After a year and two months without answering the Brazilian president’s phone calls, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvathe dictator Daniel Ortega He lashed out at someone whom until recently he considered his friend and ally.
The Nicaraguan dictator used his speech to express his absolute support and solidarity with his counterpart Nicolas Maduro. Ortega, irritated, came to the defense of the Chavista and expressed his annoyance at the Brazilian president’s request for a repeat election in Venezuela.
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«The way you have behaved, Lula, in the face of the victory of the legitimate president of Venezuela (Nicolás Maduro), is shameful. Repeating the slogans of the Yankees, of the Europeans, of the crawling governments of Latin America, you are crawling “Lula too, and don’t tell me that your actions were extraordinary, but also remember the riots, the scandals, remember all that well,” Ortega spat out without detailing what “scandals” he was referring to.
Daniel Ortega’s fury against Lula da Silva has been dragging on since June 2023. The Brazilian declared that since that date the Sandinista withdrew his greeting due to his interest in mediating for the release of the then imprisoned bishop Monsignor Rolando Álvarez.
The Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC) organization, through its social media, reported that last week they recorded the deaths of Nicaraguan migrants Jarelys Sáenz Centeno and Rolando Varela Gómez, who resided in the United States.
Jarelys Sáenz Centeno, the organization explained, was originally from the Chagüite Grande community of El Ocote, Sébaco, Matagalpa. She had arrived in the United States three years ago and died this Sunday, August 25, in the morning, when she was in the apartment where she lived in Michigan, United States.
Nicaraguan migrant Rolando Varela Gómez, 41, died on August 21 and his family requested, through TNC, support to repatriate his body from Houston, United States.
Varela Gómez, one of his relatives confirmed to TNC, worked at a construction company in Houston and, on August 21, after feeling exhausted, decided to rest in his vehicle at around 3 p.m., but an hour later his colleagues found him without vital signs.
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He Pope Franciswho had not spoken out regarding the recent kidnappings and exile of a group of nine priests from the Dioceses of Matagalpa, Chontales and Estelí in Nicaragua by the dictatorship of Ortega and Murilloencouraged the “beloved” people of Nicaragua this Sunday to renew their “hope” in Jesus Christ.
“To the beloved people of Nicaragua, I encourage you to renew your hope in Jesus, remember that the Holy Spirit always guides history towards higher projects,” said the leader of the Catholic Church during the Sunday Angelus at the Cathedral of San Pedro in the Vatican.
Since 2018, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has promoted attacks, kidnappings, imprisonments and exile of bishops, priests, seminarians, religious congregations and lay people linked to the Church.
The repressive acts that have gained the greatest international relevance are those of bishops Silvio Báez and Rolando Álvarez, who have been strong critics of the government and in response have been exiled and denationalized by the Sandinistas.
