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The priests of the Nicaraguan dictatorship

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Over the last six years, Daniel Ortega’s government has orchestrated a campaign of harassment, mass arrest, imprisonment, and exile of Nicaraguan clergy, and overseen the near wholesale confiscation of Church property and assets.



But, despite ushering in a new era of persecution against the local Catholic Church, the Nicaraguan dictatorship has successfully courted the support of at least some members of the clergy in the country.

While some of these priests are older priests who were involved in the Sandinista revolution in the 1970s that first took Daniel Ortega to power from 1979 to 1990, many were once staunch opponents of the regime, but seem to have had a change of heart — either now supporting it outright or staying silent about its human rights abuses and persecution of the Church.

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