Faced with the repressive escalation maintained by the Daniel Ortega regime against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, the US senator blond frame demanded that President Joe Biden apply more sanctions to the Ortega administration “by virtue of the NIC Law of 2018 and the RENACER Law of 2021».
“The international community can and should do more to support Bishop Rolando Álvarez and to the Catholics of Nicaragua,” Rubio said in his website.
For Republican Senator the pronouncements for the religious persecution experienced by the Nicaraguan Church by Pope Francis, the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, «they are not enough. What is happening under the Ortega-Murillo regime It’s not just cause for “concern”it is a deprivation of fundamental rights».
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In addition, he lamented that the Ortega regime continues to violate the fundamental rights of the Nicaraguan people and reiterated that sanctions should be applied to the Sandinista administration, since “the brutal dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo rule with an iron hand” the country.
He stressed that “the arrest of Bishop Álvarez —and the oppression Monsignors Silvio José Báez Ortega, Juan Abelardo Mata Guevara and Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, as well as Father Edwing Román Calderón—demonstrates that those attacks will continue as long as Ortega and his wife remain in power.
Therefore, Marco Rubio insisted that “we must do more to combat religious persecution in Nicaragua And that starts with President Joe Biden, whose silence on the arrest of Bishop Álvarez is deafening”.
«One more timeI make a called to the Biden administration so that sanction regime officials and suspend Nicaraguan trade benefits of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic and Central America (CAFTA-DR). The US has the power to do so under the NIC Law of 2018 and the RENACER Law of 2021, laws that Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and I wrote for situations like this,” he said.
“We must use them to hold the dictatorship accountable for its crimes,” the US senator reiterated.
Likewise, he stressed that Monsignor Rolando Álvarez and “his people need our prayers, but they also need our supportand that means facing Ortega and Murillo».
