The councilor recently elected to the Bocana de Paiwas Mayor’s Office, jurisdiction of the Autonomous Region of the South Caribbean Coast, Joghenys María Saballos Hernández, 34, died of a gunshot wound yesterday, Tuesday, November 29, presumably at the hands of her partner. who turned himself in to the authorities after the crime.
The body of the Sandinista councilor was found by a resident at around 11:00 p.m. Tuesday on the road that leads to Bocana Paiwas, according to information published in official media. They report that the subject identified as Arsenio José Hurtado, was drinking liquor in the bar “El último trago”, then he went to look for his spouse who was in a meeting. Minutes later they both left in a truck, but on the way they argued and Hurtado shot him.
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The woman with a gunshot wound got out of the truck and fled. They affirm that the perpetrator is the brother of the current mayor of Bocana de Paiwas. The Police captured him and confiscated the 3.57 revolver with which they claim he killed his wife, and the truck in which they were traveling.
Hernández was recently elected as a councilor who owns Bocana de Paiwas by the Alianza Nicaragua Triunfa in the municipal votes on November 6, 2022.
The body of the victim is in the house of the Secretariat of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) party to be delivered to his relatives. Saballos Hernández was originally from the town of Santa Rosa.
Recently, the feminist organization Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir reported that 57 femicides have been registered in the country that were committed in the national territory and nine were perpetrated abroad: three in Costa Rica, two in Panama and four in Guatemala, countries Central American countries where entire families have emigrated due to the repression of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
In Nicaragua, the autonomous regions of the Caribbean are the main areas of the country where femicides have been registered, totaling 14; It is followed by Managua with 13 and the departments of Matagalpa and León with 5 each; Río San Juan, Jinotega, Rivas and Estelí two murders of women each and in Boaco, Chinandega and Nueva Segovia, one femicide per department. 33 femicides were carried out in rural areas and 24 in urban areas.
Catholics for the Right to Decide has criticized the lack of interest of the Daniel Ortega dictatorship in the face of the growing wave of femicides in the country. They have also said that the State of Nicaragua is absent and given the geographical difficulties, remoteness and poverty, impunity prevails in cases where the victims are rural women.
