They claim that Nicaragua freed more than 200 opponents and sent them to the United States.

Citing State Department sources, former Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS, Arturo McFields, said that on a plane that left Managua in the morning “222 political prisoners are traveling” bound for Washington.

The government of President Daniel Ortega released more than 200 imprisoned opponents and sent them on a plane to the United States on Thursday, former Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS, Arturo McFields, and family members of the protesters reported. detained.

Citing State Department sources, McFields said that on a plane that left Managua in the morning “222 political prisoners are traveling” bound for Washington. “Those who wanted to come came, among them priests,” he added.

Neither government immediately confirmed the releases.

McFields did not say how many or who would continue to be detained in Nicaragua. According to figures from the Nicaraguan opposition, the number of “political prisoners” stood at 245 people until this week.

For her part, journalist Berta Valle, wife of former opposition presidential candidate Felix Maradiaga, said the State Department had confirmed the news to her and that her husband was among the freed prisoners traveling to the ‘plane.

Source: Latercera

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