José Bismarck Martínez
48 Years Old - Shoemaker
José Bismarck Martínez
“He didn’t want his children living under a repressive regime”
Wounded in Masaya on June 19. Died on September 16.
María Graciela Pérez Ruiz affirms that her husband, José Bismarck Martínez, was a responsible father, concerned about his children, who tried to provide them with all they needed. He was a shoemaker and was always working. People liked his work and he was very popular. They called him “Shinola.” He loved soccer and had his team at the Salesiano School. He was also a huge Real Madrid fan.
When the protest began, José Bismarck Martínez went to the barricades. His only weapon was a homemade mortar launcher. His wife, María Graciela Pérez Ruiz, recounts that she asked him not to go, telling him to stay home, but he insisted. “He said that what they were doing to the university students was not just, that one day his children would go to the university and he didn’t want them to go through the same thing.”
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