{"id":21142,"date":"2022-02-13T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=21142"},"modified":"2022-02-13T08:05:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:05:54","slug":"hugo-torres-nicaraguan-ex-rebel-leader-dies-after-being-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/02\/13\/hugo-torres-nicaraguan-ex-rebel-leader-dies-after-being-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Torres: Nicaraguan ex-rebel leader dies after being jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Nicaraguan rebel leader Hugo Torres has died in prison aged 73, eight months after being detained on treason charges.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The retired army general fought alongside current President Daniel Ortega during the country’s revolution, helping free him from jail in 1974.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But he later accused Mr Ortega of becoming a dictator and founded an opposition party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was one of\u00a0the opposition figures arrested ahead of last year’s election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Torres had been transferred to a hospital after his health deteriorated and died there of an undisclosed illness, the government said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Torres’ children expressed their “deep pain over the death of our beloved father”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Torres was seen as one of the heroes of the Sandinista Revolution against the brutal dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in the 1970s.<\/div>\n
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He took part in a risky operation to free Mr Ortega, who was being held by Somoza’s regime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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