Nicaraguans respond to 'staged' prison interview with Bishop

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CC BY-SA 4.0)ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).The auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, who lives in exile in the United States, called the Daniel Ortega dictatorship's staging this weekend of a prison interview with Bishop Rolando Álvarez "repugnant and cynical."Álvarez was sentenced to 26 years and four months in prison on Feb. 10 as a "traitor to the homeland."El 19 Digital, a news outlet supportive of the dictatorship, released over the weekend photos and a video of Álvarez, the bishop of Matagalpa, who was visited by a brother and sister on March 25 in the prison known as La Modelo.In the images, the bishop is wearing his blue prisoner uniform in a clean room surrounded by white curtains and is seen eating with his siblings Vilma and Manuel Antonio at a round table.In the room there are also three blue armchairs with a coffee table and several potted plants."I wa...

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