A home stolen from Dr. Anely Pérez Molina and her family, after her exile to the United States in March 2023, was usurped in May 2026 by people linked to the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, the dermatologist denounced.
The property is valued at $750,000 and is located in the Monte Fresco neighborhood, in the municipality of El Crucero, south of Managua, Pérez told CONFIDENCIAL.
The doctor, who was a member of the opposition Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy (ACJD), expressed that the property was not hers, but “an inheritance” from her husband.
The house has an area of 450 square meters, while the land in total measures 8,385 square meters.
For more than two years, the property was guarded by police and looked abandoned due to lack of maintenance.
“The house was fully furnished and everything we had, including a truck valued at $30,000. In addition, family memories that were left in the hands of the Police,” commented Dr. Anely Pérez.
“There were also—he continued—appliances, furniture, computers, televisions, my children’s games, jewelry that could be valued at about 150,000 dollars.”
The dermatologist announced that “when I found out to whom the property was transferred, I will not be able to rest, because I am going to report that he lives in a stolen house. That is not having values or principles.”
“(With the house) they also stole an entire family history, including the only memory I had of my father,” the doctor stressed.
Anely Pérez is the daughter of the Sandinista guerrilla Cristian Pérez, murdered by the Somoza guard in the Xiloá massacre in May 1979. Her mother is Anely Molina, and her stepfather is the former foreign minister Samuel Santos.
Arrest of Anely Pérez Molina
Dr. Anely Pérez Molina, her husband and two minor children, were exiled from Nicaragua on March 25, 2023. After she was arbitrarily detained for two days at the District III police station.
The doctor recalled that the Police illegally detained her in her home on March 23, and transferred her to the District III delegation. At that time her husband was out of the country, but returned when he found out what had happened.
The day after the arrest, Anely Pérez was taken to the Managua courts, where she was accused of the alleged crimes of treason and cybercrimes. Both invented charges are used by the dictatorship to justify illegal arrests against opponents.
“Those who committed cybercrimes were them (the dictatorship), because they invented a Facebook account with my name with publications that asked for sanctions and that was totally false. They did it to accuse me,” he explained.
The accusation against Dr. Pérez was presented by prosecutor Jorge Luis Arias Jarquín, in the Tenth District Criminal Court of Managua, led by Judge Gloria Saavedra.
Anely Pérez is a specialist in Dermatology, she served as secretary of the Nicaraguan Medical Unit (UNM) —belonging to the ACJD—, an organization that helped opponents and their families after the 2018 protests and that warned, from the beginning, of the dictatorship’s poor management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Forced to decide between prison or exile
After the charges were filed, Dr. Pérez was transferred back to the police station. In that place, the then head of District III, Commissioner General Luis Pérez Olivas, would have forced her to decide. between prison or exile.
“It was part of their plan (the dictatorship) because, after they invented the accusation against me, they took me back to District III of the Police and the general commissioner, Luis Pérez Olivas, told me that I had the option of leaving the country or spending more than 20 years in prison,” he revealed.
On March 25, before 7:00 am, police officers went for Dr. Pérez’s husband and two children. They picked her up at the police station and took the entire family to the Augusto C. Sandino international airport, where they boarded a plane to the United States.
