Anguish and pain have seized a family in Camoapa due to the disappearance of Mr. Armando Torres García, 70 years old, who has been missing for almost three months. He left his house and never came back.
His relatives have been looking for him since August 23, the day he disappeared. According to what they say, Don Armando, as those who know him in Camoapa affectionately call him, left his house, located three blocks east from the municipal market, towards his sister’s house, which is located in front of the multipurpose gym, approximately four blocks away. .
When they did not return, the family decided to start the search, first in the house of their other relatives in Camoapa and in the nearby towns, but it was not possible to establish any probable route at that time.
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According to the account of Dora Elena Torres, Armando’s sister, he actually went to his other sister who lives in front of the gym, but he left from there and it was assumed that he was going back home.
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Don Armando has mental problems and on several occasions has received care in the Managua psychiatric hospital, a condition that caused him disorientation and distortion of reality. Due to his health, the older adult used to get lost, but he was always located at the home of a relative within the city of Camoapa or in other towns.
Apparently he was seen on a farm in the municipality of Cuapa, where his parents had lived when he was a child, but the information was not concrete.
Other news known during his search indicated that he had been in the city of Juigalpa, but the efforts have not borne much fruit and it was not possible to clearly identify the clues that would allow him to recognize possible routes.
Even a team of private investigators worked for a week in the search for Don Armando, without positive results, “we managed to get some people who were military, who specialized in searching for people and we managed to get them to help us for a week, paying for of course, but what they managed to find out was the same thing that we had found out”, comments Dora Elena Torres, Don Armando’s sister.
They continue the search
The family made the decision to involve the media and take advantage of social networks to carry out a broader search, sharing photos of Don Armando and contact numbers for possible reports.
Dora Elena recounts that a niece visited the morgue of the Legal Medicine Institute in Managua more than once to identify bodies that apparently resembled Don Armando’s physical characteristics. “He has already gone twice to see if perhaps it was him because they have called that they had a person there without document, more or less with his characteristics; My niece Yadira was the one who, since she was the one who filed the complaint and went to all the hospitals in Managua, then she had to go to recognize the person, because it was not him and we kept insisting ”.
In these three months they have thought of all the possibilities and in all places. Before, they had already visited several hospitals, shelters, police stations, capital markets and bus terminals, but all with the same disappointment of not having any indication of his whereabouts, the family warns in their story.
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On social networks, the family has continued the call for the community to collaborate with any news that allows them to know where Don Armando is or if there was a tragic event with him. “It’s as if the earth had swallowed him, it’s a distressing situation, we don’t know what else to do,” says Dora Elena Torres.
The despair of the family reaches such a point that there is talk of rewarding any person who provides truthful information, useful to locate the whereabouts of Don Armando or to know if there was any mishap. “We would gratify people who give us a logical, fixed, clear, concise clue,” says her sister, referring to any information that allows her to know about Don Armando.
Despite his health problems, Don Armando has been quite a character in the community and over the years he has managed to build many friendships in the towns of the central region of the country. The family asks the people who knew him to join the search for Don Armando, harboring the hope that he is alive.
On the sidewalk of his house, the neighborhood misses the customary plucked strings that Don Armando used to play, delighting those who passed by with his voice. The guitar now hangs on one of the walls of his house, waiting to be taken down, tuned and played with that artistic rigor and skill typical of Don Armando Torres.
For any information they have made available the following telephone numbers: 2549-2541, 8542-4996 either 8840-1045.
