Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship has severed relations with the Vatican after statements by Pope Francis

The dictator Daniel Ortega ordered the severance of diplomatic relations with the Vatican after the strong declarations of dad francisco A GlobeLiveMedialast Friday, during which describes the Sandinista regime as a crude dictatorship.

As confirmed CONFIDENTIALthe site of the exiled journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro The decision was taken a few hours after the publication of the interview in which, in addition, compared the Nicaraguan government to a “Hitlerian dictatorship”.

According to the media, the representative of the Sandinista regime to the Holy See “verbally communicated” the severance of relations within the Vatican Secretariat of State.

He dad francisco was powerful during the long interview published last Friday in GlobeLiveMedia. According to him, the Nicaraguan regime has become a crude dictatorship. “With great respect, I have no choice but to think of an imbalance in the person who leads (Ortega). Here we have a bishop in prison, a very serious, very able man. He wanted to give his testimony and did not accept exile,” Francis said from his residence in Santa Marta, the Vatican, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his papacy.

Francis talked about Archbishop Rolando Alvarez, bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the diocese of Estelí, both located in northern Nicaragua, who was sentenced a month ago to more than 26 years in prison for crimes considered “treason” and a day after refusing to be exiled by the Ortega government to United States territory.

Monsignor Álvarez refused to board the plane that would take him, along with 222 other freed Nicaraguan political prisoners, all opponents, to the United States, which angered Ortega, who called him “arrogant “, of “crazy” and of “energúmeno”. “.

In his analysis, Francisco added: “It is something that is outside of what we live, It’s as if he brought the communist dictatorship of 1917 or the Hitler dictatorship of 1935, bringing the same here… It’s a type of crude dictatorships. Or, to use a nice Argentinian distinction, the guarangas”.

His statements, eagerly awaited by clerics and activists, have received many signs of support.

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