As part of the activities commemorating the fifth anniversary of the April Civic Rebellion, a series of events have been organized in various countries. In Chicago, United States, a mass will be held in memory of those assassinated by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The religious act will be held at the Santa María del Lago Church on April 30 at 12:00 pm, Eastern Time in the United States. The Eucharist will be presided over by the Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Monsignor Silvio José Báez.
The Nicaraguan exile community of the US Midwest from the States of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan have circulated the invitation to commemorate the people’s uprising against the Ortega Murillo dictatorship.
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“Because the Spirit of April has not died and the cry for justice, truth and democracy is still alive,” he told Article 66 the political prisoner released and exiled Ulises Rivas Pérez, member of the organizing committee.
The mass will be attended by former exiled politicians, exiled political prisoners, mothers of the victims of the dictatorship and the Nicaraguan community in that state of the United States.
After the Eucharist, there will be an event to share among those attending the commemoration of the April Rebellion and later a cultural event will take place in the atrium of the Santa María del Lago Church in Chicago, according to Rivas Pérez.
In April 2018, Nicaraguan youth demonstrated in the streets to reject the ineffectiveness of the dictatorship in putting out the flames in the Indio Maíz Biological Reserve. In that same month, a reform to the pension system and the labor and employer contribution of social security was approved. This unilateral decision of the regime launched the population to protest the repeal of said measures.
The state response was repression, bullets and death. According to updated figures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), 355 people were murdered in the context of the sociopolitical crisis. To date, all crimes remain unpunished.
The social, political, economic and human rights crisis has forced Nicaraguans to leave the territory in a mass exodus unprecedented in the country’s modern history. International human rights organizations have concluded that crimes against humanity were committed in Nicaragua.
