Father Edwing Román, ex-parish priest of the San Miguel Arcángel de Masaya church, criticized the recent exhibition that the Nicaraguan regime made of monsignor Rolando Alvarezduring the recent family visit in the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo”, in Tipitapa.
For the priest, the action of the Ortega dictatorship was “a stage with curtains” that covered the walls of the men’s prison. He also stated that “no one can be happy in jail.”
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He indicated to others that Monsignor Álvarez, as a religious minister, must be with his Church. “His happiness is to be with the people of God entrusted to him and he should be preparing for Holy Week with his priests,” the priest said through his Twitter account.
The bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa was exhibited on Saturday night, March 25, through the government propaganda media, after the visit made to him by two of his brothers, who had not seen him since February 9, the day he refused to be exiled from Nicaragua along with 222 other former political prisoners.
“Monsignor Rolando Álvarez received a visit from his brothers, Vilma and Manuel Antonio Álvarez Lagos (…) in the Jorge Navarro de Tipitapa National Penitentiary System,” details the brief information published by the websites of the Sandinista dictatorship.
The dictator Daniel Ortega allows the visit of the religious, after at the beginning of March, Vilma Esperanza Álvarez Lagos, sister of the prelate, demanded that the Nicaraguan authorities allow her to visit him, since she had not seen him since February 9, when the Justice of Daniel Ortega transferred him to the “La Modelo” prison in Tipitapa, as punishment for refusing to board a plane to be exiled.
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The Ortega justice found Monsignor Rolando Álvarez guilty for the alleged crimes of “treason against the homeland”; he sentenced him to 26 years in prison, stripping him of his nationality and stripping him of his civil and political rights for life.
This was the first visit that the bishop’s relatives made to him in “La Modelo”, after the sentence imposed by the Ortega justice; It is also the first time that Ortega exhibits him in photographs with his relatives.
