The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) issued a statement on the occasion of the Advent season that will begin on November 27, stating that despite the adversities, uncertainty and pain, “our Mother, the Virgin, does not abandon us.”
The bishops only focused on expressing their concern about the exodus of Nicaraguans and are silent about the persecution of the Nicaraguan regime against the Church, which has left 11 religious prisoners, the expulsion of the Missionaries of Charity and the house arrest of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, who has not been seen or known about his physical and psychological state for more than 100 days.
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The clergy mention that the reasons for joy do not prevent the Church from recognizing the concerns about the social, political and economic events in Nicaragua, placing main emphasis on “the migration crisis, which is a reflection of a human drama that challenges us.”
The CEN’s concern comes at a time when dozens of Nicaraguans have decided to leave the country due to the economic crisis or political persecution by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Marisol Castillo Bellido, wife of the sanctioned security adviser to Ortega, Lenin Cerna and sanctioned by the United States, presented her resignation from the position of Proprietary Member of the Superior Council of the Comptroller General of the Republic. The letter where she resigns from her position comes a few weeks after the US Treasury Department issued restrictions against the faithful servant of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The now former official of the Nicaraguan dictatorship was also a substitute magistrate in the Supreme Electoral Council before arriving at the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, an institution classified as inoperative due to the null control and investigation functions of the State institutions that are indicated in be corrupt.
Lenín Cerna’s wife did not explain in the letter the reasons for her resignation from office and limited herself to indicating that she needs time with her family. In addition, she feels proud to have participated in what she called a process of evolution of the Comptroller’s Office, which is subject to the orders of the dictatorial couple.
The Spanish singer and composer Joaquín Sabina expressed his international rejection of the actions undertaken by those who call themselves leaders of the left in Latin America.
The 73-year-old artist described as “very sad the authoritarian drift” that the leftist and communist leaders of the region are going through, including the regimes of Nicaragua and Cuba.
Sabina said he was outraged by what he called a “betrayal” of the dictator Daniel Ortega to Nicaragua. This is the second time that the Spanish artist refers to the situation that the country is going through so far in 2022.
The Human Rights Observatory of the Nicaraguan Association for a Better Future expressed its concern after the announcement by the President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, who assured that “measures are being taken” to prevent economic migrants from continuing to use the political refugee regime. to get to work and settle in the Central American nation.
The organization is concerned that the migrant community to Costa Rica “is alarmed and misinterprets the decision of the president (…) Rodrigo Chaves.”
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In turn, he emphasized that the Executive’s discourse regarding migrants “with non-explanatory narratives and with a certain degree of populism” is encouraging the growth of aggressive nationalism and fosters a culture of xenophobia.
The Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners reported that the Ortega regime keeps more than 219 political prisoners in jail until the end of September. The number could be higher because 31 more people were arrested in the electoral context.
Organizations defending human rights denounced this Thursday the arrest of at least 30 indigenous people on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua for participating in protests against an alleged fraud in the municipal elections on the 6th, in which the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front awarded the total of the 153 mayoralties in dispute.
Most of the people detained, including women and children, belong to the Nicaraguan Yatama indigenous party of the Caribbean (children of mother earth, in the Miskito language), a source from said political organization told Efe, who preferred not to be identified for fear of retaliation.
Yatama has publicly denounced that the results issued by the CSE, governed by Sandinista magistrates, and which favor the FSLN, do not coincide with their counts, especially in key municipalities in the southeast of Nicaragua, such as Bilwi or Waspam.
The concern of the relatives of the political prisoners held at the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ) in Managua continues after 83 days incommunicado. Various opposition groups, human rights organizations and international political figures have demanded that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo release all the hostages of conscience.
The relatives have requested a proof of life from the regime to find out if their relatives are still on the site and to know their physical and health status. In addition, they request that the International Committee of the Red Cross enter the prisons and that a regular schedule of visits be drawn up as established by national laws.
On this day, MEP Gabriel Mato, from the Popular Party (PP), demanded that the Nicaraguan regime report on the political prisoner and former presidential candidate Félix Maradiaga.
“To this day, we still have not heard from the El Chipote prison about #FelixMaradiaga. Nicaragua’s dictatorial regime seems to have no limits. We demand to know if he’s okay. Now! », Demanded the European parliamentarian through his Twitter account.
