Key Nicaraguan Indigenous leader dies in government custody
by editors@theworld.org (Joyce Hackel) from The World: Latest Stories on (#7613R)
For the past three years, Nicaraguan authorities have held Brooklyn Rivera, the country's most prominent Indigenous leader, incommunicado. Then last week, the government released photos showing Rivera in a hospital bed, intubated and emaciated. Yesterday, Nicaraguan officials announced Rivera's death. Former Nicaraguan diplomat Arturo McFields Yescas blames Nicaraguan authorities for Rivera's death. McFields tells The World's Host Marco Werman that Rivera was like a legend" in the Caribbean.