The sister of the child martyr Álvaro Conrado, Rosa Conrado, dedicated a few words through her social networks before the recent death of her father and expressed that this situation only gives strength to keep in mind that “the fight continues. For this reason, no one gives up here.”
«I want to talk a little about my father (Álvaro Conrado), my father was always a person worth admiring, he taught me many things, including values. Because of him I have managed to achieve each of my goals and that is why I am where I am. He was not a very expressive person, but he always made sure that his children, Álvaro, Oliver and I, are aware of the love that he has for each one of us,” said Rosa Conrado.
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“That is why, until his last days, he worked hard so that my brother has the justice he deserves. The fight is not only for Álvaro, but for all those who were assassinated by the Ortega-Murillo regime. And that is why the fight continues. Something very important that my father taught me during my 17 years was to be a persistent person, to be someone who fights for what he believes in, before anything else, there is good. For this reason, no one gives up here,” added the daughter of Álvaro Conrado Avendaño.
«I remember that around 2020, my father gave an interview and he was very clear when he said “No one is going to have peace here, if we don’t have justice” (Conrado, A). That is why now the fight is not only for my brother, but for my father. For all the people who were and continue to be victims of the Government of Nicaragua, they all deserve justice. Our dead do not dialogue and neither do we », he concluded.
Álvaro Conrado, who was president of the Mothers of April Association (AMA), died on the night of Friday, January 27, in a Managua hospital. A source assured Article 66 that Alvarito Conrado’s father died of a heart attack, however, AMA did not provide details about the causes of death.
Conrado maintained his demand for justice for the death of his son Alvarito for years. The adolescent’s phrase “it hurts to breathe” was the emblem of the civic struggle of Nicaraguans and of the campaign that Conrado carried out for a time, even under the repression, siege and persecution of the regime, which forced him to lower his profile.
Human rights defenders mourned his death and expressed that they “honor his tireless struggle” and with his example of “fortitude and courage” they will continue to demand justice and the non-repetition of human rights crimes in Nicaragua.
