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killed the young man when he attempted to pass the general's motorcade on
October 28, 1990. In November 1990 the Nicaraguan National Assembly along with experts from the Venezuelan Ministry of Justice began an investigation of this incident. Most of the evidence found by the investigators proved to be circumstantial and the travel records for the motorcade were never found. Civil District Judge Boanerges Ojeda suggested Ortega's bodyguards, two officers, and Humberto be tried in court before he passed the case to the military prosecutors office where it was closed in July 1992. He retired in 1995, turning the job over to his second in command,
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Ortega spoke out on the arbitrary arrests of his brother's regime, and encouraged his government to release the accused, claiming that they are not terrorists, but opponents with different points of view. In
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