Karla Patricia Vega Canalesoriginally from the municipality of El Rosario, in the department of Carazo, is one of the 222 former political prisoners whom the Nicaraguan regime released and exiled to the United States, on February 9 of this year.
The opponent was held captive for three months in one of the cells of the Jinotepe police station. The Ortega judge Jose del Carmen Cortez Dominguez, of the First Criminal District Trial Court of Carazo, found her guilty for the alleged crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and propagation of false news. The Prosecutor requested eight years from prison.
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In a brief interview with Article 66, Vega said that after his release, he left with psychological and psychiatric problems due to the psychological torture he suffered at the hands of the Police at the service of the Nicaraguan regime. “I am currently undergoing treatment. It has been very difficult because I walk like a drugged person “, she recounted.
He added that they were three “hard” months, but he assures that he thanked God and the Virgin because he got out of jail alive. “I was in one of the cells in the Carazo department, but they treated me cruelly,” she denounced.
Other of the sufferings of the now exiled politician was the fear that her daughter was a victim of the Nicaraguan dictatorship. “I also suffered for my mother, because I did not know how her health was.”
Victim of abuse of authority
Regarding the mistreatment she suffered in prison, Karla Vega explained that she suffered daily offenses from the Ortega Police and common areas that made her life impossible.
“What hurt me the most was when they accused me of having a cell phone in my cell, they stripped me naked, and you can imagine other things they did to me,” described the 43-year-old opponent.
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He also refers to the fact that he was denied the right to go out into the prison yard to receive sun, which caused him to gradually lose his vision; “He didn’t have the right to visits either. “My relatives were only able to visit me twice, after begging them.”
Vega was arrested on November 5 on the eve of the municipal votes. Police officers forcibly removed her from her home without a warrant.
Now, outside of Nicaragua, the former political kidnapped affirms that she will fight to recover from all the emotional trauma caused by being locked up unfairly, just for being an opponent of the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship.
