Posted on 04/02/2023 12:43:48 AM PDT by Cronos
The Catholic Church has been an enduring symbol of Nicaragua’s resistance to the regime of President Daniel Ortega since 2018. Consequently, the institution’s peaceful defiance has firmly placed church leaders and the faithful in Ortega’s crosshairs.
Tensions escalated between the Catholic Church and Ortega on March 18, when the Vatican closed its embassy in Managua. Earlier that week, Ortega had lashed out at Pope Francis, who compared the president’s administration to a Nazi dictatorship during an interview with Argentine news organization Infobae.
Ortega denounced Catholic leaders sympathetic to the opposition as “terrorists” and called the Catholic Church a “mafia.”
The pope’s remarks were in response to more than 400 attacks over the past five years against the Catholic Church, and its priests, bishops, and parishioners. ... “The Catholic Church is the last, the loudest voice against his regime,” Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) said during a March 22 subcommittee hearing
In 2020, one of Ortega’s agents threw a bomb into a cathedral in Managua, destroying a 400-year-old sacred icon of Christ.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Ortega is a former Sandinista revolutionary who helped end the Somoza family’s 44-year rule in 1979. He then ushered in a new era of extreme leftist rule via the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) with the support of Cuba and Russia.
“The FSLN was actually founded and organized in Cuba,” regional analyst and author Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat told The Epoch Times. “These totalitarian regimes see Catholic[s] … as the true spiritual and philosophical opposition to their designs.”
As a kid it seems like I remember Ortega’s name surfacing endlessly in news cycles during the Reagan Administration.
>> Ortega denounced Catholic leaders sympathetic to the opposition as “terrorists” and called the Catholic Church a “mafia.”
Ortega is a ground-breaking template for language you will very soon hear out of the “Biden” deep state cabal regarding American Christians.
In fact, you are ALREADY hearing such language out of their official proxies: “educators”, the transgender hate machine, Blakkk Lives Matter, the Gramscian Marxist academy, etc. etc.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=christofascist
But inflammatory anti-Christian hate speech will soon some officially out of the mouth of Jao Beiden himself, possibly in another eerie red-lit ceremony with two Marines standing at attention at the rear.
Yes, he is still a communist. 😆
And Ortega, Madoeo et all are backed by Commie Putin from Moscow, and Xi from Beijing.
Don’t forget, the dems supported him in the 80’s and made it illegal for Reagan to help the contra freedom fighters. Hence Iran Contra.
These are the ones given concierge services and let into the country with no tracking
Anyone see a problem here?
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Some of these can be a problem, but I believe that some are just fleeing repressive regimes.
And Biden and Kerry were defending the communists then, too. The Dems came up with the Boland Amendment to protect the communists.
The Sandinistas were helping Palestinian terrorists hijack airliners back then, too.
SEPTEMBER 6, 1970 : (UK : FOURTH ATTEMPTED HIJACKING OF AN ISRAELI EL AL AIRLINER FAILS : ONE HIJACKER, NICARAGUAN SANDINISTA PATRICK ARGUELLO RYAN KILLED, THE OTHER, PALESTINIAN TERRORIST LEILA KHALED, IS CAPTURED WHEN PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING IN LONDON) On September 6, 1970, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked three airplanes to free captured members and bring attention to their cause. The hostage crisis on an abandoned airstrip in Jordan captured world attention. That same day, a fourth attempted hijack of an Israeli El Al flight failed. The male hijacker was killed, and the female hijacker was taken into custody by British authorities when the Israeli plane made an emergency landing in London. She was identified as Leila Khaled, a Palestinian guerrilla famous for a previous hijacking in 1969. The slain hijacker was later identified as Patrick Arguello Ryan, a 27-year-old man of Nicaraguan-American background. Questions abounded: Who was he and how did he come to be involved with the Palestinians? Many assumed he was merely a radical embracing a revolutionary cause, a leftist student like so many of that era. Some called him an internationalist hero like Che Guevara, while others called him a cold-blooded terrorist like Carlos the Jackal. The truth about Patrick Arguello is far more complex. Patrick was a member of Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front. He died in an obscure chapter of Sandinista history: their 1970 collaboration with Palestinian guerrillas. - http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/1544.html
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