Daniel Ortega punishes Bishop Álvarez with a cell full of prisoners after refusing to be exiled to the US

• Latin America The Nicaraguan dictatorship exiles more than 200 political prisoners to the US

• Nicaragua Daniel Ortega: "This summit does not interest anyone, rather it dirty"

Daniel Ortega

appeared tonight in

to give the official version of the largest exile of political prisoners in the history of Latin America.

The Sandinista leader acknowledged that the rebel bishop of

Monsignor

refused to be sent to the

"The one who did not want to get on the plane was the character Álvarez. He was lining up and when he got to the stairs

that he would first have to talk to the bishops. An absurd thing, the decision was of the State, he couldn't question it," staged Ortega, always with the help of his wife

in prompting mode.

The Nicaraguan president tried to discredit the Catholic bishop by pointing out the accusations against priests for sexual abuse.

"They even

he said.

"I was imprisoned for seven years and a month and I have never known the story of a prisoner treated like this man. Now he is in the

Arrogant behavior of someone who considers himself the leader of the Latin American church. He is deranged, on the verge of run for the post of Pope", insulted the dictator, who throughout his speech did not mention

who during the war against the Somoza dictatorship led several operations to free the guerrilla leader.

Téllez traveled to

after suffering mistreatment and inhumane prison conditions for 19 months.

The revolutionary leader also accused the bishop of acting like an "energumen", incapable of having "the courage of

who endured the crucifixion", after not accepting "that they put him in a cell with hundreds of prisoners. But since he was held in his house and special meals were made for him every day, his sisters came to cook for him in a mansion.

said.

The Bishop of Matagalpa remained under house arrest, awaiting the trial that will begin next week.

Last year he suffered an illegal arrest for four months, during which he was kept kidnapped in a clandestine house.

The Sandinista leader repeatedly denied that it was a negotiation with the US, but rather "a problem of principle. We are not asking for the sanctions to be lifted, we are not asking for anything in return."

What's more, according to his speech, it was an occurrence this week, when "Rosario told me why don't we tell the US ambassador to

These people are victims of imperialist policy, the they use, finance and arm. And then they send them to look for how to destroy the peace of a country".

According to Ortega, his wife called the ambassador and raised it with him.

After the first positive response, they

which was eventually reduced to 222. After an "extraordinary operation" (the transfer of the prisoners by bus to the foot of the plane), the plane took off for the freedom.

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