{"id":250495,"date":"2026-06-01T05:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250495\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T05:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:06:51","slug":"indigenous-leader-brooklyn-rivera-dies-in-nicaragua-after-nearly-3-years-of-detention-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250495\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera dies in Nicaragua after nearly 3 years of detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/brooklyn-rivera\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Rivera<\/a>, a renowned Indigenous leader from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/nicaragua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicaragua<\/a> who spent years fighting for the rights of his community and was imprisoned by the government in September 2023, has died.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/nicaragua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicaragua<\/a>n government issued a statement Sunday claiming that Rivera died from a bacterial infection after his health had declined following a case of COVID-19, which led to his physical and neurological deterioration.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists and groups worldwide denounced his death and a statement that the government released Saturday in which they referred to Rivera as \u201cBrother\u201d and said they were praying for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took him alive, and after refusing to tell his family, his lawyer, the world anything about his fate, then they call him brother,\u201d said Reed Brody, an American human rights lawyer and member of a group of U.N. experts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/nicaragua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicaragua<\/a>. \u201cUnconscionable cynicism on the part of the government to make it seem like they were trying to help him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rivera led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/miskito\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miskito<\/a> people, who live along <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/nicaragua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicaragua\u2019s<\/a> northeast coast and have long fought to retain their lands.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For decades, he fought the ruling Sandinista government and helped establish the area along the northeast coast as an autonomous region. It is rich in gold, silver and other resources, and it is considered a key area for the administration of co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo to attract foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 The Washington Times, LLC.\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico \u2014 Brooklyn Rivera, a renowned Indigenous leader from Nicaragua who spent years fighting for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-250495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}