Michael Healy

Michael Healy Lacayo ( – 25 January 2024) was a Nicaraguan businessman. He was president of the Superior Council for Private Enterprise, Nicaragua’s leading business chamber, from September 2020 until his arrest in October 2021 in a wave of repression of opposition figures by Daniel Ortega’s government in the run-up to the 2021 Nicaraguan presidential election. He was one of 222 prisoners exiled by Ortega in February 2023.

Business and civic career Michael Healy was president of the Union of Agricultural Producers of Nicaragua (UPANIC), as a sugar cane and banana producer. He was also vice-president of the Superior Council for Private Enterprise (COSEP), the country’s leading business chamber. in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) reported that at least 328 were killed.

In October 2021, Healy was arrested on allegations of money laundering and terrorism under Law 1055, three weeks before the 2021 Nicaraguan general election.

In April 2022, Healy was convicted in a secret trial for which he was not permitted a defense.

After 16 months in prison, Healy was one of 222 prisoners exiled to the United States on 9 February 2023.

Healy died of a heart attack in Panama, on 25 January 2024, at the age of 61.