“Mike” Healy was the last president of Cosep, which was closed and confiscated. He suffered a heart attack in Panama, where he was about to start a job.
HAVANA TIMES – Nicaraguan businessman and former political prisoner Michael Healy died this January 25, 2024, in Panama City, where he was going to start a new job, family and friends confirmed to Confidencial. Healy was the last president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), which was cancelled and confiscated. Healy was imprisoned on October 21, 2021, and banished to the United States on February 9, 2023, by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Healy was elected as president of Cosep in September 2020 and, a year later, was imprisoned by the dictatorship along with his vice president, cattle producer, Álvaro Vargas. In May 2022, Healy was convicted of crimes fabricated by the dictatorship and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. The conviction was another aggression against the agricultural businessman from whom the regime confiscated several properties.
Healy’s family was distressed to see how much weight he had lost in prison, although they were comforted to find him in good spirits. For some months, he shared a cell with Jose Adan Aguerri, his predecessor at the head of Cosep, after the then-imprisoned politician Pedro Joaquín Chamorro was
