AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two years after the attack against the elderly, the case has not yet been solved

Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Two years ago members of the Sandinista Youth attacked a group of young people who were accompanying the elderly who were protesting outside the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security to ask for their pension (see Fides 26/06/2013). On that occasion, the group who were attacked had complained that the country's authorities had not shown any interest in the matter.
Much later, the prosecutor and the national police, however, recognized the existence of a crime.
In May 2015 the state passed the new law on pensions and recognized the rights of about 35,000 people to have a minimum pension, but the case of the attack on the occasion of that protest has never been solved.
The Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, His Exc. Mgr. Silvio Jose Baez, spoke yesterday about the issue and said that it is "an open wound". Then he recalled that on the morning of the assault, the Archbishop of Managua, today Cardinal, Leopoldo Brenes, and Mgr. Baez, were present at Hugo Chavez square, dominated by the group of supporters of Daniel Ortega. During the meeting, the two Bishops had asked in vain the young Sandinistas not to attack the young or the elderly who were protesting. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 22/06/2015)