No Let Up From Ortega During Holy Week: Priest Expelled, Traditions Banned in Nicaragua

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 5, 2023 / 15:20 pm The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, hasn’t declared a truce in its persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, not even during Holy Week.

Félix Maradiaga, a former political prisoner and also a former presidential candidate who was deported to the United States, told ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, that the dictatorship expelled Panamanian priest Father Donaciano Alarcón from the country on Monday of Holy Week.

“They took him over the Honduran border. His ‘crime’ was that at Mass he prayed for the release of Bishop [Rolando] Álvarez,” Maradiaga said.

Alarcón, who worked at Mary Help of Christians Parish in the town of San José de Cusmapa in the Diocese of Estelí, was arrested by the police after celebrating Mass.

Álvarez, the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Estelí and the bishop of Matagalpa, was sentenced in February to 26 years and four months in prison, unjustly accused of treason.

Since there was no news of his whereabouts for 40 days after he was sentenced, the regime showed him at the end of March eating and talking with his siblings in the “La Modelo” prison in a staged scene that was described as “repugnant and cynical” by the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, who lives in exile in the United States.

The Communications and Press Office of the Archdiocese of Panama reported that Father Alarcón “is well and safe after his expulsion from Nicaragua.”

The priest met in Honduras with Father Ismael Montero Toyos, superior of the Central American Claretians, who spoke about Alarcón’s situation “and the missionaries who are still in Nicaraguan territory, most of them foreigners.”

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“The people signed up for him. Fine by me.”

Not exactly. Ortega was a revolutionary in the same vein as Castro and Chavez. He had all the popular lines that convinced the people to elect him the first time, but then he lost several later elections. In 2006 he was again “elected”, with Hugo Chavez’ help and with only 38% of the vote. He vowed to not lose again, and began consolidating his power.

Hugo Chavez, as most Americans are unaware, was the originator of the Dominion voting machine system. He had the machines designed specifically for election fraud, and are what the Democrats push in the US now. Ortega uses Dominion systems and hasn’t lost an election since.

The Nicaraguan people for the most part do not like Ortega, but he keeps them in line with fear and suspicion. My wife and I have acquaintances in Nicaragua, and have been there a few times. The people are friendly and accomodating, but they WILL NOT talk politics. People are afraid of the police, and everyone is suspicious of their neighbors and even their own family. The sight of a police patrol usually means someone is about to disappear. Everyone is terrified that someone will denounce them to the police for saying something politically incorrect. But they have very low crime rates and almost no gang problems because such things are dealt with very harshly.

Nicaragua is a good example of the Socialist Paradise the Democrats have in mind for all of us in the US.

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