The former Nicaraguan political prisoners exiled to the United States have not lost faith in returning to their homeland or working from exile to force the departure of the “Daniel Ortega regime”, as they told the Efe news agency on Monday. some of those who have begun to arrive in Miami from Washington.
On Monday at noon, a dozen Nicaraguans who were part of the group of 222 political prisoners who were released last Thursday in Nicaragua and exiled to the United States arrived in that city in South Florida.
The flow began on Saturday with the arrival of the first who have decided to settle in Miami and others are expected this week, such as former presidential candidate Félix Maradiaga.
Some of those who arrived this Monday said they fear reprisals that their relatives may suffer in the Central American country and feel uncertain about the forced exile to which they have been sentenced, but without forgetting for this reason commitment to the Nicaraguan political opposition.
“Here we are now in exile but always with a swollen heart, inflamed with patriotic pride, with love for Nicaragua. No dictator can take away our love for our roots,” said student leader Yubrank Suazo, from the city of Masaya, who was a member of the April 19 opposition movement.
The young man was detained in isolation.“in completely inhumane conditions,” as he recounted, in the La Modelo Penitentiary System, on the outskirts of Managua, since May of last year.
Second imprisonment of the young opponent
He was serving a ten-year prison sentence. in a cell measuring two by three meters from which he could not leave all day, without the slightest hygiene and monitored 24 hours a day by a camera.
A window would open three times to deliver his three daily meals, he recalls.
“It was a very bad diet”, he affirms without hesitation about an imprisonment during which he said he had been a victim of “psychological torture”.
That was his second stay in prison after having been detained in 2018 and 2019.
Suazo explained that the day he was taken from his cell to be taken into exile, he had moments of anguish because until shortly before boarding the plane that took them to Washington I didn’t know what was happening.
“Leaving everything is an extremely painful process, it is a duel that I think I am beginning to process because exile was never an option for me, I considered that my fight was with my people there in Nicaragua,” Suazo said with a broken voice.
The young man, who expressed his deep gratitude to the governments of the United States and Spain for offering them welcome, stated that he chose to settle in Miami since this city is home to one of the largest communities of Nicaraguans originating from Mayasa abroad.
Political prisoners arrive in Miami
They have begun to arrive at the Miami airport some of the 222 Nicaraguan political prisonersmany of whom have been welcomed into the restaurant the guacalitaa meeting point for the community of this Central American country and where its owners have been in charge of providing them with accommodation and food during their first days, according to Efe.
Many of those who have arrived to settle in South Florida do so because they have relatives and relatives in this part of the US, and they come from rural and humble areas, where they opposed the Ortega government.
“It is impossible to leave this fight incomplete. The challenges are many, the opposition itself has great challenges and commitments to the Nicaraguan people, especially working together in an action that forces the departure of the regime of (President) Daniel Ortega,” Suazo asserted.
“We do not lose faith nor are we going to lose it, nor will we lose faith in returning to our homeland,” he deepened.
