We’re on standby still waiting to receive an official copy of the lawsuit, which we were assured would arrive ten days ago. We keep being told by the lawyer that for whatever reasons, the court is not proceeding with this in a timely fashion and we assume that’s because Yelba Carvajal’s lawyer is not pushing it. We don’t know what that means, so we’re just waiting.
Your efforts to help our case come to the attention of the Nicaraguan government have had concrete results – thank you again! Today we received a copy of a letter that the Attorney General of Nicaragua, Dr. Hernán Estrada, sent to the US Ambassador in Nicaragua, Paul Trivelli, in response to Trivelli’s letter to Estrada in relation to the case. In his letter, Dr. Estrada writes that the Attorney General’s office “will act in favor of Mr. Woodard [Mike, our legal representative], as we have knowledge of the recurring irregular activities of this Mrs. Carvajal Jirón in various transactions related to properties, in which she tends to speculate with Titles from the Agrarian Reform, divesting the beneficiaries of their rights by using various operative and legal influences.” Dr. Estrada went on to stress that our case is an “emblematic” case, as our organization “came to support our government in the most difficult years during the eighties, and I have confirmed to [Mike] that we will be part of the judicial litigation contributing in favor of the Foundation Jubilee House Community, because it deals with one of the methods used by unscrupulous subjects such as this woman.” This letter is important as it documents the Attorney General’s explicit intention to help our case.
