Daniel Ortega’s regime deported showgirl Henry Corvera to El Salvador, where he is from, this Thursday, August 18. Corvera and the cameraman Flavio Castro They left this Tuesday from the Episcopal Curia in Matagalpa, where the bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Estelí, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez and eight others, are still “kidnapped”, confirmed two sources to CONFIDENTIAL.
Corvera -who played the piano- along with Membreno Sujin They were the choristers who for several days were in charge of accompanying the singing and the Eucharist by the prelate inside the Curia, since they were surrounded by dozens of riot police, on August 4, and forced to lock themselves in the building.
The young man of Salvadoran nationality had been living with his family in Matagalpa for a few years. Both his departure from the Curia and his deportation have been under total discretion. The only thing that is known is that the police visited his family before they allowed him to leave the building.
Castro remains with his family in Matagalpa, which was also summoned by the Police prior to their evacuation from the Curia. During 16 days of confinement of the religious, the police of the Ortega regime stationed around the four sides of the building, have only allowed the exit of three laymen: the two choristers and the cameraman. insist on blocking supply of food and medicine for the nine people who remain inside the building.
In addition to Monsignor Álvarez, the priests José Luis Díaz and Sadiel Eugarrios, first and second vicar of the San Pedro cathedral, respectively; Óscar Escoto, parish priest of the Santa María de Guadalupe church; Ramiro Tijerino, rector of the John Paul II University and in charge of the San Juan Bautista parish; and Raul Gonzalez. Seminarians Darvin Leyva and Melkin Sequeira and cameraman Sergio Cárdenas accompany him.
Regarding the departure of Membreño, on August 8, sources consulted said that the management was directly with his family, mainly with his sister, Bianka Hernández, who identifies herself as a member of the Sandinista Youth according to her Facebook posts.
Since Thursday, August 4, the Regime Police imposed a police siege on Monsignor Álvarez, preventing him from leaving to carry out his pastoral activities. That day the bishop, recognized for his prophetic voice and critic of the regime, left the Curia and kneeling with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in his hands prayed for the end of the police siege. The response from the institution, accused of committing multiple human rights violations, appeared on Friday afternoon.
In a press release, the National Police reported that the bishop was under house arrest and is being investigated for allegedly “organizing violent groups” and “carrying out acts of hate.” “The people under investigation will remain in their homes,” said the police institution.
The priest’s response to what national and international opinion has described as another attack by the dictatorship on the Catholic Church has been to pray and entrust himself to God. “I am being investigated, well, I don’t know what, but, well, they will be making their own guesses and, second, that they have formally said that we have a house for a prison,” said the priest on Saturday, August 6.
While the police keep the bishop kidnapped, they have unleashed a wave of intimidation against other priests, whose parishes are part of the Diocese of Matagalpa. Last Sunday they captured the priest Oscar Benavidez Davila. The Prosecutor’s Office requested 90 days of confinement for the religious to investigate him for a crime that until now is not known. However, they assured that the State considers itself “victim and offended.”
He is the third priest imprisoned by the regime. The priest Manuel Salvador Garcia Rodriguez, parish priest of the Jesús de Nazareno church —also known as El Calvario—, in Nandaime, Granada, was the first religious to face the justice of the regime, being sentenced on June 22 to two years in prison for the alleged crime of threats with a knife against five people and a fine of 14,116 cordobas or 200 days fine.
Monsignor Leonardo Urbina, A priest from the parish of Perpetuo Socorro, in Boaco, has been in preventive detention since July 13, awaiting trial for the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl.
Persecution against the Catholic Church
In the last two months, the Ortega and Murillo regime undertook a repressive escalation against the Catholic Church that has left so far: three priests imprisoned, 18 nuns expelled from the country, at least five priests besieged, one of them now at home in prison and the closure of a dozen religious media.
Last July 6, 18 Missionaries of Charityan order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, were expelled from the country, being transferred from Managua and Granada to the border with Costa Rica, by the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration (DGME) and the Police.
The priest Uriel Vallejos and a group of parishioners remained besieged by the Police for almost three days in the parish house of Jesús de la Divina Misericordia, in Sébaco.
In addition, between August 1 and 2, the regime closed 14 media outlets: eleven stations, ten belonging to the Diocese of Matagalpa and the independent Radio Vos, also took several cable television channels off the air and took off the air the local channel RB3 “El Canal de la Zona Láctea”, whose programming was broadcast through subscription television.
