Faber Antonio López Vivas
Fátima Vivas, Faber’s mother, blames the police for her son’s murder. “My son was tortured, according to the coroner consulted. He had wounds from a knife, his fingers were broken, his fingernails had been pulled out, and his eyeballs had been removed. He had innumerable wounds in his arms.” The motive for the crime, according to Vivas, was because her son had requested his discharge from the police ranks, but apparently they did not accept his request. Another police officer told me that her son had thought about deserting with her, but he wasn’t successful.
According to the National Police, officer Faber Antonio López Vivas died on July 8, 2018, due to gunshots by “armed terrorists.” According to a Nicaraguan government report, this day the Anti-Riot Elite Unit, of which Faber was a member, arrived in Jinotepe to jointly take down a large number of roadblocks erected by the opposition in different municipalities of Carazo, together with local police. The unit was attacked by a sharpshooter, and Faber was hit by nine bullets.
Faber López had called his family one day earlier, saying he was going to resign from the police. When he didn’t contact them the next day, it was because he had been murdered by the police. Faber López never called them again.