It’s useless: tyrannies can never erase the example of courage and resistance of fighters for freedom and democracy who die in their prisons.
By Carlos F. Chamorro (Confidencial)
HAVANA TIMES – The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 47, in a maximum-security prison in the Arctic Circle of Russia, under the custody of dictator Vladimir Putin, has caused shock and condemnation worldwide.
Many consider it a death foretold, because in 2020 Navalny survived a serious assassination attempt by poisoning carried out by Russian security forces. After recovering his health in Germany, he decided to return to his country to challenge the Putin regime, denouncing corruption and demanding democracy. Navalny was detained at the airport in January 2021 and sentenced to 19 years in prison for the alleged crime of “extremism.”
In Nicaragua, Navalny’s death caused by Putin’s torture prison system has revived the pain and indignation caused by the murders of political prisoners Eddy Montes in La Modelo prison in 2019, and retired General Hugo Torres in 2022, a prisoner in El Chipote prison. Like Alexei Navalny, they were prisoners of conscience who, in a civic manner, decided to challenge the Ortega Murillo dictatorship and were murdered by the regime, as has also happened before with other political prisoners in Cuba and Venezuela.
Like Putin in Russia, Ortega in Nicaragua treats those who demand democracy and justice with perversity, sadism, and cynicism, and with a total indifference to human life. Therefore, the hundreds of murders in 2018, the thousands of arbitrary detentions, and the cruelty against political prisoners and their families, remain in impunity.
In reality, Ortega and Murillo have no political project or ideology on which their repressive regime is based, there is no such anti-imperialist revolution inspired by the ideals of S