Global Courant 2023-05-29 11:06:16
Since his fraudulent re-election in November 2021, without opposition parties, with the citizenry frightened by the violence of official hordes and without any shyness about his sadistic despotism, the duo that governs Nicaragua exudes more and more despair, more fear and more uncertainty about his continuation in power. Subjugating —and, of course, betraying— their people, by blood and fire since 2018, the dictator Daniel Ortega and the deputy dictator Rosario Murillo are in a countdown whose number they do not know, but it is underway.
Under the totalitarian influence of its allies, Russia, China, Venezuela and Cuba, the regime launched an unprecedented offensive against the Catholic Church, bishops, priests and laity two years ago. The ecclesiastical mission of announcing and denouncing causes irritation to the tropical pseudo-monarchs, whose only emblem is repression with violence, jail or exile: resources that lag behind, but do not stop the inexorable final fall of the iniquitous regime.
From a purely Christian perspective, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo almost cause compassion for the destiny they carve for themselves. His pseudo-religious appeals are devoid of coherence and at the same time are blasphemy for all believers, Catholic or non-Catholic, simply because God is infinitely loving but also infinitely just. The mortal victims of his regime cry out for justice from the ground and the myriads of exiles will come to see the return to a free Nicaragua. Unfortunately, you have to go through this purgatory, this persecution that evokes so many others that have occurred over two thousand years. The most recent repressive measure is the freezing of accounts of three dioceses, under accusations of money laundering.
If he cared about money laundering, Ortega would not have welcomed Central American fugitives for corruption cases, with all their capital, such as the Guatemalan Gustavo Herrera, accused of IGSS fraud, or former Salvadoran presidents such as Salvador Sánchez or Mauricio Funes, accused of embezzlement. The three were nationalized Nicaraguans: quite a paradox if one observes the “withdrawal” of nationality from 92 Nicaraguan opponents, last February, among politicians, journalists, students and former Sandinista coreligionists.
There were signs of Ortega’s heinous purposes, but many parties refused to acknowledge him until it was too late. It also happened to business organizations that were banned in 2022. No religious denomination should remain indifferent to the repression against Christians in this Central American country.
In the year 355, Julian II began to rule a decadent Roman empire and to stay in power he blamed many evils on the Christians, whom he persecuted. He used a mystical discourse, with divine allusions, but it was more a manipulation tool than a coherent belief. He resented being questioned by court officials and Christian bishops. He promised to do away with the Church, so he closed churches, banished worshipers, and forbade Christian children from being accepted into schools. Any resemblance to reality is pure historical parallel, not only of that despot, but of successive warlords with feet of clay. Julian II died in 361 from a wound from a javelin that was possibly thrown by someone from his own army. He prays a tradition that, in his agony, his last words were addressed to Christ: “You conquered, Galileo!”.
Ortega’s despotism besieges the Church
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