The Nicaraguan government made the decision hours after an interview was published in which Pope Francis described the Ortega regime as a “Hitlerian dictatorship.”
The Government of Nicaragua ordered the rupture of diplomatic relations with the Vatican after the strong statements of Pope Francis calling the Sandinista regime “rude” and “Hitlerian.” As confirmed by the digital media Confidentialthe regime made the decision a few hours after the interview was published.
Confidential He explained that the representative of the Ortega government before the Holy See “verbally communicated” the break in relations in the Vatican Secretariat of State.
Pope Francis was very clear during the extensive interview published last Friday, March 10, on the portal infobae where He affirmed that there is an “imbalance” in the Nicaraguan president.
«With great respect, I have no choice but to think about an imbalance in the person who leads (Daniel Ortega). there we have a imprisoned bishop, a very serious man, very capable. He wanted to give his testimony and did not accept exile,” Francis said from his residence in Santa Marta, in Vatican City, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his papacy.
Francis was speaking of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the diocese of Estelí, both in northern Nicaragua, who a month ago was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison for crimes considered “treason against the homeland.” » and one day after refusing to be exiled by the Ortega government to US territory.
The bishop refused to get on the plane that would take him, along with 222 other released Nicaraguan political prisoners, all opponents, to the United States, which provoked the fury of Ortega, who labeled him “arrogant”, “insane” and “energúmeno”.
In his analysis, Pope Francis added that “it is something that is outside of what we are experiencing, it is as if it were bringing the communist dictatorship of 1917 or the Hitlerian dictatorship of 1935, bringing the same here (…) They are a type of dictatorship rude Or, to use a cute distinction from Argentina, guarangas.”
Confidential He added that “the representative of the Nunciature in Managua was given a week to leave the country.”
With the break, Nicaragua joined the group of thirteen countries that do not maintain diplomatic relations with the Holy See: four communists (Vietnam, North Korea, China and Laos) and eight are Muslims (Somalia, Oman, Mauritania, Maldives, Comoros Islands, Brunei, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia), the other is Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom in southern Asia.
This way, Ortega and Murillo will end a diplomatic relationship of at least 115 yearssince the relations between Nicaragua and the Holy See were born in 1908. However, the coexistence between the Sandinistas and the Catholic Church of Nicaragua has been marked by friction and mistrust in the last 43 years.
Monsignor Mbaye Diouf, secretary of the Nunciature, has been in charge of the Vatican diplomatic mission -as charge d’affaires- since the beginning of March last year, after the dictatorship de facto expelled the apostolic nuncio, Monsignor Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag.
The Ortega y Murillo regime verbally notified the apostolic nuncio of its expulsion from Nicaragua. On Saturday, March 5, 2022, the vice minister of foreign affairs, Arlette Marenco, notified the papal representative that she had ten days to leave the country; However, after consultations with the Holy See, Monsignor Sommertag left his diplomatic mission the following day at night —Sunday, March 6—, without saying goodbye to the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference (CEN) or the accredited diplomatic corps in the country.
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