“I think the last thing I imagined living in my life at the age of 23 is being thrown out of my own country and that it no longer exists legally,” protested Samantha Jirón, the youngest of the group of 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners exiled to the United States. Joined. This young feminist and university activist already experienced a sinister episode during the 2021 electoral fraud, when she returned to her country from exile in Costa Rica and was arrested during the raids prior to the opening of the polls. She in the neighboring country she had worked in the foundation of the Nobel Peace Prize Óscar Arias.
According to local media, there are close to 40 exiles who have accepted the proposal of the Spanish Government, which will grant them nationality by naturalization letter. Jirón clarified that it is not necessary to live in Spain to benefit from the solidarity measure launched by the Madrid government.
A native of Masaya, Jirón participated from day one in the popular rebellion of 2018, for which he was forced to go into exile in 2020. His subsequent return and arrest caused him to be tried and sentenced for the same crimes as his companions: treason against the homeland and undermining the national integrity.
Jirón experienced the banishment process as one more torture. “We did not expect what happened, it really is a total violation of our human rights. But despite everything, the good thing is that we are free,” he confessed to Radio Darío.
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