A local expert said that the country’s dictatorship dwelt another blow to the Church.
By Catholics for Catholics
Nicaraguan authorities confiscated an iconic Catholic School located close to the capital of the country, accusing the learning center of being a place where “coup-plotters tortured and murdered.”
Nicaragua is now under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his “co-president” wife, Rosario Murillo. On August 12, authorities confiscated San José Catholic School, located in the city of Jinotepe.
“That school has been transferred to the state because it is emblematic of barbarism,” said Murillo, according to the National Catholic Register. “But at the same time of the dignified and victorious struggle, in this case we in the Jinotepe family [community] who defeated the coup attempt.”
According to The Register, Murrillo made the statement via a media outlet aligned with the dictatorship.
Murillo said, “we have a new education center. This is an achievement of the peace we are experiencing, that we safeguard, that we deserve. In Jinotepe, a school where the coup-plotters tortured and murdered comrades during the criminal occupation, and where did these crimes occur? Unfortunately, at San José School.”
“It will bear the name, now in the hands of the Nicaraguan state, of the hero, the martyr comrade Bismarck Martínez,” whose “murder shocked the entire country” in 2018.
The Register reported that Martínez was a Sandinista sympathizer who disappeared on June 29, 2018, when he drove near the Catholic school in Jinotepe. He was allegedly “kidnapped, tortured, and disappeared.”
The Nicaraguan regime has made Martínez a martyr to “reinforce its narrative” about the alleged “coup d’état,” the newspaper Confidencial said.
“The dictatorship has once again dealt a severe blow to the Catholic Church by confiscating the San José School, run by the Josephine nuns,” which has provided a good education to many Nicaraguans since the 1980s, said Martha Patricia Molina, researcher and author of the report “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church.”
“The confiscation will have a negative impact on the children and young people who received a quality education and will now be indoctrinated by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship. In addition to confiscating the nuns’ property, co-dictator Rosario Murillo calls them murderers and torturers,” Molina said.
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