A leading congressional voice on human rights says he hopes a hearing highlighting the persecution of dissidents and Roman Catholic leaders by the regime of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega will lead to new, tougher moves by the Biden administration and Congress against the longtime leftist leader.
Rep. Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey Republican, said in an interview that the joint session of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on global human rights, which he chairs, and the panel’s Western Hemisphere subcommittee, chaired by Florida Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, is intended to focus new attention on what he said were the regime’s growing human rights abuses and its crackdown on the growing opposition to Mr. Ortega’s long rule.
The congressman, who said he first met Mr. Ortega in 1984 during the latter’s first stint running the Central American nation, said the president’s “complete commitment to dictatorship” is behind the attacks on political opponents and Catholic Church officials. Catholicism is the country’s majority religion.
In early February, the regime expelled the large group of dissidents and sent them to the United States, stripping them of their citizenship. Some, including Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez, refused exile and were jailed while also losing their citizenship. “The regime has closed Catholic radio stations and universities, obstructed access to places of worship, and even banned public Way of the Cross processions this year,” the statement said. “Bishops and priests, as well as worshipers, have been harassed and detained, and Mother Teresa’s order of nuns has been expelled. Political prisoners’ requests for Bibles have been cruelly denied.”
If a visit is blocked, he said, it would be good “if the International Committee of the Red Cross could get in and ascertain how well or poorly — and it’s probably the latter — [the bishop] and the others are being treated.”
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