Nicaraguan Professor Warns of Spy Operation in Costa Rica
Adrian Meza was the head of the Universidad Paulo Freire of Nicaragua
Professor Adrian Meza accuses the Nicaraguan Army of attempting to locate his home in San Jose, where he has been in exile since February 2022 for security reasons.
HAVANA TIMES – Adrián Meza Soza, a Nicaraguan university professor exiled in Costa Rica, reported an intelligence operation against him, which he attributed to the Nicaraguan Army, on Saturday, October 4, 2025.
Meza Soza denounced an attempt to locate the house where he resides in San Jose, where he went into exile for security reasons in February 2022, following the illegal closure of the private university he directed.
He explained this in an open letter addressed to the directors of the Army’s intelligence agencies and to the Nicaraguan government led by the “co-presidents,” Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
“This morning (Saturday), at the place where I live in exile in San Jose, the security guards contacted me to inform me that an unknown person requested entry to the residential complex to ‘deliver my vehicle after repair,’ providing my name and house number,” recounted Adrian Meza, who was dean of the Paulo Freire University, which was shut down by the National Assembly at the request of the Sandinista government.
“The guards did not allow the intruder to enter, and when they realized I had been informed of the unusual visit, he disappeared without a trace,” added the lawyer by profession.
“For those of us with experience in military and operational intelligence, this appears to be a classic operation of ‘target verification and location,’” he explained.
Adrián Meza said he takes “this incident” seriously because there have been “seven cross-border political assassinations,” for which opposition figures have blamed the Nicaraguan Army and government.
One of these killings was that of dissident Roberto Samcam, a retired major of the Nicaraguan Army, who was shot dead on June 19, 2025, at his residence in San Jose, where he had been in refuge since 2018.
Adrian Meza “Invites” Ortega and Murillo to Reflect
The professor clarified that he is not seeking “attention or gratuitous victimization with this incident, given the distress, anxiety, and anguish it normally causes family members and loved ones when they sense we are at risk,” but under the circumstances he felt free to make it public and pose questions to Ortega, Murillo, and the Army.
“Do you really believe that political assassination, as a practice attributed to and recognized in the regime you represent and lead, has brought you more benefits than negative consequences?” Meza asked.
He also urged the “co-presidents” to listen to “the voices that, from within your own military command structures and civil government, have been pointing out the practical futility of transnational political assassination when it fails to spread fear among the exile community, and does not prevent the voices you silence from being replaced by new voices that rise with renewed indignation and thirst for justice.”
“What practical sense is there in continuing the killing of opposition leaders outside Nicaragua if it only deepens the isolation of your regime and places those who still dare to defend you in lobbying and international diplomacy circles in an embarrassing and untenable position?” Meza asked.
He further said he did not expect “a brilliant reflection on these questions, but even the most closed and bloodthirsty dictatorships often retain a shred of common sense when they aim to perpetuate themselves and become a dynasty lasting over time.”
Nicaraguan human rights defenders in exile, such as the Colectivo de Derechos Humanos Nicaragua Nunca Mas and the Fundacion Sin Limites, have stated that “transnational persecution exists” and that their organizations have documented complaints in this regard.
Nicaraguan organizations have asked Costa Rica to clarify the murder of Roberto Samcam and the attacks against activist Joao Maldonado, which exiled opposition figures in that country attribute to the Ortega-Murillo government.