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farmers suspected of having collaborated with the
counter-revolutionaries were executed by DGSE personnel in the
Cua, Pantasma, Waslala and Rio Blanco areas. Many family
members of the farmers who had disappeared denounced the
government to the non-governmental Permanent Commission on
Human Rights (CPDH) and to the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States
which published lists of the names of the people who were
missing from the region.
Residents of the two departments continued to complain and
manifest their discontent with the government. This, combined
with pressure from the CPDH and the IACHR, caused Borge to
order an investigation by Baldizon's office. The investigators
reported in June 1984 that more than 300 farmers had been
executed and that in 80 percent of the cases the execution was
proposed by Sub-Comandante Javier Lopez Lowerli, the MINT
Delegate in Region VI, who asked for and received permission to
apply "special measures" from Vice Minister Luis Carrion. The
investigators also found that Comandante Guerrillero Alonzo
Porras, the Political Chief of the FSLN in the Region; Javier
Carrion, the EPS Commander in Matagalpa; and Wilfredo Barreto,
the government delegate in Region VI, were also involved in the
executions.
Borge ordered the creation of a special prosecutor's
office for Region VI to take legal action to satisfy the
complaints. The office, however, only brought charges against
EPS Second Lieutenant Rodriguez and three DGSE officers. The
three regional chiefs principally responsible for the
executions--Lopez, Porras, and Barreto--were merely transferred
to other regions. The four charged officers were freed shortly
thereafter, and Rodriguez, even though he received a prison
sentence, was sent to study in Bulgaria. The Nicaraguan
government continued to take action to maintain control over
the region and forced hundreds of rural families to abandon
their homes, cattle and cultivated lands in the mountains of
Jinotega and move to designated resettlement areas. Although
the people in the affected area knew about the assassinations,
the killings did not become public knowledge in the rest of
Nicaragua because the government censored any publications that
might have reported on the slaughter.
--
On July 19, 1983, DGSE officers Guillermo Lugo Marenco and
Moises Rivera and First Lieutenant Victor Romero, Chief of the
Regional Special Troops in the area, met in a bar on the
outskirts of San Miguelito, Rio San Juan, and planned the
capture of Guillermo Lorio and his wife, Jamilett Sequeira.
The three officers had received information that Lorio and
Sequeira were the principal authors of "counter-revolutionary"
campaigns in San Miguelito because they were the coordinators
of a religious movement called "Delegates of the Word."
Baldizon received orders on July 25 to investigate the
deaths of Lorio, Sequeira, and Juan Luz. Their hastily buried
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