Human rights organizations and Nicaraguan opponents are promoting, through social networks, to nominate Monsignor Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Center for Inter-American Legal Assistance in Human Rights (CALIDH) stated that it supports this initiative, because Monsignor Álvarez should be worthy of this recognition “for his prophetic voice and his fight for human rights.”
The opposition bloc Free Nicaraguans He also showed his support for the religious leader for the Nobel Peace Prize. “We believe that if someone symbolizes living the spirit of non-violence, and with it confronts the evil power, it is precisely our brother and compatriot Monsignor Rolando Álvarez Lagos,” the organization highlighted in a statement.
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«We believe, therefore, that his candidacy should be presented and promoted for the Nobel Peace Prize. That would be a clear message against tyranny on our part, a clear message from the civilized world, an acknowledgment of the value of coherence between preaching and practice, and above all, a lesson: nonviolent struggle represents a moral apex because it means that whoever makes it agrees to suffer and exhibit their suffering to motivate us to resist evil,” he added.
Likewise, the former official of the Judiciary Yader Morazan He assured that “for having interrupted a procession of Jesus in the Sacrament to avoid more bloodshed that May 14, 2018 in the city of Sébaco, Matagalpa; in which the population was being attacked by the regime, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez deserves to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The father Uriel Vallejos, who was forced into exile due to the regime’s persecution of the Catholic Church, also joined the initiative. «Catholics and non-Catholics, lover of justice, peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, respect for personal integrity and true Christian love; Let’s promote Monsignor Rolando José Álvarez for the Nobel Peace Prize,” the religious wrote in his Twitter account. Twitter.
Recently, it was learned that the Ortega regime would have ordered Monsignor Álvarez to be transferred to a punishment cell after being sentenced by the Nicaraguan justice system to more than 26 years in prison.
The Bishop of Matagalpa is one of the most critical voices against the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship, the binomial that controls the strings of power in Nicaragua, a country mired in a sociopolitical, economic, and human rights crisis since 2018.
The Ortega court sentenced the bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa on Friday, February 10, under a sentence of 26 years in prison. This after being transferred to the Jorge Navarro prison system known as “La Modelo”. He is the first Nicaraguan bishop imprisoned by the Sandinista dictatorship and accused of crimes of treason against the homeland, for allegedly violating Law 1055, Law of Sovereignty. This legal tool was approved to persecute opponents of the regime.
