Eddy Montes Praslin was murdered in the Jorge Navarro National Penitentiary System (SPN), known as “La Modelo”, in Tipitapa. It was the morning of May 16, 2019 when a bullet hit the 57-year-old man’s body.
“Don Eddy did not die, the Government killed him!” became the general cry demanding a response and actions against the perpetrators of the murder of the then political prisoner. Montes had two nationalities: American and Nicaraguan.
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«On this day 5 years ago Eddy Montes Praslin was murdered in a riot provoked by the Sandinista Police in the La Modelo Penitentiary System. We continue to demand justice,” wrote the Nicaraguan University Alliance (AUN) on its X account.
That day Montes began his daily routine talking with his fellow prisoners, all political prisoners of the dictatorship. “He was talkative, very affable and above all he knew how to listen to others,” recalled former political inmate Nahiroby Olivas, four years after his murder, during which time he knew him closely in prison. The man enjoyed sympathy and respect in the group of prisoners of conscience.
«That day was the blackest, bloodiest and most terrifying for all of us, after Eddy Montes was shot, who never left the perimeter that we are allowed. “He never attacked any official as the official media said, much less struggled with any guard,” said the formerly imprisoned politician Hansell Vásquez, in June 2019, after being released under the controversial Amnesty Law.
“They shot him solely for demanding that an official who was attacking us and threatening us with his AK rifle be replaced,” he added.
Various organizations, embassies and governments have spoken out in these five years for the dictatorship to clarify the circumstances of the death of Eddy Montes and for there to be justice in this and all cases of murders registered since April 2018.
