The now released politician Juan Sebastián Chamorro stated that the transfer from the torture cells of “El Nuevo Chipote” to the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport was the “most distressing” moment of his entire life, because the opponent along with the The other freed Nicaraguans did not know where they were going, because they left prison en masse and for them it was not “a good sign.”
In a video posted on your YouTube account, Chamorro explained that the night before his release and exile from Nicaragua, he was asleep in his cell, when a police officer came to wake him up and gave him and his cellmates, Róger Reyes and Álvaro Vargas, a bag with everyone’s clothes.
“We didn’t know what to do, because they had never come with our clothes, much less at night to change, and then, after a while, another police officer arrived, who was a little more experienced and came to control the situation and said: well now you all have to put on your clothes. “Here in the cell, I asked him. To which he answered yes, “” said the opponent.
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“Obviously we were nervous, because that had never happened, generally when the visitors arrived, they put you in these civilian clothes in a cell that they call preventive, which is when you enter the prisoner, they put you there, they undress you and you put on the uniform,” he said.
He also stated that he was able to listen to how the other political prisoners who were in the same pavilion were given the same advice. In this section of the prison Juan Lorenzo Holmann, Félix Maradiaga and José Antonio Peraza were in one cell, in another Lesther Aleman along with Irving Larios, in another cell Óscar René Vargas and Medardo Mairena and in another were the parents, the seminarians.
He added that after changing their clothes, the officers from El Nuevo Chipote “took us out in a group of more or less five or six people. Then they took us, and halfway between our corridor and the other corridor, which is just a matter of meters, the deputy commissioner is there and she tells us that you are going to bus number three».
“I thought they were going to take us to a special audience right there in El Chipote Nuevo, but when he said we were going to take the number three bus, we already realized that we were going somewhere. (…) that where we were going, obviously the first thing you wanted to think about is that you are going home, but the group of people that was too large made us think that we were going elsewhere en masse,” Chamorro said.
“After that, Commissioner Victoriano Ruiz arrived and said that we were going to be called by our names, that we lined up and got on the buses and that he did not know where the buses were going, that is what he told us. So, they started calling us by our names and they put plastic ties on us, and then I already told Róger this doesn’t sound good to me, I don’t like it. This that we go with flanges is not a good sign, “I continue.
Juan Sebastián Chamorro also explained that the buses that transported the group of 222 Nicaraguans released and exiled from the country were covered with cloth so that opponents could not see through the windows where they were going.
“That moment on the way to the airport was the most harrowing, the most harrowing of my entire life. Because I thought they were going to take me to La Modelo. A trip that I felt for hours », he maintained.
«I was thinking that we were going to La Modelo, but we passed the Camino Real on the north highway, and at the roundabout I saw that the bus that was going ahead turned to the right at the Air Force gate, so I told Roger that this means Let’s go outside and there I took a deep breath calmly, it really gave me enormous peace to know that this theme of La Modelo was not going to be, but that it was soon going to be in another place, I did not know where, because we had no information, ” I continue recounting.
In addition, Chamorro indicated that at the Air Force offices “an officer arrived with some very basic, very simple papers, that I said the blank space, I am voluntarily willing to go to the blank space and you signed it. So, I didn’t read that, they didn’t give it out, but rather the policeman went where the last ones in the back were and I began to hear that he was reading out loud who was signing and they were filling in the name and they put United States, then until that moment we realized where we were going ».
“We arrived at the airstrip, there was an official from the State Department (of the United States) and they began to explain to us that we were going to Washington DC and I was happy for that, I thanked her very much. (…) I got to the steps and there were no more policemen there, there was nothing, I knelt down, put one knee on the ground and my right hand on the asphalt and raising my hand I crossed myself and got on the plane. And when he entered I see several colleagues sitting, all hugging us, happy, excited and happy.
Currently, the opponent is trying to resume his life in freedom and then continue his fight to achieve the release of Nicaragua and all the other political prisoners who are still languishing in prison.
“Prayer and exercise kept my faith and hope. Many times I dreamed of walking through nature in freedom. Thank God for doing the miracle,” she wrote on his Twitter account.
