The Permanent Committee of the Chilean Episcopate repudiated the sentence of 26 years in prison imposed on the Nicaraguan bishop Rolando Álvarez and assured that with this the regime led by Daniel Ortega adds a new violation of human rights.
In a statement, the Chilean bishops assured that the reprisal against the bishop of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of Estelí, who refused to board a flight to deport 222 opponents to the United States, is “a clearly unfair, arbitrary and disproportionate”.
This attack “adds to other multiple measures applied in recent months against Catholic faithful and organizations: expulsion of the Apostolic Nuncio, expulsion of the Missionaries of Charity nuns, exile and imprisonment of priests, closure of the media,” they explained.
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“All this in the midst of various restrictions on civil and political liberties and the silencing of the dissident voices of the regime, which expressed itself yesterday in the exile of more than 200 Nicaraguans from their country. It threatens human rights, the essential dignity of the person and religious freedom,” they added.
Socialist Platform of Chile welcomes freedom of democrats
The platform SChilean socialist, member of the Broad Front, stated that they have observed “with perplexity that, leaving the democratic and libertarian path that General (Augusto César) Sandino taught Nicaragua, today a totalitarian dictatorship has been enthroned, headed by the Ortega-Murillos, that controls all the institutions and levers of power”.
They regretted that a “painful tragedy” in which “the repression apparatuses of the regime murdered
more than 300 citizens and filled the jails with anti-law Democrats. dictatorship”.
“A irrepressible complaint international forehead to the regime dictatorial forced, recently, to (the) Ortega-Murillo to release to 222 men and women, who They were imprisoned in opprobrious conditions. But, the hatred of the dictatorship
it has taken away your political rights, including the loss of your citizenship. He has them declared stateless, against all international laws,” they said in a statement.
For this reason, the Socialist Platform points out that they “place at your disposal to accompany you in your fight”.
“Just as we enthusiastically support the participation of sisters and brothers Chileans in the military struggle that ended the Somoza dynasty and later in the construction of the new society, we are now committed to helping the
Nicaraguan democrats to defeat the shameful new dynasty that oppresses his people,” they detailed.
With information from EFE
