The former politician and former candidate for the Presidency of Nicaragua Juan Sebastian Chamorro recalled that on March 3, 2022, the Ortega judge of the Fifth Court of the Criminal Trial District, Felix Ernesto Salmeron Moreno, He was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the alleged crime of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity.”
In addition to Chamorro, the court sentenced former presidential candidates Arturo Cruz and Félix Maradiaga, as well as opposition leaders José Pallais and José Adán Aguerri and the leaders of the Blue and White National Unity (Unab) Tamara Dávila and Violeta Granera.
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The evidence presented by the Prosecutor’s Office was based on WhatsApp messages between political prisoners, search records, and items seized from detainees in their homes, such as cell phones, USB flash drives, computers, and other personal items.
“One year ago today, the” judge “Félix Salmerón handed down the sentence of 13 years in prison,” recalled the businessman through his Twitter account, and also pointed out the words he said “at the end of the judicial farce and before hear his guilty verdict.”
“I am very honored to be with these Nicaraguans in this place. I am very grateful to my defense and the collective defense for their work. At this moment I know that there are many things to think about, 51 years ago I had the gift of life, I have had a correct life, my resume shows that I have proceeded correctly and have sought to respond to the problems of my country, I have negotiated in favor of my country and that gives me peace of mind,” quoted the also declared stateless by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
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He stressed that his wish is that the entire situation that was happening against him “be documented —and— what is happening, so that my daughter and future generations know what is really happening, so that they can understand what has happened ».
«I am innocent, only God, history and my country Nicaragua can judge me. I am at peace, I have faith and hope because I know that God and Nicaraguans know that I am innocent”, he recalled the words with which he concluded before “his executioners of him”.
On February 9, Juan Sebastián was released from prison and exiled from Nicaragua along with 221 other former political hostages, whom the dictator Daniel Ortega declared traitors to the homeland.
Since their exile in the United States, the former political hostages have not remained silent, but have denounced all the abuses committed against them throughout the cautery suffered; They have also affirmed that despite the fact that the Nicaraguan regime took away their nationality, they will continue to demand justice.
