Estelian lawyer and agronomist Luis Rodolfo Ibarra González, 64, disappeared for nine days at the hands of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, after having been kidnapped by the Sandinista Police in the midst of a repressive wave unleashed by the tyranny against the family. González, from that northern department.
A source close to the lawyer’s family, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, told Article 66 that, since Ibarra González was kidnapped by members of the regime’s repressive forces, on December 11, nothing has been known about him.
The friend of the González family indicates that some residents of the city of Estelí, who witnessed the kidnapping of the lawyer, told them what the arrest was like.
The operation was disproportionate and abusive
“He was executed by agents of the Rapid Intervention Group (GER) of the National Police, supported by paramilitaries,” said the source. The Sandinista uniformed men forced him to get out of the vehicle and took him away, apparently towards Managua.
Since that moment, the lawyer’s family has asked the police about the whereabouts of their relative. The henchmen of the regime first acknowledged that they had him detained, but hours later they denied having him in their possession and since then they have not been aware of the citizen, which is why he is considered in a condition of “forced disappearance due to concealment of whereabouts.”
The family later learned that their relative was taken to Managua and is being investigated for alleged “common crimes.” Likewise, sources close to the judiciary have indicated that their relative appears in court records as “Luis Rodolfo Gonzáles Martínez.”
Dictatorship has unleashed a Hunt against the González family
Luis Rodolfo Ibarra González, a native of Estelí, is an agricultural engineer, also a lawyer and notary public, with a master’s degree in criminal law, a profession he practiced until before being arrested by the repressive forces of the dictatorship.
Ibarra González is the first cousin of retired Army Major Eddie González, a veteran military intelligence officer, currently a political prisoner of the dictatorship after, in July of this year, he confronted the Police with gunshots when they tried to capture him inside. from his home without an arrest warrant or search warrant.
He is also the cousin of journalist Nohelia González, kidnapped by Ortega’s repressive agents and later exiled.
The Gonzalez’s friend maintains that the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has unleashed a real hunt against that family, considered one of the most representative of the so-called “historical Sandinism” in Estelí.
That sector of the ruling party is considered adverse to the leadership of the current vice president, Ortega’s wife and government spokesperson, Rosario Murillo, who is accused of holding de facto government power.
Lawyer trying to save family property from confiscation
Sources close to the Gonzalez family have told the media that lawyer Ibarra González, a few days before being kidnapped, had been making legal arrangements related to family properties, to try to keep them safe from confiscation.
One of those efforts was to obtain freedom from encumbrance of some of the assets to demonstrate that they are a family inheritance, and that they have been in the family for many years. This action alerted the repressive forces and they immediately proceeded to capture the jurist.
The González’s friend assures that the persecution against that family is evidenced by two imprisoned, one exiled and 16 who have been forced to leave the country to go into exile due to the harassment and surveillance of the dictatorship’s espionage forces.
