The priests of the Nicaraguan dictatorship

How has Ortega achieved the tacit - or even public - support of a handful of local priests?

Over the last six years, Daniel Ortega’s government has orchestrated a campaign of harassment, mass arrest, imprisonment, and exile of Nicaraguan clergy, and overseen the near wholesale confiscation of Church property and assets.

But, despite ushering in a new era of persecution against the local Catholic Church, the Nicaraguan dictatorship has successfu…