Quezada expressed criticism of the Ortega regime on social networks hours before being kidnapped. His whereabouts are unknown.
HAVANA TIMES – The Nicaraguan philosopher, sociologist and professor Freddy Quezada, highly critical of Daniel Ortega’s regime, was arrested in Managua by the National Police, student groups denounced.
Quezada, 65, and trainer of generations of Nicaraguan journalists and sociologists, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon at his home, south of Managua, denounced the Bridges Initiative for Nicaraguan Students in a press release.
Quezada was fired from the state-run National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in 2018 for showing solidarity with students who demonstrated against the Ortega regime over controversial social security reforms and criticizing the use of force by the State. He has been a sharp critic of the dictatorship on his social networks, where he signs himself as “Uliteo.”
In one of his latest publications on his social network account he criticized the show put on by the dictatorship to exhibit in photos and a video of the imprisoned bishop Rolando Alvarez, sentenced last February to more than 26 years in prison.
The bishop was exhibited inside the La Modelo prison, a maximum-security prison, where, according to the regime, he is receiving “preferential” confinement conditions.
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