The Nicaraguan ex-guerrilla and historian Dora Maria Tellez67, is still unclear where she will settle in the coming months, after being released from prison and expelled from her country by the government of Daniel Ortega.
Téllez spent more than 600 days in a maximum security prison in Managua, known as El Chipote, until she was released along with more than 200 other political prisoners in a surprise manner on Thursday.
Now in Washington, where he is, he is analyzing his future and for the moment “it is very soon to be clear about it”, he indicates, as he assures that he must allow ideas to be ordered.
“I still don’t know what I will do, there are many plans,” says Téllez, but something is clear. “The essential decision is that I am going to continue fighting for the freedoms of Nicaragua and that places me in front of Nicaragua, wherever I am.”
And in fact, Téllez, a dissident of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party, began his activism again by denouncing what he experienced in the Chipote prison in Managua, where he was isolated from the rest of the people for more than 600 days.
And he does it, as he says, to feel free after all the humiliations that he says he experienced.
“Here I am speaking again, but where I was was a total isolation regime. It was a dark cell, I even counted that during the 1,440 minutes that a day has, I could speak for a minute between speaking with the officers, then there was a moment when I began to lose my voice, because I did not speak… it was a regime of psychological and emotional torture.
Samantha Jironwho was the youngest political prisoner in Nicaraguan prisons, plans several things, including studying in Spain, since that country offered nationality to the 222 released political prisoners.
“I came to tell that the 1,440 minutes that a day has… was a regimen of psychological and emotional torture”
But first Jirón, 23, indicates that he has another priority. “My main priority right now is to be reunited with my family soon, the second is to stabilize myself and the third is to continue my career,” says Jirón.
Sports writer Miguel Mendoza, who was imprisoned for more than 591 days, also mentions that he is enthusiastic about his freedom, but says that for now he prefers not to talk about his plans for the future.
“It’s very early right now, I don’t know where I’m going, I have options to go to Miami, or to my oldest son who lives in Nashville, Tennessee… for now I’m happy because I’ll be able to see the World Baseball Classic,” the chronicler says with a smile. .
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