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A group of paragliders badail several bishops and journalists after violently breaking into the Basilica of San Sebastian today, Monday, July 9, 2018, in the town of Diriamba (Nicaragua). Among the attackers are Nuncio Stanislaw Waldemar Sommertag, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes and Bishop Silvio Báez. The attack took place when the bishops traveled to Diriamba, 42 kilometers south of Managua, to release a group of Franciscan paramedics and missionaries besieged by the temple's parapolices. EFE / Jorge Torres
Managua, July 9.- The physical aggression that the bishops suffered in a basilica in the Nicaraguan town of Diriamba Monday caused consternation in the country and blurred the national dialogue with what should make it possible to overcome the crisis that left at least 320 victims in the Central American nation
In addition to this aggression against the Nicaraguan cardinal Leopoldo Brenes and the apostolic nuncio Stanislaw Waldemar Sommertag among others, executed by a parapolitic group similar to the government of the president Daniel Ortega a Catholic temple in the city of Jinotepe (Pacific) was desecrated by another group of paramilitaries
The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua mediator and witness of the national dialogue, suspended Monday the working tables created to overcome the crisis in the country because of the 9, physical aggression suffered by religious. [19659004] The episcopate had summoned to the verification and security table on Monday, as well as at the electoral table, but not to justice, to revive the dialogue, however, chose to postpone the two tables after the events of Diriamba
On Monday, a group of parapolices violently broke into the Basilica of San Sebastian, where they badaulted several bishops and journalists, including the Apostolic Nuncio, Cardinal Brenes and the Bishop Silvio Báez
The aggression took place when the bishops traveled to Diriamba, 42 kilometers south of Managua, to release a group of beleaguered Franciscan nurses and missionaries by the parapolices of the temple
. a delegation of the Catholic Church, accompanied by the Nicaraguan Association of Human Rights (ANPHD), entered the central square of Diriamba, whose basilica was surrounded by some 200 paramilitaries hooded es and parapolicías, as well as dozens of heavily armed police and some of them also with their faces covered.
Efe could verify that when the ecclesiastical delegation arrived at the place the uniformed agents disappeared to make room for hundreds of masked civilians. President Ortega
"We have felt this action, hard, strong and brutal against our priests.We have never seen anything like it in Nicaragua and it's really sad," said Brenes , also Archbishop of Managua, after a prayer that they made in the Metropolitan Cathedral
"We went to the parishes not to do violence, but to comfort our priests, to accompany them in suffering, however, we have received this aggression and we have all suffered for Christ, "said Brenes.
The episcopate also denounced that a Catholic temple in the city of Jinotepe (Pacific) was desecrated by a group of paramilitaries
"Today afternoon paramilitary forces desecrated the temple and attacked the priests Jalder Hernández and Eliseo Hernández, in the parish of Santiago in Jinotepe, May the Lord have pity on fools and fools! ", denounced the Episcopal Conference.
These two events are part of the wave of violence unleashed by acts of repression against the people who protests against President Ortega, who Meanwhile, Amnesty International (AI) denounced the joint action agents and self-defense groups to attack the Nicaraguan civil population including the bishops, in a repression "The vigilante groups are at their strongest armed, accompanied by police , committing attacks together against the civilian population, "criticized the director of the Americas AI, Erika Guevara. , in a written declaration sent to Efe
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Human Rights (Acnudh ) blamed the Ortega government for serious human rights violations.
The IACHR indicated "killings, extrajudicial executions, ill-treatment, possible acts of torture and arbitrary arrests. the vice-president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo argued that his government did not install terrorism, nor violence, nor death in that country.
"With what cynicism can one speak of destruction and torture as if it were the work of others and not their own work? With what cynicism?" Said the first lady in a message by the official media .
In a statement, the government announced that it will discuss a proposal for "democratization" presented in the dialogue, only if it is resolved in advance. "Very serious problem of terrorism" in the country.
The country of Central America is plunged into the most bloody socio-political crisis since the 1980s, with Ortega also as president. EFE
Besieged by an enraged mob who wanted to enter the Basilica of San Sebastián at Diriamba, I was wounded, beaten in the stomach, stolen episcopal insignia and verbally attacked . I'm doing well, thanks to God. The basilica was liberated and those who were there were released. pic.twitter.com/9qTgugBjic
– Silvio José Báez (@silviojbaez) July 9, 2018
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