laments former Sandinista guerrilla Juan Carlos Baquedano
The ex-combatant was released and exiled to Guatemala along with 134 political prisoners after spending over a year in illegal detention.
HAVANA TIMES – “We freed ourselves from (Anastasio) Somoza believing we had the solution, but we ended up falling into something worse,” lamented ex-combatant Juan Carlos Baquedano, one of the 135 former prisoners transferred to Guatemala on September 5.
The political ex-prisoner stated that removing Daniel Ortega from power is the only way to “end the tyranny” currently installed in the country.
Juan Carlos Baquedano, 67, was arrested on August 2, 2023, at his home in Jinotega, Nicaragua, when he returned to the country to sort out personal and property documentation. He had previously exiled himself in Mexico after spending eleven months in prison and being released through an Amnesty Law in mid-2019.
In July 2018, amid protests against Daniel Ortega’s regime, the Public Prosecutor’s Office charged him with “murder, illegal possession of firearms or ammunition, terrorism, obstruction of public services, and simple kidnapping,” sentencing him to 47 years in prison.
“In Nicaragua, many people remain imprisoned and kidnapped by a regime tha