From exile, the father Edward Romanwho was the parish priest of the San Miguel Arcángel Church, in the city of Masaya, criticized the political leaders who “impose themselves by violence and weapons,” alluding to the Nicaraguan dictatorial couple that remains in power by “blood and fire» for 15 years.
«Palm Sunday: Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey, rejecting triumphalism, refusing to impose himself with violence and weapons. He is not a populist politician taking advantage of the disenchantment of the people », the religious wrote on the social network Twitter on April 10.
Father Román, one of the most critical religious voices of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, is in exile due to the constant threats he received, including from the regime’s spokeswoman, Rosario Murillo.
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“There are moments in life when we have our Palm Sunday and our Good Friday. But Resurrection Sunday will also come to us, victory day, triumph day!, in which the shadow of death will be annihilated, ”said the priest Edwing Román on his Twitter on Palm Sunday, a religious commemoration that remembers the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and opens the Greater Week.
Nicaragua is immersed in a deep sociopolitical, economic and human rights crisis that worsened in 2018, the regime ordered to repress the population that demonstrated against the Government and suffocate with bullets the popular expression that demanded the resignation of Ortega and Murillo.
The repression has left 355 people dead since April 2018, according to updated figures compiled by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), four specialists who investigated the events against the citizenry, concluded that crimes against humanity were committed in Nicaragua and established the responsibilities of the dictatorial couple for those acts.
