Former political prisoner and last president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP), Michael Healy died this Thursday, January 25, of a heart attack in Panama. LA PRENSA learned that he was in the country on his first work trip as the Latin American representative of an agrochemical company that had just hired him. After the deportation of 222 political prisoners in February 2023, Healy, 61, was to celebrate one year since leaving prison under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega.
In September 2020, at the height of the sociopolitical crisis, businessmen elected Healy to serve as president of COSEP for three years. However, the regime changed its management in October 2021 when police officers apprehended him after skipping an appointment at the prosecutor’s office. In April 2021, he was tried and convicted in a secret trial held at the facilities of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), where he was detained along with other businessmen and opposition leaders for almost a year and a half. He had no right to a defense at the trial and was sentenced to 13 years in prison by Judge Angel Jeancarlos Fernández González.
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