Nicaragua says it released Bishop Rolando Álvarez, 18 priests from jail, handed them over to Vatican heraldonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the middle of the night, political leaders, priests, students and activists languishing inside Nicaragua s most notorious prisons were awoken, given the clothes they had been arrested in and told to dress. Hours later, 222 of them, widely considered political prisoners, landed at a Washington-area airport, deported from their own country.
Nicaraguan opposition leader Félix Maradiaga spent 20 months in prison for challenging dictator Daniel Ortega. He's 'even more resolved' to see democracy restored.