It was almost three in the morning when Marta Cáliz heard noises in the patio of her house. She was alone with her 14-year-old daughter, so she remained silent and “dead” with fear, since the only thing she perceived was the sound of a spray. She immediately knew that she was staining the walls of her house.
Cáliz comments that in 2018, she and her husband Orczy Muñiz participated in marches against the Sandinista government, an action that since then has caused their family separation. Her husband was the first to leave the country due to constant threats of imprisonment from government sympathizers.
“This was about a month and a half ago, those bums, because that’s what bums are, they entered the patio of my house, removed the fence and stained the patio wall, they put that they already knew where my husband was and that They were not going to rest until they saw us in prison, also in the front of the house they put the word lead“, detailed the affected.
right to protest
The woman from Diriambina recounted that at that moment she was filled with great fear because only memories of the burning of the family in the Carlos Marx neighborhood of Managua appear in her mind, an action for which they point to paramilitaries. For this reason, she decided to publicly denounce the siege and the threats.
«I was afraid because I was alone with my daughter. The truth was that I felt like I was in a labyrinth, but one day we decided that we could no longer be in this place or in the country and we made the decision to leave. They practically forced us to flee as if we were criminals, which is the opposite, because we only did what everyone else did; unite with the people to get Daniel Ortega out of the country,” Cáliz said very sadly.
in exile
On February 20, the woman from Diriambina managed to reach the United States with her daughter, where her husband was already waiting for her, who has requested political asylum in that country, after being attacked and harassed by Sandinista sympathizers from her neighborhood.
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«It is not easy to leave your country, your things, your house, because as the laws are, it is most likely that you will be confiscated. There are persecutions, the harassment continues, just like the threats with those looks. We live all of this in our own flesh, there is nothing normal in Nicaragua, “he said by telephone for this report.
In the department of Carazo, there are still families that are experiencing this type of violation of their rights and many are looking for a way to leave the country in order to safeguard their lives and seek other opportunities. Now the fear is also losing the properties that they were forced to abandon, but that cost them years of work.
By: United Voices
