US EditionOrtega’s Mass Prisoner Releases Turn Nicaragua’s Jails Into Political Tools
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Ortega’s Mass Prisoner Releases Turn Nicaragua’s Jails Into Political Tools
In Nicaragua, tens of thousands of prisoners have not just walked out of jail; they have walked into a political script. Over the last decade, the Ortega–Murillo government has freed more than 53,000 common prisoners under a programme called “family cohabitation”, which lets inmates serve the rest of their sentences at home. In 2025 alone, […]
Three months and eleven days after being pardoned by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, José Francisco Salgado arrived at the home of his aunt Maria Torrez Salgado, an 81-year-old woman, to assassinate her. It was on Saturday, January 27, 2024, at six in the morning, when the convicted person who benefited from the “family coexistence” regime suffocated the victim until she was unconscious... To perpetrate the crime he tied a rope …
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