Bertha Valley, wife of imprisoned ex-presidential candidate Felix Maradiaga, made a dedication to her husband on the occasion of their wedding anniversary this Saturday, January 7. The also politically persecuted she celebrates two years of not celebrating the date with her husband, imprisoned at the gates of the 2021 presidential elections.
“My husband, my Félix”, titled the dedication published on his social networks. In it, she explained that this day they celebrate 17 years of marriage and, from a distance, she wants him and the world to know that “she misses him a lot.”
“Although today I remember that there are two consecutive years in which we have not been able to be together to celebrate, because they keep you unjustly imprisoned, I also remember the many years that we sat down to talk about all the things that we yearn to achieve together,” Valle wrote, attaching a video with photos of your wedding.
Valle, who is a believer in Jesus Christ, added a biblical passage that, according to the couple, has accompanied them since their union. «I recite 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, the passage that has always accompanied us: “Love is long-suffering, it is benign; love does not envy, love is not boastful, it is not puffed up; He does not do anything wrong, he does not look for his own, he does not get irritated, he does not hold a grudge; You don’t enjoy injustice, but you enjoy the truth. Everything suffers, everything believes, everything awaits, everything endures.
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The video is set to music with the song “Brazos al Sol”, performed by the Nicaraguan Katia Cardenal. bertha valley She indicated that, once again, she and Maradiaga dedicate the melody to each other on this day “as we did on our wedding day.”
“I look forward to being able to dance it with you again,” Valle said.
Berta Valle and their daughter, Alejandra, currently nine years old, are in exile. Valle continues to demand the release of Félix Maradiaga and the more than 200 Nicaraguan political prisoners before the international community.
The presidential candidate of the Blue and White National Unity (UNAB) was sentenced to 13 years in prison in July 2022, accused of the alleged “undermining of national integrity to the detriment of the State of Nicaragua and Nicaraguan society”, a crime that the regime by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo invented against opposition leaders and trade unions.
Maradiaga is in the cells of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, in Managua, classified as a torture center. .
