Murder Victim. Álvaro Manuel Conrado Dávila was a Nicaraguan high school student who became a martyr at the age of 15 during the 2018 protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega, after dying after being denied care at the private hospital "Cruz Azul" in Managua, after being shot and wounded by paramilitaries related to the government on the third day of these protests, which initially went against the reform of the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS), when he was carrying bottles of water for the protesters. Born in Managua, he studied elementary school at Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús and high school at Instituto Loyola, studying until the tenth grade at the time of his death and in which he was a member of the athletics team since 2017 with which he won 3 medals. On April 18, 2018, protests broke out against social security reforms. Two days later (on April 20) they were published in the official newspaper La Gaceta, while protests increased and intensified throughout the country, demanding justice for four deaths the day before, for the dozens of injured and assaulted since the start of the protests. protests and the censorship imposed on the 100% Noticias channel. On April 20, in the morning, after his father left for work, Álvaro left his house in the Monseñor Lezcano neighborhood to look for two of his friends and go with them to the National Engineering University (UNI) to leave two bottles of water to university students who were confronting the police on the campus of said university and near the Cathedral of Managua. Álvaro was on the UNI premises when he was wounded in the neck by a bullet, and according to witnesses, he was shot by a sniper from the Denis Martínez National Stadium. He was treated by volunteer lifeguards who took him to a makeshift medical post on the premises, later he was taken on a stretcher to a car that took him to the Cruz Azul Hospital, a social security clinic, where he was denied medical attention. According to human rights organizations (national and international), the government of Daniel Ortega and the health minister, Sonia Castro, ordered public hospitals not to treat protesters injured during the protests. He was immediately taken to Baptist Hospital, where he died during a 4 hour surgery, due to blood loss. Doctors at the Bautista hospital determined that if the care had been earlier, Álvaro would have survived. He was for a long time the youngest mortal victim of the crisis and due to his young age and the fact that his only crime was taking bottles of water to the protesters, many people consider him a "child martyr". His death inspired songs, drawings, murals, a novel called Like waiting for April, a play, etc., in his honor. His image became a symbol of popular protests in which photographs, drawings, T-shirts and signs with his image were never lacking. Álvaro's last words: "It hurts to breathe" also deeply penetrated Nicaraguan society, which used them as a banner in the protests, sometimes modified as: "It hurts all of Nicaragua to breathe" and "It still hurts us to breathe."