The Nicaraguan community in Los Angeles, California, United States, called for a march to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Civic Rebellion of April 2018. The invitation has been shared by the main opposition leaders who were released from prison and exiled to the United States Joined.
The member of the Civic Alliance, Juan Sebastián Chamorro; the member of the National Unity, Álex Hernández; the peasant leader Medardo Mairena; the political scientist and former presidential candidate, Félix Maradiaga, are some of the opponents who invited this massive mobilization in the United States.
The demonstration of Nicaraguan exiles and the diaspora will take place next Saturday, April 22, at 11 in the morning. The rally point for the march is Pershing Square 530 S, Olive Street, Los Angeles, California.
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«Let us march together to some of our released brothers for the freedom of those who still remain. Together we will be denouncing the violations of human rights in Nicaragua”, reads the invitation published on social networks.
“Bring your flags and your banners this April 22 at 11:00 am because #AbrilNoseOlvida,” Chamorro wrote on his social networks. “Nicaraguans in Los Angeles, we invite you to March Together for our beloved Nicaragua, bring your flags and your banners,” Hernández added on Twitter.
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.
