Bishop Carlos Herrera, in charge of the Diocese of Jinotega and president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) since 2021, despite the persecution experienced by the Catholic Church in the country, broke the silence in the face of Ortega’s abuses and called the authorities of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, who placed loudspeakers outside the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista de Jinotega, where he was preparing to deliver the homily. Sunday morning, November 10.
«Before beginning this Eucharist, brothers, let us ask the Lord for forgiveness for our faults and forgiveness for those who do not respect the cult. “This is a sacrilege that the mayor (of Jinotega, Leónidas Centeno) and all the municipal authorities are doing,” Herrera stated before beginning the first prayer of the homily.
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The president of the CEN made it clear that he knows that his homilies are monitored by Ortega, telling the attendees to go “and tell them, (because) they know the time of the mass.”
Also, he instructed those attending the mass to support these activities, which are located outside the temple in clear disrespect for the homily, which is why he encouraged them to also ask for forgiveness for them.
“And we also support because after the mass we are going to see each other there, I think that in this we are all failing God, so let us ask forgiveness for them and for us,” concluded the bishop.
After several failures in trying to place its subjects in the position of secretary general of the Central American Integration System (SICA), the regime is betting on former foreign minister Denis Moncada to obtain the position. This would be the third shortlist of candidates presented. The previous two were rejected.
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In addition to Moncada, the trio is completed by Sandinista deputy Arling Patricia Alonso Gómez and the Minister of the Family, Johana Flores, according to the list sent by the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, Valdrack Jaentschke, to his colleagues from the SICA member states.
The General Secretariat of SICA has been vacant since in mid-November 2023, the Sandinista lawyer Werner Vargas was resigned by the regime from the position for the period 2022-2026, for which he was appointed as a proposal from Nicaragua.
Moncada has been within the Sandinista power circle, he is a figure that Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo consider loyal to their party structure. He has defended before the international community the violent and bloody actions of the presidential marriage.
The Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners, according to a press release released this week, added retired Colonel Víctor Boitano as political prisoner number 46, reported missing since April 24, after returning from Italy to Nicaragua. .
The organization said that Boitano’s inclusion on this list “reflects the state of terror that has led to self-censorship in Nicaraguan society, forcing many to remain silent in the face of arbitrariness.”
Boitano had returned to Nicaragua for ten months, after spending almost five years in Italy, a European country that also welcomed him as a national.
The former military man decided to return to Managua to reunite with his family and attend his daughter’s graduation. He had problems until April of this year, when at least 10 plainclothes police officers, according to independent media reports, came to take him out of his house.
Boitano was an Army colonel in the 80s. Although he contributed to the Sandinista Revolution, he made his political life with the liberals, even running in the 2011 elections as a deputy for the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN).
