The released political prisoner, Carlos Valle, was recaptured by the regime’s police on November 5, one day before the municipal electoral farce. Since then, his family has not heard anything about him and they presume that he is being held in the prison of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, known as El Chipote, located southwest of Managua.
elsa valley, The daughter of Carlos Valle and also a political prisoner, explained that a police patrol showed up at her house in the early hours of Saturday, November 5, and without any court order, her father was taken into custody.
The Valle family had planned to go into exile in the United States (USA) but “they denied us a visa, so we decided to come wet and he was going to join us later,” said Elsa Valle.
“We left (the house) at 3:00 in the morning and at about 5:00 am they came looking for him. They entered the house without order, with nothing, and they took him away abruptly in a patrol car,” Valle said by telephone from Mexico, the country to which he left with his son, mother and sister, hours before the police took him into custody. his father.
This is the third time that the regime’s Police have captured the political prisoner Carlos Valle. The first time occurred in September 2018, for demanding the freedom of his daughter Elsa. The second time was in October 2019, for allegedly colliding with a police officer.
For the family “it has been a very difficult situation because we have been through so many things“, commented Elsa Valle. “If I were in Nicaragua, I wouldn’t mind going to ask about my father, despite the risk, but what can I do at this moment… I feel desperate for not being able to do anything, I would like to go back,” she added.
Valle also lamented that “nobody” has explained anything to him about the whereabouts of his father, who is an elderly person and suffers from several chronic illnesses that arose as a consequence of the times he has been in prison.
“He took pills for depression because there was a time when he went to a psychologist and a psychiatrist, he also suffers from high blood pressure,” Valle said. He also assured that “at the time they came to arrest him he had taken his pills.”
In recent years, Carlos Valle had withdrawn from political activism “because being against those people (the government) and being inside Nicaragua is risking your life, but I don’t know what they have against him,” Valle stressed.
