Daniel Ortega Rosario Murillo are the main instigators of hatred against the Church in Nicaragua and those who have ordered all the repressive actions against religious institutions in the country, involving several State institutions and therefore, they are the perpetrators of “crimes against humanity” against religion, according to the most recent report of the Group of Experts on Human Rights on Nicaragua (GHREN), of the United Nations Organization (UN).
The update of the report, in the second phase of investigations carried out by the GHREN, is forceful and direct in devoting an entire section to describing how Ortega and his wife, since 2018, have maintained a hate speech in which they incite “discrimination, hostility and violence” against religious institutions and their members.
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Likewise, experts from the UN They detail all the violations that the Ortega-Murillo regime has systematically, intentionally and plannedly committed against religious practice in Nicaragua.
Among the most recurrent violations of religious freedom, documented by GHREN, are threats, harassment, physical attacks, arbitrary detention, violations of the right to due process and a fair trial, arbitrary deprivation of nationality of at least 22 religious figures, and violations of the right to freedom of movement.
Research reveals that the Nicaraguan dictatorshipBetween April 2018 and March 2024, the UN carried out 73 arbitrary arrests of members of the Catholic Church and other Christian religions, of which 69 were men and 4 were women.
“Among those arrested were priests, pastors and members of evangelical churches, seminarians, lay people who carried out journalistic and/or artistic work in defense of human rights in religious organizations and parishioners,” the report says.
In addition, several evangelical pastors were victims of harassment and intimidation by the Sandinista Police. In October 2022, on the South Caribbean Coast, uniformed officers threatened to kill a pastor and demanded that he close the church, after the words he spoke during a sermon were misinterpreted, the document explains.
Venezuela will conclude a troubled electoral process next Sunday, July 28, with the votes that will decide on the continuity of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro or a turn in favor of the opposition led by candidate Edmundo González with the support of Maria Corina Machado.
The leftist president of the so-called “South American power”, as it is the largest economy in the region, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvahas already made it clear that he leans towards the line of democracy and advised his ideological counterpart Maduro that if he loses the elections he should go home.
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For their part, dictator Ortega and his wife, vice-dictator Rosario Murillo, made public a letter sent to Maduro in which they expressed their full support. Morales did his part.
«We are sure that this will be a victory for all Latin American and Caribbean peoples.“, the Nicaraguan regime anticipates to its Venezuelan counterpart.
