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Photo gallery: Hugo Torres, the ex-guerrilla fighter who freed Somoza’s political prisoners, including Daniel Ortega

Photo gallery: Hugo Torres, the ex-guerrilla fighter who freed Somoza's political prisoners, including Daniel Ortega

Former guerrilla fighter Hugo Torres Jiménez, retired brigadier general, political prisoner of the Daniel Ortega regime, and who passed away this Saturday, February 12, He was the only one among the former cadres of the Sandinista Front who risked his life in two military operations to free prisoners of conscience during the Somocista dictatorship, including Daniel Ortega himself, who ended up becoming the executioner of his last days.

Torres Jiménez died at the age of 73, after more than two months in which Ortega kept his physical whereabouts and health condition hidden, after he was imprisoned on June 13, 2021 in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ) , the “Chipote”. His capture was the result of a political hunt against the leadership of the Renovating Democratic Union (Unamos), which included the historian and former guerrilla, Dora María Téllez, -sentenced to eight years in prison- and the vice chancellor of Nicaragua, Víctor Hugo Tinoco.

Torres joined the Sandinista Front in 1971 and in July 1974, without completing his law studies, he went into hiding, says former guerrilla Mónica Baltodano, in her memory of the armed struggle. The operation in which he freed Ortega was called December Victorious, They kidnapped Somocista government officials who attended a party and the commando negotiated the release of prisoners of conscience.

This is a tour of Torres through some of the main moments he experienced during the first Sandinista government, from which he separated in the 1990s and became one of his main critics.

“I am 73 years old. I never thought that at this stage of my life I would be fighting in a civic and peaceful way against a new dictatorship,” Torres said in a video recorded before his arrest. “These are desperate blows by a regime that feels moribund, that has no legal basis, that has no justification to remain in power,” he added.

Press conference by former guerrillas Hugo Torres, Roberto Mayorga and Dora María Téllez, current political prisoner of the Daniel Ortega regime, about the assault on the National Palace in August 1978.
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Photo gallery: Hugo Torres, the ex-guerrilla fighter who freed Somoza's political prisoners, including Daniel Ortega
Retired brigadier general and political prisoner of the Ortega regime, Hugo Torres (RIP), behind Edén Pastora, known as Commander Zero. Both talk with Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo (RIP) during the days of the seizure of the National Palace in August 1978. Photo/Taken from the Internet.
Photo gallery: Hugo Torres, the ex-guerrilla fighter who freed Somoza's political prisoners, including Daniel Ortega
Command of the Sandinista Front, which took over the house of Chema Castillo, to free political prisoners of the Somocista dictatorship, including Daniel Ortega. Photo/taken from the Internet.
Photo gallery: Hugo Torres, the ex-guerrilla fighter who freed Somoza's political prisoners, including Daniel Ortega
Hugo Torres in a photo from the 1980s, receiving a military decoration. Photo/Personal file Óscar Navarrete
Photo gallery: Hugo Torres, the ex-guerrilla fighter who freed Somoza's political prisoners, including Daniel Ortega
The former guerrilla, Hugo Torres, hugs Roberto Calderón, one of the Sandinistas released after the assault on the National Palace, in August 1978. Photo/La Prensa, Nicaragua
Photo gallery: Hugo Torres, the ex-guerrilla fighter who freed Somoza's political prisoners, including Daniel Ortega
At the center of the photograph, the former guerrilla, Dora María Téllez, the former guerrilla, Hugo Torres and the former vice-chancellor Víctor Hugo Tinoco. All of them became political prisoners of the Ortega regime. Téllez and Tinoco were found guilty of the crime of “undermining national integrity.” The former guerrilla was sentenced to eight years in prison and the Prosecutor’s Office asks for 13 for the former vice chancellor.
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