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Faith Behind Bars in Nicaragua

An editorial by La Estrella de Panamá

HAVANA TIMES – Holy Saturday is, in tradition, a day of silence and waiting. However, in the geography of Central America, that silence has ceased to be an act of devotion and has become an imposition of force.

While in Panama we reflect on hope, in Nicaragua the regime of Daniel Ortega has sealed the doors of churches, forbidding faith from walking through the streets and deploying an army of fourteen thousand agents to guard fear.

This assault on Holy Week in Nicaragua is irrefutable proof of a........

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