The Global Liberty Alliance is a non-government organization based in Alexandria, Virginia. Its mission is to strengthen the rule of law, empower human rights defenders, and advance the cause of justice. In the podcast, we talk with Mr. Roberto Bendaña an American businessman of Nicaraguan ancestry who paid a very high price for standing up to the Ortega-Murillo regime because of his political work in Nicaragua in a group he helped started called Hagamos Democracia (Growing Democracy).
Mr. Bendaña was falsely accused by Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime of various crimes because he dared to call for free and transparent elections in Nicaragua including a clean up of the voter rolls in that country. Warned of the impending politically motivated show trial against him, Mr. Bendaña with the help of friends, and what is left of the free press, as well as honest members of the police who sympathized with his situation, fled Nicaragua and arrived in the United States in December 2013.
On or about January 2, 2014, Nicaragua abused the INTERPOL mechanisms by requesting a Red Notice based on false charges and forced Roberto and his family to flee Nicaragua. Many regimes abuse INTERPOL including Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Russia. An INTERPOL Red Notice alerts law enforcement agencies around the world of an outstanding arrest warrant. You can read more about it here.
Roberto remains active in the family coffee business and currently resides in College Station, Texas where he also teaches Spanish. He has remained active in the freedom cause for Nicaragua. For one-page background and other summaries of the of nations discussed in this episode, follow the links:
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