The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration, denied entry to Nicaragua to the Franciscan priest Juan Carlos Treminio Vallejos, originally from the municipality of Darío, in the department of Matagalpa.
According to information from the Mosaico CSI media outlet, the religious was preparing to return to Nicaragua after having participated “in a meeting of the Permanent Formation Commission of the Franciscan Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe of Central America and Panama based in Guatemala.”
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However, the ground transportation company notified him that he had been denied entry into the country. Article 66 He tried to contact the priest, but communication could not be established.
Ecclesiastical sources confirmed to digital media that Father Juan Carlos Treminio, with 17 years of priestly order, is guardian or superior of the Order of Friars Minor in the Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Fátima Parish in the Central America neighborhood of Managua. In addition, he is president of the Nicaraguan Conference of Religious Men and Women.
Other friars prevented from entering Nicaragua
Treminio is not the only Franciscan who has been denied entry to Nicaragua, since this level of repression has been in place since 2021.
In January of last year, the Ortega dictatorship denied entry to the Salvadoran priest Fray Santos Fabian Mejia Sagastume, parish priest of the San Francisco de Asís Church, of the Diocese of Juigalpa.
The Franciscan was also not allowed to enter —in the same way from El Salvador— Fray Javier Lemus, parish priest of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Matagalpa.
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The dictatorship has not allowed at least seven priests to enter the country. On October 17, Ortega denied entry to his own country to father deyvis lopezparish priest of the San Gregorio Magno church, in Diriamba, Carazo.
The event happened when the priest was preparing to return to his land, after he had been in Virginia, United States for 15 days, however, he was informed through the airline that Nicaraguan Migration had denied his entry, without any justification. .
In addition to denying the entry of religious, Ortega has forced at least 12 priests to have made the decision to go into exile in order to protect their lives, however, others, such as Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, are kidnapped by the Nicaraguan Police.
In the most recent report by lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, she reveals that from 2018 to date, Nicaragua has registered 396 attacks against the Catholic Church.
