A prominent shot in Nicaragua shot in exile in Costa Rica Crime news

A retired military officer was killed in Nicaragua, who later became a critic of President Daniel Ortega in a shooting in his buildings in Costa Rica, where he lives in exile.

On Thursday, the death of Roberto Samkam, 67, agreed to worry about the safety of defectors in Nicaragua, even when they live abroad.

Police in Costa Rica confirmed that the suspect entered the Samkam Building Building in the capital of San Jose at about 7:30 am local time (13:30 GMT) and shot the retired specialization at least eight times.

Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Organization has identified the 9mm murder weapon. Samcm’s wife, Claudia Vargas, told Reuters news agency that the suspect pretended to be a delivery driver to reach her husband.

It is claimed that the suspect shot Samkam and then left without saying a word, escaping on a motorcycle. It is still generally.

Samkam went to exile after his participation in the 2018 protests, which started as demonstrations against social security reforms and escalated to one of the largest imprisonment movements in the history of Nicaragua.

Thousands of people were immersed in the streets of Nicaragua. Some have even called for the resignation of President Ortega.

But while Ortega eventually canceled social security reforms, he also answered the protests of the police suppression, and the clashes were killed by an estimated 355 people, according to the ICHR committee.

More than 2000 people were injured, and 2000 others got what Iachr described as “arbitrary detention”.

In the months and years after the protests, Ortega continued to search for the punishment for demonstrators and institutions participating in the demonstrations, which likened to the “coup”.

Samkam was among the critics we condemned the use of Ortega for military weapons and paramilitary forces to abandon the protests. Ortega denied either repression.

In an interview with 2019 with the publication of the publication, Ortega compared Anastasio Somoza Debayl, the last member of what is known as the Sumoza family dictatorship, who has ruled Nicaragua nearly 43 years ago.

In 2022, Samcam published a book called Ortega: El Calvario de Nicaragua, which is almost translated into: Ortega: Torment’s Nicaragua.

Ortega has always been accused of human rights violations and authoritarian trends. In 2023, for example, he is I stripped hundreds of dissidents Of their nationality, leaving them effectively, and seized their property.

It has also been paid for Constitutional reforms To increase his strength and wife, former Vice President Rosario Morillo. She is now leading with Ortega as a co -chairman.

The changes also increase from the period of Ortega in his position and give him the authority to coordinate all “legislative, judicial, electoral, control and supervisory bodies” – which puts all government agencies under his authority.

From the outside, Samkam was helping to lead an effort to document some alleged Ortega violations.

In 2020, he became an expert in the pioneer chain in the Conscience Court, a group established by the Arias for peace and human progress, a non -profit organization founded by Nobel Prize -winning Costa Rica, Oscar Arias.

As part of the group, Samcam requested a certificate of torture and violations committed during the era of Ortega, with the aim of building a legal issue against the President and officials of Nicaraguan.

“We are documenting every case so that he can move to a trial, perhaps before the Human Rights Court between America,” Samcam said at that time.

Samkam is not the only dissident in Nicaragua, who faces a clear assassination attempt while she is in exile.

Joao Maldonado, the 2018 protest leader, survived two such attempts while living in the capital of Costa Rica. The latest, in January 2024, left him and his partner seriously injured.

Maldonado blamed the National Liberation Front in Nicaragua – led by Ortega – to attack.