Nicaragua severed diplomatic relations with the Vatican
- March 12, 2023
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has ordered the closure of the Vatican’s embassy in Managua and the Nicaraguan embassy to the Vatican in Rome, a senior Vatican source told
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has ordered the closure of the Vatican’s embassy in Managua and the Nicaraguan embassy to the Vatican in Rome, a senior Vatican source told the agency on Sunday. Reuters.
Nicaragua noted that this measure, taken a few days after Pope Francis Compares Nicaraguan Government to a Dictatorshipit was a suspension of diplomatic relations.
A source in the Vatican said that although the closure does not automatically mean a complete severance of relations between Managua and The Holy Seeare serious steps towards this possibility.
Administration of Ortegaa has become increasingly isolated internationally since it began cracking down on dissent following street protests that erupted in 2018. Ortega called the protests a coup attempt against his government.
He Bishop Rolando Alvareza critic of Ortega, was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison in Nicaragua last month on charges including treason, undermining national integrity and spreading false news.
Alvarez was sentenced for refusing to leave the country along with 200 political prisoners released by the Ortega government and sent to the United States. Alvarez refused to board the plane.
In an interview published on Friday with the Latin American online news outlet information Ahead of the 10th anniversary of his pontificate on Monday, the pope referred to Alvarez’s imprisonment and compared what is happening in Nicaragua to “the communist dictatorship of 1917 or Hitler’s dictatorship of 1935.”
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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