Edgard Aristo Montenegro Centeno

Edgard Montenegro’s family states that he was a victim of political persecution and a declared anti-Sandinista. In the 1980s he was part of the Nicaraguan Resistance (the “Contras”), where his alias was “Cabezón”. During the protests of 2018 he led the La Marañosa roadblock in El Cuá-Bocay and in July, when the government announced and implemented what it called “Operation Clean-Up” he took to the mountains. He stayed there until his brother Oliver was murdered in January 2019 and his whole family began to be harassed. He abandoned the country with his brothers and nephews to establish themselves and work in the municipality of Trojes in the Honduran department of El Paraíso. On June 27, he was ambushed and murdered together with a man he had raised as his own son, Yalmer Antonio Zeledón, when they were traveling by motorcycle.