Spanish MEP José Ramón Bauzá condemned in an interview with the Catholic press the religious persecution undertaken by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against the Church of Nicaragua.
«The Church has suffered one of the blackest summers under the repression of the dictator Daniel Ortega. The arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez or the outlawing of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Teresa of Calcutta represent the submission of Nicaraguans, who mostly declare themselves Catholic,” Bauzá told journalist José Calderero of the Spanish Catholic weekly Alfa y Omega.
The statements of the Spanish politician come after the approval this Thursday of a resolution of the European Parliament condemning the onslaught of the Ortega dictatorship against the Nicaraguan Church.
For the deputy, from the Citizens party (Cs, right), the European Parliament should not let the arbitrariness that is committed by the Managua regime pass, although he recognizes that the situation in Nicaragua is “complicated.”
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“The situation in the country is not easy. We have to be realist (…). It is essential to be on top and not let any of the abuses committed by the dictator Daniel Ortega pass by,” said the former president of the Balearic Islands.
More sanctions
Spanish MEP José Ramón Bauzá once again asked the European Parliament for “forceful” sanctions against the Ortega regime, including those that would affect the finances of the Ortega-Murillo family.
“All the dictators in the area are condemned except him. Dictatorships are nothing more than a business and the pocket is what worries these characters the most (…) You have to block the accounts, freeze the funds, intercept the figureheads, in short, cut off their economic oxygen and everything that allow any movement to be made,” stressed the Spanish politician.
