Nicaragua proposes to suspend diplomatic relations with the Vatican

The Nicaraguan government said this Sunday that it was proposed to “suspend diplomatic relations” with the Vatican City state after Pope Francis called Daniel Ortega’s regime a “brute dictatorship.”

“Given the information that has been disclosed by sources allegedly associated with the Catholic Church, the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of our Nicaraguablessed and always free, requires the state to enter Vatican and Republic Nicaragua It was proposed to suspend diplomatic relations, ”the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry said in a press release.

Pope Francis described the regime as a “brute dictatorship” Daniel Ortega V Nicaraguaa month after Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Alvarez was sentenced to 26 years and 4 months in prison, according to an interview released last Friday.

“With great respect, I have no choice but to think about the imbalance in the person who leads (Daniel Ortega). We have a bishop in prison there, a very serious man, very capable. He wanted to testify and did not agree to be expelled,” Francisco told the Argentinean portal Infobae from his residence in Santa Marta, in the city Vaticanon the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his papacy.

Document Nicaragua noted this Sunday, “how the media associated with the terrorist coup that attacked and killed the Nicaraguan people in April 2018 were the ones who spread this distorted news, which is known as fake news in our time,” referring to the fact that there had already been a break in diplomatic relations.

“Another one on your account,” the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry warned.

Closing of the diplomatic headquarters

Vatican sources explained to EFE that Nicaragua appealed to the Holy See with a request to close the corresponding diplomatic headquarters, although there is still no break in diplomatic relations.

They specified that the request was for the closure of both the nunciature, the representation of the Vatican in the country of Central America, and the Nicaraguan embassy to the Holy See.

Although this would be the first step towards a complete break in diplomatic relations, which has not yet happened.

Nicaragua has not had an ambassador to the Holy See since September 21, 2021, when Daniel Ortega canceled the appointment of Ellietta Ortega Sotomayor and has only a negotiating adviser to the minister.

Similarly, last March the government also expelled Apostolic Nuncio Monsignor Valdemar Stanislaw Sommertag, and Monsignor Mbaye Diouf, Secretary of the Nunciature, heads the diplomatic mission of the Vatican.

February 21 Daniel Ortega He called the church a “mafia” and accused it of being undemocratic for preventing Catholics from directly electing the pope, cardinals, bishops and priests.

(As reported by EFE)

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