The Bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Monsignor Rolando Alvarezdenounced the arbitrary closure of six Catholic stations, which were canceled by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Post Office (Telcor).
On the night of August 1, during his homily, the Catholic chief confronted Nahima Janett Díaz Flores, general director of Telcor and daughter of the presidential in-law, police chief Francisco Díaz; for her to receive him in her offices to show them all the documents that were received by the former director of the institution, Orlando Castillo, on July 7, 2016.
«Today I want to do it vividly from my lips and in person, that on July 7, 2016 I personally went to a meeting with the engineer Orlando Castillo, may he rest in peace, who at that time was the director of Telcor with all the folios of our radios to ask that they put us in the Law according to the effective orders of Telcor; and we never received an answer as is the custom of the government in some and many other cases. In such a way, that if the director of Telcor wants to receive me, I will take all the documents that I presented to them with the receipt and signature of that same day from Telcor, “said the priest.
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In addition, Monsignor Álvarez emphasized that if Telcor proves that the closure of the radio stations is legally justified, he would publicly acknowledge the situation, but if it were the opposite, he demanded that the authorities admit their mistakes.
«If they are right, I myself will say before the people that it is correct that they close our radios, but if they are not right, they should have the courage and courage to say that they were wrongor that they purposely want to shut down our media outlets,” he stressed.
He added that “I have never had a problem recognizing my mistakes and they know it, but I will not accept errors and injustices that they want to give us, when they are their accounts and they know it very well. They know that if I make mistakes I admit it, but in the meantime let them accept their injustices».
The Ortega-Murillo regime ordered the closure of the Catholic Radio of Sébaco, in Sébaco; Radio Brothers, in Matagalpa; Radio Stereo Fatima, in Rancho Grande; Radio Our Lady of Lourdes, from La Dalia; Radio Alliens, from San Dionisio; Radio Monte Carmelo, from Río Blanco and Radio San José.
After this new attack by the dictatorship against the Catholic Church, Monsignor Rolando Alvarez assured that «They have closed all our radios. But the Word of God, they will not silence it».
Dictatorship attacks the Catholic Church in Sébaco
On the night of August 1, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through the Police, broke into the gates of the Niño Jesús de Praga chapel, which is adjacent to the Divina Misericordia parish house, in Sébaco, alerted through social networks the Diocese of Matagalpa.
“We want to inform the people of Nicaragua that at this time the riot police have violated the gates of the Niño Jesús de Praga chapel, next to the Divina Misericordia parish house in Sébaco,” the ecclesiastical authorities detailed.
The priest of the Divina Misericordia de Sébaco parish, Uriel Vallejos, who, according to the data, “is taking refuge in the Casa Cural” is housed in the chapel. “We want to make it clear that if they touch one of our priests, they touch the entire Diocese of Matagalpa”he added.
According to images released by the Divina Misericordia parish, where the bells ring as a warning signal, dozens of parishioners have come to the place to defend the facilities and equipment of Radio Católica and have been repelled by the police with shots in the air and tear gas.
