La Nación Editorial: Circumstances of the attempt to assassinate Nicaraguans Joao Maldonado and Nadia Robleto point to political motives.
HAVANA TIMES – All the circumstances of the assassination attempt against Nicaraguan opponent Joao Maldonado and his wife, Nadia Robleto, point to the political motivations of the assassins. Maldonado was persecuted by his country’s government after participating in the April 2018 protests and was forced, like so many others, to flee to Costa Rica.
In 2021, he suffered in Escazú, San Jose, a first attempt on his life. He survived by a miracle and the skill of the doctors who attended him. One of five bullets grazed a heart valve, and two others hit his left arm. One lodged in his stomach and the fifth in the clavicle. He spent more than three weeks in the Intensive Care Unit.
The investigations did not clarify the case, but the viewpoint of the local authorities points to their acceptance of the political nature of the attack. Roy Ruiz, the agent in charge of the investigations, said in February of last year that he had “not been able to find the exact motive for the event,” but, far from identifying any other motive, the police provided Maldonado with protection for several months.
“What is yet to be established by the judicial police is whether or not this attack is directly related to the activities or actions taken by Joao Maldonado in opposition to the Ortega regime since he has been a political exile since 2018,” added Ruiz on that occasion, noting it was the most likely hypothesis.
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