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The U.S. Department of State over the weekend announced visa restrictions against dozens of Nicaraguan officials amid broad civil-liberties violations from the country’s government, including the seizure of a Jesuit university in the country’s capital city.
The newspaper La Prensa reported that in recent months the dictatorship of Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, has denied entry to Nicaragua “to more than half a dozen priests and lay people, most of them Nicaraguan citizens.”
On Aug. 9, the regime frozen the bank accounts of the Central American University, run by the Society of Jesus.
Molina explained that several retired priests reported that they had been notified that the transfer of the money was blocked.
The latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) evaluated by Transparency International placed Nicaragua as the most corrupt country in Central America.
CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, Molina noted that “the Political Constitution of Nicaragua prohibits confiscation, but it has already become a common practice under the dictatorship, just like in the 1980s.”
The parish held an act of reparation yesterday afternoon followed by the celebration of Holy Mass.
Molina is one of the most recognized investigators into the persecution suffered by the Church in Nicaragua.
The former presidential candidate said the release of the bishop of Matagalpa ‘is an obligation of all human rights defenders in any corner of planet Earth’ and that ‘it’s not just a religious matter.’
According to multiple media reports, the police in the city of Nandaime in southwestern Nicaragua arrested the reporter April 6.
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