We stand with the family of Brooklyn Rivera in their grief and in their search for justice.
The Miskitu leader and national president of the indigenous political party YATAMA, Brooklyn Rivera Bryan, passed away on May 30, 2026, at 8:30 p.m. at the age of 73, after more than 970 days of illegal imprisonment, according to sources at the Fernando Vélez Paiz Hospital, where he had been hospitalized under the custody of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The dictatorship concealed the death of the indigenous leader for more than fifteen hours. It was not until midday on May 31, 2026, that the regime acknowledged what had happened, without mentioning that he was a political prisoner and that it had kept him in enforced disappearance for nearly three years.
The Miskitu leader and national president of the indigenous political party YATAMA, Brooklyn Rivera Bryan, passed away on May 30, 2026, at 8:30 p.m. at the age of 73, after more than 970 days of illegal imprisonment, according to sources at the Fernando Vélez Paiz Hospital, where he had been hospitalized under the custody of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The dictatorship concealed the death of the indigenous leader for more than fifteen hours. It was not until midday on May 31, 2026, that the regime acknowledged what had happened, without mentioning that he was a political prisoner and that it had kept him in enforced disappearance for nearly three years.