Nicaraguan organizations exiles in Miami, United States, they will carry out a march in commemoration of the four years of civic struggle of the Nicaraguan people, after participating in a Eucharist celebrated by Monsignor Silvio Baez as a symbol of “remembering the words of that April in the Managua cathedral” when the religious leader said that “Nicaragua will rise again,” declared Byron Estrada in an interview with Article 66.
The former political prisoner explained that this mass in the Santa Ágatha church is being held to obtain the blessing of Monsignor Báez before the central activity that will start from Rubén Darío Park in Miami, at two in the afternoon, on Sunday, April 17. “It is a way of commemorating and also remembering the words when the Ortega Police were attacking the boys, we bring to mind the saying that “Nicaragua will resurrect.” Those words of the monsignor are made alive this Sunday (17) that we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ for the Catholic Church,” Estrada said.
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“In addition, the prayer of thousands of exiles who have had to leave their homeland knowing that it is difficult, knowing that it is hard, as Monsignor Báez also said: “Nicaragua crucified will rise again”; We have those hopes for the people,” added the student leader from the city of León.
During the march organized by Mujeres Pinoleras, Unidos por Nicaragua and Sol Nica, the released political prisoner, María Elvira Salazar by the United States Congress, representative of the Democratic party; Miami Dade County authorities; mothers and fathers of Victims of April, and Luis Fley, known as Commander Johnson of the Nicaraguan Resistance.
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In 2018, the Catholic hierarch, auxiliary bishop of Managua, defended the role of youth in the civic rebellion and called them “the moral reserve” of Nicaragua. He participated as a member of the Mediation Commission in the first and failed National Dialogue.
His outstanding role in defense of the human rights of Nicaraguans forced him into exile, a decision by Pope Francis to protect his physical integrity.
His homilies criticize the rulers and defend the Nicaraguan people, this has led him to be the target of attacks by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. They have mounted smear campaigns, memes, manipulated videos, even alleged believers collected signatures to ask Pope Francis to remove him from office.
