José Manuel Narváez was killed by paramilitaries who shot him and the bullet went through his ribs, piercing his right lung, according to his relatives. This March 8, he turned 46 months old and the crime continues “in impunity.” The Mothers of April Association (AMA) continues to demand justice for Narváez and the other victims of the regime.
“My son and all those murdered on July 8, 2018, have spent 46 months of impunity for their murders. My heart aches, my pain and impotence are still alive, my thirst for justice is still my greatest desire today. We will never give up,” said the young man’s mother, who was known as “Chema” in her native Jinotepe.
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Narváez was 22 years old when he was killed. His father José Alejandro Narváez describes him as “a strong person, very sociable and supportive. He began to participate in the marches with his old friends from school after the first peaceful protests, and then in the “roadblocks”, where he was killed during a “clean-up operation” carried out by paramilitaries.
The day he was killed, the young man had left on his motorcycle at six in the morning in the direction of the Jinotepe hospital, when on the way they called him from the San José roadblock, apparently requesting his presence. He headed towards the place through the same street that he had traveled, without knowing that the paramilitaries had already entered Jinotepe and had swept the San José roadblock.
His mother recounts that “when the attack began, people heard the shots, but no one could leave their house. We were incommunicado, there was no internet or electricity and the phones were dead. There was no way of knowing what was going on. During the attack she saw that a sea of people was coming and that the boys were spreading out. Someone passed by my house and from the street he yelled at me that my son had been killed». Chema’s mother saw the boy’s lifeless body at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Managua. He had multiple scratches.
Relatives of victims continue to seek justice
Tamara Morazán, a member of AMA and sister of the young Jonathan Morazán, stated in an interview with Article 66 that «the Nicaraguan regime has not had the slightest will to respond to the cases of our relatives, we have been denied access to justice from day one and the narrative of the State is that our relatives were criminals. One of our main challenges has been to fight against a corrupt regime, which has not given us any response.
He continued adding that «for us these four years mean pain, they mean frustration, but above all they mean resistance, they have been four years in which the mothers of April have not renounced justice and rather we have strengthened ourselves, we know that the road to justice can be in the medium or long term. We as mothers of April have the responsibility that in Nicaragua they never again commit a crime against citizens, we have that desire and that commitment to the memory of our relatives and the people of Nicaragua.
In turn, he reiterated that the association continues to keep alive the memory of those assassinated by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo through “the museum of memory” that has toured several Central American and European countries as a cry for justice before the international community.
