2023-04-23 23:10:41
Mexican-Nicaraguan architect Arnoldo Horacio Guillén Monterrubio, 61, was expelled from Nicaragua by the Ortega regime. The citizen was arrested on April 18 in Corinto, Chinandega, allegedly for distributing blue and white stickers.
Darwing Guillén Monterrubio informed the Mexican newspaper El Universal that his brother was released this Saturday and expelled to Mexico, where he was received by a maternal cousin at the international airport in Mexico City.
According to the outlet, the arrest of Arnoldo Guillén —who has dual nationality: Mexican and Nicaraguan— will be reported to the state National Human Rights Commission of Mexico (CNDH).
The architect was arrested last Tuesday morning, and in the afternoon of that day, police agents invaded the hostel where Guillén was staying in Corinto, and demanded that the owner of the premises “turn off the cameras” because they were going to search the room of the architect. Mexican-Nicaraguan, according to a publication in the newspaper La Prensa.
Witnesses told the Nicaraguan newspaper that, at the time of the raid, Arnoldo Guillen was handcuffed and in police custody. The architect has been an opponent of the regime since 2018, but he kept a low profile to avoid reprisals. He had never been besieged or persecuted by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
However, a source close to the family told La Prensa that, days before the police kidnapping, a plainclothes policeman went to a Guillen family property to ask about Arnoldo Guillén. The man without identifying himself as a policeman showed one of the neighbors a photo of Arnoldo’s ID.
Darwing assured that his brother went to Corinto to inspect a real estate development of a family construction company, according to the Mexican newspaper.
Arnoldo, Darwing and three other brothers are the children of the Nicaraguan couple Darwin Guillén Duarte, who died in 2019, and the Mexican Esperanza Monterrubio Rivera, 85, from the state of Hidalgo and resident in Nicaragua. The five were born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, and the family immigrated to Nicaragua in 1968. Arnoldo is married to a Nicaraguan woman and has a four-year-old daughter.
At least 39 detainees in April
At least 39 Nicaraguans, mostly opponents and Catholic parishionersas well as a journalist, have been detained in Nicaragua by the National Police so far in April, according to a report released this Friday by the so-called Blue and White Monitoring.
“In total we have registered 39 arbitrary arrests with possible political motivations so far in April,” including that of a journalist who covered a procession during Holy Week, indicated Blue and White Monitoring, whose reports are endorsed by the Commission. Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
Of the total number of detainees, “the release of nine people has been confirmed,” while the other 30 are in prison, according to that report.
According to the Blue and White Monitoring, at least 70 incidents related to human rights violations were documented in Nicaragua between April 17 and 19, which coincided with the date on which the Nicaraguan opposition recalls the popular demonstrations that broke out in 2018 against the Government of Daniel Ortega and which left hundreds dead, thousands injured and tens of thousands in exile.
Among those 70 incidents related to human rights violations are “arbitrary detentions”, raids, assaults, threats, harassment, and incidents of territorial control, he said.
*With information from EFE.
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