#Nicaragua: Bishop Alvarez imprisoned in a dungeon & What is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion
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#Nicaragua: Bishop Alvarez imprisoned in a dungeon & What is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/matagalpa-nicaragua-priest-father-rolando-alvarez-exile-detention-torture-isolation-daniel-ortega-rosario-murillo-36bf5426
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Bachelors. |
| 0:08.0 | Nicaragua, darkness visible these many years, but I go to a document thanks to the organization |
| 0:13.2 | of American States, the Inner American Commission on Human Rights, detailing that between April |
| 0:20.1 | of 2018 and July of 2019, the regime in Nicaragua murdered more than 300 people, 15 women, |
| 0:28.7 | 140 men of the total number of dead 27 were children or adolescents. That was then, this |
| 0:35.8 | is now, most recently, the Ortega-Mario regime, rather than murder people who had been thrown |
| 0:43.3 | into their dungeon. Those same, more than 200 were taken out of the dungeon, put it in |
| 0:48.3 | an airplane and sent away to the United States deprived of their nationality. One man refused |
| 0:54.2 | to go. He is the Romacastic Bishop of Montagalpa, his name is Orlando Alvarez. He is now, we're |
| 1:01.0 | told, in that dungeon, what is to be done? I welcome Mary Anastasia O'Grady who reports |
| 1:07.0 | these details in her column in the Wall Street Journal editorial page. Mary, a very good |
| 1:11.9 | evening to you. What do we need to know about Orlando Alvarez standing as one man up against |
| 1:17.2 | a brutal regime? Good evening to you. |
| 1:19.9 | Well, good evening, John. On some level, I would say that Bishop Alvarez is nothing special. |
| 1:26.0 | He is a, if you read about his past, he is a man who, as a young man, decided that he |
| 1:32.9 | wanted to be a priest, studied in the seminary, very dedicated to his flock, and has been |
| 1:40.3 | watching the slow tightening grip by Daniel Ortega, a famous Sandinista, most Americans |
| 1:48.2 | know of him because of his toppling Samosa in 1979 and being the dictator in the Caragua |
| 1:55.3 | for 10 years until the Aleta Tramoda challenged him and won an election and became the president |
| 2:05.0 | in 1990. Daniel Ortega came back in 2007. He won an election in 2006, took office in 2007, |
| 2:15.1 | and has never left. Bishop Alvarez has been speaking from the pulpit in favor of tolerance |
| 2:22.9 | peace against the abuses of the government, with the repression practiced by Daniel Ortega |
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