The Center for Inter-American Legal Assistance in Human Rights (CALIDH) lamented the death of Alvaro Conrado Avendanofather of the martyred child alvarito conradoand blamed the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo for the death of another relative who was unable to receive justice for the crimes committed since April 2018 in Nicaragua.
The organization, based in Argentina, denounced that “the systematic denial of the State” to investigate, prosecute and convict those responsible and “the practice that criminalizes the tireless search for truth, memory and reparation, has caused the deterioration of the physical and emotional health of the next of kin of the victims.”
“The death of each family member under these circumstances is the responsibility of the State,” Calidh said.
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In its release It also points out that the struggle of the fathers and mothers of the people executed by the Nicaraguan government are “valuable for the construction of the truth in the face of the perenniality of the state discourse of non-participation and responsibility of its officials in the massive violations of human rights » since the 2018 crackdown.
Don 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, the AMA association did not provide details about the causes of his death.
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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.
