SAN JOSE (Reuters) -Former Nicaraguan military officer Roberto Samcam was killed on Thursday in Costa Rica, where he was living in exile, his wife and opposition parties said.
Samcam, a retired Sandinista major, was shot to death in his condo on the outskirts of the capital San Jose, his wife, Claudia Vargas, told Reuters.
Samcam was a vocal critic of the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega, which human rights groups and the U.N. have accused of carrying out a violent crackdown on dissidents.
A Costa Rican police source confirmed Samcam’s death to Reuters and said authorities were on the scene. The national police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Nicaraguan government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Gabriela Selser and Alvaro Murillo; editing by Deepa Babington and Rod Nickel)
