The last time the former presidential candidate Felix Maradiaga he saw his daughter Alexandra, the girl was six years old; now the youngest is nine and “she has grown so much! She Even she is a gymnast!”, The opposition leader expressed surprise at being able to share again with his family, after spending all those years without being able to leave Nicaragua and in jail by order of the Daniel Ortega dictatorship.
“God is good!” Said the released political prisoner on his Twitter account, attached to his post two photos in which he and his daughter can be seen walking hand in hand and doing gymnastics on the beach.
“A few days ago, the light was scarce and far away, and today I have even been able to exercise with my family,” he wrote this Sunday, March 5.
The girl Alejandra Victoria Maradiaga Valle he spent three birthdays without being able to hug his father Félix Maradiaga. Since 2020, the opposition leader was prevented from leaving Nicaragua by the regime, while his daughter and his wife, the also persecuted politician bertha valleyThey were out of the country.
Starting in June 2021, the Daniel Ortega regime denied the father and daughter the right to any kind of rapprochement, when it imprisoned the then presidential candidate of the opposition organization UNAB, a few months before the general elections. Maradiaga and his girl had to wait a year and a half to communicate by video call until December 2022.
The former presidential candidate was released on February 9 along with 221 other prisoners of conscience. The Nicaraguan dictatorship forced them into exile, sending them to the United States and declaring them stateless.
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Already in “freedom”, the opposition leader has denounced that, captive in the prison known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, he was able to verify “in a personal way and with horror the perverse imprint of authoritarianism and how it leaves its mark in all corners of the world with a clearly coordinated structure.”
“So, from the harsh experience in that Judicial Aid prison, I have also been able to verify that the Ortega regime did not hesitate to express its hatred of any person or sector of the Nicaraguan community, wherever it is that tries to stop the advances. of the dictatorship”, recently denounced before the European Parliament.
