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The Released Nicaraguan Political Prisoners Speak

They arrived in the USA stateless, with a mixture of joy for having come out of hell, & sadness for having been expelled from their homeland.

After being exiled on February 9, Maria Esperanza Sanchez said the torture and all the suffering “for my country has been worth it.”

“The 222 people expelled from Nicaragua join tens of thousands of others who have been forced into exile from the country.

The pontiff said that he prays for “all those who suffer in that beloved nation” and reiterated his call for dialogue.

The released Nicaraguans were technically deported; that is, banished. They were stripped of their nationality and all their civil rights…

The release of the Nicaraguan political prisoners is a highly relevant turn of events in favor of the region’s human rights.

“Prison changes you. But we are still committed to bring about change,” Felix Maradiaga and Juan Sebastian Chamorro stated.

They will be able to recover their dignified condition as Nicaraguan citizens and their corresponding rights when democracy returns.

Among the political prisoners still held by the Ortega Murillo regime is Monsignor Rolando Alvarez, sentenced Friday to 26 years in jail.

In an express political trial on February 10th, a court serving the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, condemned the bishop for fabricated crimes.