Daniel Ortega’s ongoing repressions demand a global response on a much larger, and louder, scale.
Advertisementas “an ongoing sociopolitical crisis [that] began in April 2018 when regime-controlled police violently crushed a peaceful student protest.” Since those crackdowns, the government has gone on to kill at least 325 people, imprison hundreds, injure thousands and exile more than 100,000.. Five hundred of the regime’s officials, including Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, have been declared persona non grata. But the repressions continue.
Ortega’s attempt to extinguish Catholicism in Nicaragua merits world condemnation on a much larger, and louder, scale. As the president of a Catholic university, I am especially eager to rally university leaders in opposition to this persecution. But leaders from all walks of life should be condemning Ortega in the harshest terms. His regime should be isolated as an international pariah for trying to “disappear” Catholicism, freedom of worship and free speech.
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