Ortega’s brother: Former guerrilla Torres dies in prison

Retired General Nicaraguan Army Humberto Ortega, Brother of the President Daniel Ortega, This Friday he criticized the imprisonment suffered by the historic militant Hugo TorresHe also died in police custody last Saturday due to an unspecified “illness” and called for the release of more political prisoners.

Torres, one of the most courageous Sandinista guerrillas in the struggle against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somosa, was mocked by President Ordega’s brother, who said, “When exposed in a brutal prison, he dies at the age (73) and in the same physical condition as anyone else.” An article in the La Prensa newspaper.

Torres, also known as “Commandant Uno”, has been in prison since June 13 last year, accusing his former ally, President Ordega, of being a “traitor to the homeland” along with forty imprisoned opposition leaders. Criminals “and some” sons of bitches of Yankee imperialists “.

He released Ordega from prison and died Ordega prisoner

The former military leader recalled that his brother, Torres, who had been imprisoned since 1967 on charges of robbing a bank in Managua, was released by the Santinista “Urban Commando” on December 27, 1974 and attacked. Home of Jose Maria Castillo Quant, one of Somosa’s ministers.

In 1978, he again risked his life in another attack along with former guerrilla Dora Maria Telles, who was arrested last week and sentenced to eight years in prison, and released 60 political prisoners to other former guerrillas, including Thomas Borge, Doris DeGerino and Rene Nunes. And other Sandinista leaders.

The president’s brother stressed that “the bold move to free political prisoners from the prisons of Somosa tyranny is a severe political-moral blow to the Somosa regime.”

“An important political cadre”

Humberto Ortega He stressed that Torres was “a fitting Sandinista fighter, because of his beliefs and courage in overcoming the daunting challenges of the struggle against the bloodthirsty military dictatorship, the Somosa dynasty and the National Guard.”

“Because he was an outstanding political cadre, he was recognized as a guerrilla commander and joined the party organization of the Sandinista Assembly and the former Sandinista Popular Army (EPS) Military Council, where he was the leader of the military political leadership, military intelligence and a brigadier general.

After the election defeat of Sandinistas, Torres continued to fight in the civilian sector and joined one of the various factions that split the former FSLN in the 1990s, saying, “He sacrificed, imprisoned, once again expressed his revolutionary beliefs, and, like anyone of his age and physical condition, dies when exposed in a brutal prison.” , “Says the president’s brother.

Call for the release of “political prisoners”

Retired General, Torres is credited with protecting Nicaragua’s hero Augusto C. “National Decoration”. He emphasized that the letter was not a signal of a formal antitrust inquiry into the allegations, but rather a signal of a formal antitrust inquiry into the allegations.

“Today, this unfortunate, tragic outcome of the comrade-in-arms who will continue to fulfill this pledge to the end must contribute to the solution of the political crisis that afflicts our country,” he argued.

In his opinion, Nicaragua “urgently needs a reconciliation environment … political prisoners must be released with the necessary legal and legal tools.”