After more than a month and a half of solitary confinement, relatives of Monsignor Rolando Alvarez, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, were able to visit him on the afternoon of this Saturday, March 25.
The images of the family visit in the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo”, were recently released by the propaganda media of the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
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In the published photos, it is possible to see the smiling prelate next to his relatives, but always watched by guards of the men’s prison.
“Monsignor Rolando Álvarez received a visit from his brothers, Vilma and Manuel Antonio Álvarez Lagos, on the afternoon of this Saturday, March 25, in the Jorge Navarro de Tipitapa National Penitentiary System,” details the brief information published by the websites of the Sandinista dictatorship.
The dictator Daniel Ortega allows the visit of the religious, after at the beginning of March, Vilma Esperanza Álvarez Lagos, sister of the prelate, demanded that the Nicaraguan authorities allow her to visit him, since she had not seen him since February 9, when the Justice of Daniel Ortega transferred him to the “La Modelo” prison in Tipitapa, as punishment for refusing to board a plane to be exiled.
The Ortega justice found Monsignor Rolando Álvarez guilty for the alleged crimes of “treason” and sentenced him to 26 years in prison, stripped him of his nationality and stripped him of his civil and political rights for life.
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.
These are the first images that the Ortega dictatorship shows of Monsignor Álvarez, after confining him in “La Modelo”, including him in the list of more than 30 political prisoners still held captive in the different Nicaraguan prisons.
