We are still waiting to be served with the official papers of the lawsuit that Yelba Carvajal is bringing against us. Today we received word that the first civil suit that we filed against her (basically a “cease and desist”) was thrown out because the lawyer who filed it failed to attach Mike’s power of attorney to those papers. The good news about this is that we aren’t working with that lawyer anymore!
We were contacted today by an attorney that we know nothing about claiming that he is working with the former Cooperativa Gabriel Cardenal No. 2 that sold us the land, and he told us that he’s going to charge Mike with fraud if we don’t back off on this case.
Friday we received a visit from a lawyer who represents a client who lost land to Yelba Carvajal in another case. This lawyer says he has information that might help us in our case and we are planning to meet with him.
One of the brigadistas from the original Bucknell Brigade in 1999 works for a title company and through her connections has contacted a law firm in Nicaragua that works with title insurance and has agreed to work on our case pro bono. We are arranging a meeting with them to see what advice they can give us.
Meanwhile, we’re asking for anyone who has media contacts here in Nicaragua (particularly television) to contact us at jhc@jhc-cdca.org. We are trying to make the case as public as possible in an attempt to keep it from being corrupted. The Genesis spinning plant members in particular would like to talk to the media about how this land case is affecting their lives as they are preparing to put up their building on the contested land.
