Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa To Reunite With Father As U.S. Secures Release Of Political Prisoners From Nicaragua
10.02.2023 - 02:37
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Following an exhaustive 19-month struggle to help free his father from a Nicaraguan prison, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and his family are to be reunited with patriarch Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa imminently on U.S. soil.
The elder Aguirre-Sacasa was part of a group of political prisoners released from a Nicaraguan jail who arrived in Washington D.C. this morning.
“This is a miracle,” an exuberant Roberto Aguirre Sacasa told Deadline. “There’s no other way to describe this crazy story and how it ends other than as the biggest plot twist that none of us saw coming,” he added as he prepares for his trip to the east coast later tonight to reunite with his father.
As Deadline reported In August 2021, the writer and producer behind shows like Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin was desperate for information about his father after he was detained on the border of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. When Francisco and his wife neared the local airport for a flight to Washington D.C., he was taken by Nicaraguan police and disappeared.
The elder Aguirre-Sacasa, an outspoken critic of the Daniel Ortega regime, was later found imprisoned at El Chipote prison off the books and unbeknownst to his family. He spent months at the notoriously dangerous institution before he was allowed a transfer to house arrest, finally able to take much-needed medication that the prison had banned and to speak to his loved ones. Heartbreakingly for the family, he was once again returned to El Chipote after a period at home, where he remained incarcerated until his surprise flight to freedom this morning.
Throughout the 19-month struggle, the Aguirre-Sacasa family was in touch with former U.S. Senator and current special presidential adviser for the
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