According to Maradiaga, this latest court decision adds “to the list of humiliations that the dictatorship has committed against this group of Nicaraguans, who have also suffered imprisonment, torture, public defamation campaigns, family separation, and the violation of their constitutional rights.”
He also warned that “this theft irreparably harms the entire Nicaraguan legal establishment in matters of private property.”
“With the [President Daniel] Ortega-[Vice President Rosario] Murillo family in power, no one in Nicaragua is safe. There is no Nicaraguan who can feel that his life, liberty, personal property, personal safety, or even his right to his own religion are protected. That dictatorship is a beast with no limits that devours everything,” he criticized.
Maradiaga, who is also president of Fundación Libertad (Freedom Foundation), noted that some of the deportees, including himself, already had money in their bank accounts confiscated in 2018.
“This outrage over this new theft of private property is the third confiscation my family has experienced firsthand,” he said.
Regarding the profile of the 222 people affected, he pointed out that “the vast majority are workers, young people, field workers, and only a small group are businessmen.”