The Bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Jose Alvarez, refused to leave Nicaragua. He decided to stay for accompanies the Catholics who are affecting the repression.
Álvarez stopped on the steps of the plane going to Washington and said “Let them be free, I pay the condemnation of them”.
He was declared a “traitor to the homeland.” They stripped him of his nationality without having carried out the trial and he was housed in the La Modelo prison. He U.S. government demanded his release.
Nicaragua deported to the US more than 200 political prisoners, accused of “treason against the homeland”
Álvarez has been one of the most critical clergymen of the Daniel Ortega regime since 2018, when a wave of protests led to a broad repression against opponents.
In his sermons he criticized the violation of human rights, religious persecution and abuse of power.
In May 2018, he joined the team of the Episcopal Conference who corresponds as a witness and mediator in the first National Dialogue between the regime and the opposition.
Nicaragua lived a civic rebellion that paralyzed the country with barricades on streets and highways and constant protest marches that came to demand Ortega’s resignation.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) estimates that 355 people born in those days.
FM
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