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MEXICO CITY (OSV News) Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa has been released from prison and sent into exile along with 18 other churchmen who had been imprisoned as Nicaragua's government expelled its most prominent critic. Bishop Álvarez's presence behind bars bore witness to the Sandinista regime descent into totalitarianism, along with
Bishop Rolando Álvarez and the other clergy were jailed more than a year ago, in most cases, as part of a crackdown on the opposition and Catholic Church by President Daniel Ortega.
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