On June 9, 2018, five years ago, when Carazo was still crying for his children, killed the day before by paramilitary forces; In the Minor Basilica of San Sebastián, in Diriamba, Ortega fanatics launched themselves against a commission made up of the country’s bishops and priests to commit the greatest outrage in the history of Nicaragua against the highest hierarchy of the Church.
Hooded men shouting Sandinista slogans and vociferating against religion, in the Diriambino temple, a group of Ortega fanatics entered by force and physically and verbally attacked the Archbishop of Managua, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the Auxiliary Bishop Silvio José Báez, and the Apostolic Nuncio in Nicaragua at that time, Waldemar Stanislaw and other priests.
The paramilitaries desecrated the church. There were bumps, scratches, and blood. Bishop Báez was injured in his arms and today he recalled and condemned the attack that he, along with his brothers in faith, were victims of. On his social networks he uploaded a video that summarizes the plan designed by Ortega in that city to attack them.
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Opposition leaders in exile or exile remember that day, which they baptized as “the day of outrage against the Catholic hierarchy.” Former politician Juan Sebastián Chamorro, who was a member of the commission that went to verify the massacre that had occurred the day before, recalls on his Twitter account that “On July 9, 18, paramilitaries throughout Diriamba, uniformed and armed, doors closed , terror. Kidnapped in the Basilica, paramilitaries inside attacking bishops, scratches, blood and beaten journalists. We were able to get out amid the screams of the mob inflamed with hate”.
The journalist Miguel Mendoza, for his part, recalls that five years ago in Diriamba “the Sandinista mobs attacked the bishops who came to contain the armed aggression against the population.”
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The hooded men did not arrive alone, outside, a mob of Sandinistas also harassed the religious and parishioners, threw stones at them, pushed them and accused them of being coup plotters and murderers, repeating the accusations constantly made by the dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The bishops traveled to Diriamba, located 42 kilometers south of Managua, to free a group of nurses and Franciscan missionaries besieged by paramilitaries in the temple and to verify the massacre that occurred the day before. They were accompanied by opposition leaders and a battery of journalists. They were all attacked.
