Mauricio Funes, former president and fugitive from justice in El Salvador, attacked, through a video, Monsignor Rolando Alvarezcurrent political prisoner of the Daniel Ortega regime.
The protected and nationalized Nicaraguan compared the Bishop of Matagalpa with Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, assassinated on March 4, 1980, affirming that the Salvadoran priest “was murdered by the right,” while the Nicaraguan priest “committed crimes.”
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“They say that the same thing happened to Monsignor Álvarez as to Monsignor Romero, it is not true, because Monsignor Romero was a man committed to the people, but Monsignor Álvarez is committed and colluded with the interests of the right-wing opposition,” said the former president. From El Salvador.
Funes said that although it is true, Monsignor Romero was accused “of subversive and destabilizing but they did not bring him to justice; his execution was a summary execution and he was murdered by the right, by the death squads”, while he justified the arrest of the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Estelí, affirming that he was accused by the Ortega justice, although he did not say that in Ortega’s courts are actually a firing squad where innocents are sentenced, just because they oppose the Sandinista dictatorship.
He also stated that if Monsignor Álvarez were assassinated, it would be by “the squadrons of the right-wing squadron,” in reference to the Nicaraguan opposition.
“Monsignor Álvarez has not only been part of the right (…) but the Prosecutor’s Office filed charges because he was using all the media apparatus that he had under his responsibility in Matagalpa, about four or five radio stations to spread hate messages, confrontation and permanent attacks on the government,” remarked the criminal from El Salvador.
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Wanting to justify the attack against the priest, Funes said that “there is no problem” that the prelate “attacks” the Ortega dictatorship, but supposedly what he committed is “an apology for the crime.”
After the declarations of the protégé of the dictator Daniel Ortega, Father Edwing Román expressed that “Mauricio Funes, a Salvadoran criminal, protected by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, should already be prosecuted in El Salvador.”
For his part, the former politician and president of the Foundation for the Freedom of Nicaragua, Félix Maradiaga, recalled that Mauricio Funes “is a fugitive from Salvadoran justice and is convicted of corruption crimes in that country.”
«The judicial authorities demand the return of what was stolen. Funes has evaded prison simply thanks to the protection provided by his partner Daniel Ortega. However, with great impudence, he rants against Monsignor Álvarez, repeating the insults and slander of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship,” he added.
On Wednesday, July 5, the Third Sentencing Court of San Salvador handed down a six-year prison sentence against Mauricio Funes for evading taxes during the 2014 fiscal period, however the Ortega regime granted him nationality and keeps him “protected”. ».
