Relatives of the opposition Brenda Lee Baldelomaroriginally from the department of Chinandega, denounced that she was kidnapped on Monday, April 17, days before the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the civic rebellion on April 19, 2018.
Hants Ismael Baldelomarson of the 47-year-old citizen, denounced before Article 66 that the arbitrary detention was between six and seven at night, in one of the streets of the Roberto González neighborhood, in the city of western Nicaragua.
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«My mother was going to the sale to buy a cheese, when she was intercepted, on the south side of the Juan B Zelaya school, by two police patrols. Some of the officers were in civilian clothes; They took her away without giving any explanation,” said the detainee’s son, who is in exile in the United States.
He also stressed that the Chinandega Police limited themselves to informing a family member of Baldelomar that she had been transferred, the same day of the arrest, to Managua, without specifying which delegation.
“We do not know if my mother was transferred to El Chipote or to Police District III. It would be until next Monday that she will go to Managua to ask about her whereabouts and her situation, “said the detainee’s son with concern, adding that her mother has hypertension and hearing problems.
Regarding the political participation of the Chinandegana opposition, her relatives reported that she is a member of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC). «My mother has always been an opponent and on her Facebook social network she spoke against the Ortega regime, for that reason she was threatened and harassed by the Police and paramilitaries; and days before the arrest she had told us that she was being watched ».
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He also indicated that “through a confidant” it was learned that his mother will be taken, next week, to the Managua courts, where she will be accused of drug trafficking, “which is a total lie, because the only crime is that she is an opponent the government,” he reproached.
Since the beginning of April, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo launched a wave of arbitrary detentions against opponents. According to Blue and White Monitoring, to date, the rregime has detained 39 peopleamong which are the student leader Jason Salazar and the former politician Olesia Munoz.
The Ortega regime declared April 19 National Peace Day, but its repressive wave continues, and despite the fact that on February 9 it exiled 222 former political prisoners, little by little it continues to fill the different prisons in the country, an action that is condemned by human rights organizations and the international community.
