Nicaragua: Evidence Reveals Malicious Intent to Destroy the Country and its Institutions

Tortilla Con Sal

Interview with Vice Minister of Governance Luis Cañas Novoa

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Tortilla con Sal: How do you classify the accusations of abuse and torture against the National Police?

Vice Minister Luis Cañas: I consider it to be a disgrace. Lies created to destroy, to attack an institution that has not just national but international recognition. I say this because, before I was Vice Minister, I was in the National Police for 25 years and I know very well how that institution operates. I am proud that I spent my youth there and to have worked for the Nicaraguan People in this institution.

And when you receive a prisoner that arrives in these conditions, for example this prisoner Medardo Mairena who was supposedly tortured, in deplorable health, who couldn’t move, who couldn’t walk, there you put an end to all types of lies and hoaxes like what people were saying in the Medardo Mairena and Pedro Mena cases.

They even brought this case to Geneva to denounce.

See also the photographic evidence here on:

• False allegations of abuse of women prisoners accused of terrorism
• False accusations of ill treatment of male priosners accused of terrorism

And here are these photos that may be the principal proof as to who the liars are, as to the malicious intent to destroy our institutions and Government of Reconciliation and National Unity. Here is one showing these same prisoners when they are arrived to the Penitentiary System and they are doing a medical exam on Medardo Mairena and Pedro Mena.

Here we have Edwin Carcache who was supposedly isolated, tortured, who didn’t receive visits. There he is receiving visits from his wife, his father, his mother and his grandfather. And here we have the same Edwin Carcache, who has had protests on his behalf, who has had his case taken to international forums saying his was being tortured and isolated. After the visit of the family, there he is receiving a packet of basic products, food products, basic necessities. Any citizen can see with their own eyes his physical state.
Here are other prisoners receiving visits. Look at the quantity of products that are on the side table. They are food products that they can receive. These are the people that are supposedly being isolated, tortured, in subhuman conditions according to some organisms that are attacking our government. The coup’s intentions fall to the ground just by showing these images. There it is. You can see the type of clothing, the buildings, the beds, mattresses, physical appearance.

This person who is wearing a yellow shirt was until a few days again leading protests saying that his daughter was being held alone, that she was being denied visits and there he is inside the womens’ prison building visiting her along with her family and bringing her basic goods. His name is Carlos Valle Guerrero, a longtime political activist. Here the person who says that he can’t see his daughter reappears in the photo.

TcS: What has been the attitude and behavior of international organizations like the IACHR and UN High Commission?

Vice Minister Luis Cañas: I received the IACHR and the UN High Commission in the Tipitapa prison to order to answer a series of questions. I also turned in documentation. They had little interest in knowing what happened in the prison. They had very clearly defined objectives and we have not seen in any of their reports the elements, evidence, or accounts that we gave them. The positions they have taken in relation to their visits to the National Penitentiary System are completely biased.

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