The Brazilian clings to the hopes of finding the “real culprit” in the death of her daughter, now that Lula da Silva has taken a critical stance in relation to Ortega.
Brazilian student Raynéia Rocha and her mother, Maria José Da Costa. Photo: Globe.
Maria Jose Da Costamother of Raynéia Gabrielle Da Costa Lima Rocha, the young medical student murdered in Nicaragua on July 23, 2018, seeks to meet with the President of Brazil, Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, to ask him for justice.
From the coast told the Brazilian media outlet Globo that the coming to power of President Lula opens “a small light of hope at the end of the tunnel” to clarify the murder of his daughter and find justice, after previous governments of his country have told him ” turned its back on the only Brazilian victim of the repression carried out by the government of Daniel Ortega”.
The mother clings to the hope of finding the “true culprit” for her daughter’s death, now that Lula da Silva has taken a critical stance on the human rights violations committed by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua and left as a consequence victims of other nations such as the case of Raynéia Da Costa Lima.
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“At the time of the murder, the government of (Michele) Temer turned its back on us, we were only able to repatriate my daughter’s body thanks to the support of the former governor of Pernambuco, where we are from, Paulo Câmara (PSDB-PE). Since then nobody has helped us and I want Lula to help me,” he said. Maria Jose.
“Government of Nicaragua must take responsibility”
From the coast he clings to wanting to know “who was the real culprit” of his daughter’s murder “so they can arrest him.”
“The Nicaraguan government must take responsibility for the murder of my daughter, because I am sure that the confessed murderer is covering up a soldier who works for the State,” she says.
The case of the young Brazilian has practically gone unpunished in Nicaragua, since who had been accused of her death. the Sandinista paramilitary, Pierson Gutiérrez, enjoys complete freedom and even works for the State, as recently revealed by an investigation by Nicaragua Investigates.
On behalf of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the case is still being investigated, as is the case of the more than 350 people who were reportedly killed by the oppressive arms of the Ortega-Murillo regime between April 2018 and July 2019.
Meanwhile, Raynéia’s mother has “hope with Lula, talk to all the countries and I hope he talks to Ortega to solve my daughter’s case.”
