the political prisoner Miguel Mora-Barberena She has been on a hunger strike for 35 days in protest because the authorities of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), in Managua, do not allow her to see her son, Miguel Mora Chavez, known as “Miguelito”, 21 years old, who has a motor disability.
The news of the decision of the also owner of the confiscated channel 100% Noticias, was recently announced by his wife, the journalist Verónica Chávez, after the last visit he made to her on July 23. Chávez also pointed out that Mora demanded access to a Bible.
After learning of the situation Mora is going through, his wife told Article 66 fear for the repercussions on your health that you may have by refraining from eating solid foods, depending only on water and whey.
«As a family we are extremely concerned, thinking about the repercussions that Miguel (Mora) may have; The only thing left for me is to cling closer to God and pray, because the truth is that after a year — detained — Miguel is desperate,” said Chávez.
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“This decision —by Miguel Mora— has not been capricious and irresponsible, but because it is a year since he has seen the boy Miguelito,” added Chávez, who assured that several requests have already been made to the authorities of the new Chipote, such as DAJ is known, without obtaining a positive response.
“Faced with this situation, my husband has been forced to resort to this extreme measure such as the hunger strike, putting his life at risk (…) I am worried, firstly because of the impression that this news gave me and secondly because I do not know how it is, I don’t know if they are checking it,” Chávez expressed with concern.
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He stressed that in this year and 45 days of kidnapping, the former presidential candidate has lost more than 30 pounds in weight. “On the last visit that we were allowed – the relatives – I told him: ‘Idiay, I see you thinner, are you not eating? ‘And it was at that moment when he told me the news, “he said.
Miguelito with emotional repercussions
Regarding the situation of Miguelito for not seeing his father, Chávez pointed out that “if for us who do not have difficulties it has been very hard, now imagine for a child with disabilities, where his world was his father; Miguelito’s world is just his family », he said with his broken voice.
«Miguel is a father devoted to his son, he was the one who took him to therapy, he was the one who took him to the pools. Miguelito is what he is because his father gave himself a lot to him … », she remarked.
He emphasized that as a father, Mora has been able to bring his son forward. “As a couple we shared the responsibilities (…) because parents must be involved in Miguelito’s therapies, but the child has a special relationship with his father, however now, thank God, I have tried to assume it alone.”
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Other situations that Verónica Chávez mentioned with concern are the emotional repercussions that Miguel Mora Chávez is presenting. “He doesn’t want to eat, he’s just crying and every time we ask him why he is like this, he asks “where is dad?, take me to dad”. He sometimes even gets upset, because he believes that we are what we do not want to take him ».
“Let’s remember that Miguelito has a disability (paralysis) and they give him emotional crises and with this it is worse. We have to take him to the doctor, who sends us to do many therapies and try to get him ahead, but it is very difficult when the cure is in his dad and you can’t. That meeting is in the hands of the State and the judicial authorities that allow Miguel the right to see his son », he added.
“Miguelito has the right to see his father”
In addition, he criticized the fact that the police authorities argue that not letting Mora’s son enter is due “to a logistical thing.” “Although it is true, we call him Miguelito because he is like a child, but he is legally 21 years old, so he has no impediment to see his father.”
He also asserted that the Ortega regime by not allowing Mora to see his son, the action becomes discrimination, “because I do not find any reason not to allow it. I would really like to know why they don’t do it », he refuted.
Verónica Chávez fears for Miguelito’s health because it becomes more and more distressing not to have his father close by. “When Miguel asks me about the child, he worries a lot and gets desperate.”
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Compared to the first incarceration that Miguel Mora had in 2018, where he was held for more than six months in the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, known as “la Modelo”, in Tipitapa, the journalist recalled that Miguelito was allowed in that prison. see his father.
«And in the Model it is difficult, because the streets are dirt and one walks almost a kilometer to reach the cells, and I went with Miguelito, and he was happy because we told him that we were going to work where his father was, but In El Chipote the streets are cobbled and there would be no problem taking him in his wheelchair,” he questioned.
Ortega’s victim
Ortega’s justice system accused the journalist of allegedly conspiring “to undermine national integrity” and the Second Judge of the Criminal District of Managua, Nadia Camila TardencillaHe was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
The journalist was subjected to attacks, cyber harassment by supporters of the regime and since the end of 2018 the equipment, frequency and facilities of Canal 100% Noticias were confiscated.
Between December 2018 and June 2019, Mora was imprisoned by the dictatorship on charges of inciting hatred to promote terrorist acts during anti-government protests. He was released six months later under a controversial amnesty law.
In 2020 he showed his interest to run as a candidate for the Presidency of Nicaragua in the 2021 presidential elections; he was the candidate for the outlawed Democratic Restoration Party (PRD), which caused him to once again be a target of the dictatorship, who once again kidnapped him.
Chávez, who has been married to the political prisoner for 23 years and has experienced his absence twice, concluded that it has been more than a difficult year. “It is very painful, but I want to testify that the only one who has given me the strength is God, without God I would be nothing. Only God is the one who has given me the strength and strength to get up every day for the child, for Miguel and for Nicaragua, because we have to continue praying for peace in Nicaragua.
