José Bismarck Martínez
On June 19, 2018, between 4:00 and 4:30 in the afternoon, he was guarding a barricade in the Fátima barrio when he was wounded by gunshots in his back. His friends told his wife, and she went to a house where the wounded were receiving medical care.
He was taken to the Masaya Hospital, where he spent one month, and was later transferred to the Lenín Fonseca Hospital. After one month in intensive care and another month in regular care, he was sent home but was told that he would never move again because the bullet had damaged his brainstem. Despite everything, María Graciela says she “was happy because he could speak and was conscious, although he couldn’t move and had trouble breathing, at times practically suffocating.” Shortly afterwards, he experienced complications and was transferred to the Masaya Hospital, where he died on September 16.
