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A retired Nicaraguan subject serviceman turned outspoken professional of President Daniel Ortega has been changeable to decease astatine his location successful Costa Rica
ByJAVIER CÓRDOBA Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- A retired Nicaraguan subject serviceman turned outspoken professional of President Daniel Ortega was changeable to decease Thursday astatine his location successful Costa Rica, authorities said.
Roberto Samcam, 67, had been surviving successful exile since July 2018 erstwhile paramilitaries assaulted his location successful Nicaragua.
Police accidental a antheral entered the condominium analyzable wherever Samcam lived northeast of the Costa Rican superior of San Jose and went straight to the retired major’s location astir 7:30 a.m.
Without saying a word, the antheral changeable Samcam aggregate times with a 9mm pistol, according to Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Organization. The shooter escaped.
Word of Samcam’s sidesplitting dispersed rapidly among the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans who person sought refuge successful Costa Rica since Ortega cracked down connected wide protests successful 2018.
In 2020, Samcam served arsenic chain-of-command expert for the Court of Conscience, organized by Costa Rica’s Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, to cod grounds of those who suffered torture and different abuses astatine the hands of the government.
The workout was successful portion to physique cases to yet instrumentality to determination and planetary quality rights bodies.
“We are documenting each lawsuit truthful that it tin determination connected to a trial, perchance earlier the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,” Samcam said astatine the time. He said authorities officials were progressive successful the abuses.
In 2022, Samcam published a publication titled ‘Ortega: El calvario de Nicaragua’ astir ‘Ortega: Nicaragua’s torment.’ Last year, helium published different substance describing successful item however helium watched Ortega physique a dictatorship.
In January 2024, different Nicaraguan exile, Joao Maldonado, was changeable 7 times successful the thoroughfare extracurricular Costa Rica’s capital. He survived and accused a compartment of Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front of work for the attack.
Ortega and his woman and Co-president Rosario Murillo person driven hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans into exile and imprisoned past stripped hundreds much of their citizenship.
Murillo who is besides the Nicaraguan government's spokesperson did not instantly respond to an emailed petition for remark astir Samcam's killing.
Since crushing the 2018 protests, the authorities has systematically pursued immoderate dependable of opposition. The authorities has shuttered hundreds of nongovernmental organizations and persecuted spiritual groups, including the Catholic church.
Yader Valdivia of the quality rights enactment Nicaragua Nunca Más said that Samcam had been 1 of the exiled Nicaraguans stripped of his citizenship by the government.
Valdivia said determination was fearfulness of the government’s “long arm” among the Nicaraguan exile assemblage successful Costa Rica that makes it susceptible of reaching critics extracurricular its borders.
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