The dictator Daniel Ortega revealed that Bishop Rolando Álvarez was locked up in the Jorge Navarro penitentiary system, known as La Modelo, in Tipitapa, after the Catholic leader’s refusal to allow himself to be exiled.
Ortega explained on a national television channel that Bishop Álvarez, who was at home under house arrest, was finally imprisoned in La Modelo, after, according to the president, the Nicaraguan high priest was taken to the Augusto International Airport and being ” in the airplane stands”, he refused to board the aircraft that would take him to the United States, together with 222 other political prisoners who were exiled.
Ortega took advantage of his appearance to unleash a barrage of insults against Bishop Álvarez. «I was in prison for seven years and I never knew a story of a prisoner who had been treated as this man has been treated. But since he did not want to, he is now in the La Modelo prison, “revealed the Sandinista tyrant.
“He considers himself the leader of the church, and is about to run for the position of His Holiness the Pope (Francis). He’s crazy, he’s totally crazy. That will now have to be determined by the judicial authorities and the medical authorities, “said Ortega, obviously on fire against the Catholic leader who, until his imprisonment, served as bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Estelí.
«Now that he arrived at La Modelo, he arrived as a madman, he does not have the courage, he cannot have the courage of Christ who endured the lashes and endured the crucifixion. He does not even accept being put in a cell where there are hundreds of prisoners,” Ortega continued.
In addition, the red and black caudillo took advantage of his appearance to show Bishop Álvarez as a wealthy man. “Since he was kept in his house, special meals were made for him every day, the doctors came twice a day, the sisters came to cook for him and he lived in a mansion. It’s not that he lives in a little house like the houses for the town, or like the house where Cardinal (Leopoldo) Brenes lives, in Altagracia, no. He lives in a mansion, it is a mansion, and the whole family (of the bishop) lives there, each one has his mansion, and now he is irritated because he is in jail ».
“This is how this man who refused to abide is, it is the rage of not abiding by the decision of the Nicaraguan State, because he willingly goes to Miami to join (Monsignor Silvio) Báez, to rant with Báez, but since he is the The Nicaraguan State is ordering his deportation, so there is his anger, the anger, the fury, and as he decided, there he is serving prison (in La Modelo),” he concluded.
Daniel Ortega also referred to the 11 priests, seminarians, and lay people who were exiled on the same plane provided by the United States and to the two cardinals who were not included in the list, because, according to him, “they are imprisoned for common crimes that have nothing to do with them.” do with politics.
“The 11 inmates who were in Judicial Aid, 11 in total, all of them religious, priests and lay people, “all of them got on the plane, they left on the plane,” he said, countering that none of these members of the Catholic Church They refused to accept exile, as Monsignor Álvarez did.
“The only priests left in the country, (besides) Álvarez, who did not want to abide by what the law mandates, what the Nicaraguan State mandates and then two priests who are detained, one from Boaco (Monsignor Leonardo Urbina), who He has accusations of raping a 13-year-old girl, (who) the girl’s family accused him of, this has nothing to do with politics, it is simply a common crime and he is in the Tipitapa Penitentiary System; The other priest who is detained is that of Nandaime (Father Manuel Salvador García), the crime is injury, this is the case of the priest who came out with a machete, attacking, fighting with a woman and has nothing to do with politics. They are the only ones who are being detained, these two for common crimes and the other for terrorists,” summed up the Sandinista tyrant.
