He Pope Francisco He hardened his tone to refer to the Nicaraguan dictatorship, led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. He described that they are unbalanced, communists and Hitlerites.
In the interview with the Argentine media Infobae, the Supreme Pontiff used the colloquial word “guarangas” to describe the regime that, according to the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), means “uncivil, rude.” He Oxford Languages defines “guarango” as someone “who is rude, cheeky, rude or vulgar.”
“With great respect, I have no choice but to think about an imbalance in the person who leads (…) They are a type of rude dictatorship, or to use a nice distinction from Argentina, guarangas”, expressed the pope when asked about religious persecution In Nicaragua.
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Opposition groups in Nicaragua valued the statements of Pope Francis regarding the sociopolitical crisis that the country is experiencing as a “support” to a people who resent the religious persecution to which the Daniel Ortega dictatorship has subjected them.
The lawyer and member of the Political Council of the Blue and White National Unity (UNAB), Juan Diego Barberena, indicated that “it makes us conclude that there is no such negotiation or dialogue, or understanding between the Vatican and the Ortega dictatorship.”
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The Police have prohibited the traditional field mass that, every March 22, the Catholic Church celebrates in the open air near the Tepeyac sanctuary to commemorate the day that Father Odorico D’Andrea, the Italian priest who spent 37 years in Nicaragua, died. most of the time in San Rafael del Norte in Jinotega.
The religious authorities of that Diocese reported that the mass will be inside the sanctuary.
The parishioners have not contained their criticism and have denounced the abuse on their social networks. They wrote that “it was the Sandinista police, the ones behind this coup against our faith.” Others have revealed that the same policemen have told them that the order comes from Managua.
A group of Nicaraguan political prisoners released received the “Defenders of Justice” award from the Global Women’s Institute of George Washington University, in the United States, within the framework of Women’s Day.
The award to the also exiled politicians recognizes the value and dignity of the Nicaraguan opposition women; declared stateless and subjected, many, to more than three years of confinement by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
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In the midst of diplomatic tensions between Nicaragua and the European Union, after the expulsion by part of the Daniel Ortega regime of ambassador Bettina Muscheid, the dictatorship decided to annul the appointment of Juan Carlos Ducasse Tapia as head of the General Directorate for Europe of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The former official of the dictatorship Ortega Murillo is the son of Ruth Tapia, former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) and brother of Óscar Ulises Cortés Tapia, who serves as Director of Protocol of the Foreign Ministry.
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In western Nicaragua, the more than 1,500 students at the Autonomous Christian University of Nicaragua (UCAN), canceled by the Ortega and Murillo regime, do not know what will happen to their career. Another group that experiences uncertainty is the administrative staff, who do not know what will happen to their jobs.
For now, students continue to come to class, but “nobody explains anything, because nobody knows anything.”
An administrative source revealed that the buildings and all university real estate were confiscated by the government. And that the students who continue at said university will continue to pay their fees. The regime has canceled 19 private universities in recent years.
