel Church, in Masaya, and now in exile, expressed his condolences and highlighted that Conrado Avendaño “He died without seeing justice for the crime against his son”.
