The critic of the dictatorship Yader Morazán, a former official of the Judiciary, criticized the expulsion of the Missionary Sisters of Charity by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship. He explained that “it is one thing to cancel the legal status of NGOs and quite another to deport the personnel who worked there without legal process.”
Morazán pointed out that this action, by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo «does not happen in any civilized country, not even jumping the border fence irregularly. Ambassadors, react!
Related news: Missionaries expelled from Nicaragua lived “moments of anguish, fearful of their physical integrity”
The Sisters of Charity were expelled from Nicaragua yesterday, July 6, by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship. A minibus with the nuns inside was escorted from its headquarters in Granada to the land border with Costa Rica. There the nuns were received by priests from the Diocese of Tilarán, Liberia.
Title XV of Law 761, General Law of Foreign Migration, on deportation, expulsion and extradition, establishes in article 171 seven causes to apply any of these figures to foreigners who are in the country, none of them would apply to Missionaries of Charity.
Points six and seven of article 171 indicate as grounds for deportation or expulsion “constitute a danger to citizen security and public order and habitual vagrancy previously demonstrated.”
Article 173 explains that any act of deportation “must be carried out through duly substantiated Administrative Resolutions”, a situation that did not happen with the Missionary Sisters of Charity, at least publicly, no document was known that refers to the expulsion of the sisters. religious.
Since the cancellation of the legal personality of the Missionaries of Charity Association was announced, the nuns of the order created by Mother Teresa of Calcutta have experienced “difficult moments, of anxiety, of anguish, fearful of their physical integrity,” reported Monsignor Manuel Eugenio Salazar, Bishop of the Diocese of Tilarán in Liberia, Costa Rica.
“They were very worried until they reached Costa Rican territory. If it had been for them, they would stay in Nicaragua, they love Nicaragua, they love the Nicaraguan people, especially the poorest and most needy,” said the bishop in a video released on his social networks.
The priest Edwing Román, former pastor of the San Miguel Arcángel church in Masaya, described the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo as a “beast” after the expulsion from Nicaragua of the sisters of the Missionaries of Charity Association.
Through his Twitter account, the religious published a photo of the Holy Mother Teresa of Calcutta with Princess Diana and indicated, through a parallelism, that “while a lady welcomed her and admired her, in Nicaragua a beast would expel her ».
Monsignor Silvio Báez, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, questioned that the “preaching of love” that Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship boasts of was “far” from the facts, after expelling the sisters of the Missionaries of Charity Association .
“If it is true that “perfect love expels fear” (1 Jn 4:18), it is also true that petty fear expels love,” the religious expressed through his Twitter account.
