2023-08-16 19:00:02
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Jesuit Central American University of Nicaragua announced Wednesday the confiscation of all its real estate and assets by the government of Daniel Ortega for “unfounded allegations” that the university “functioned as a center of terrorism ”.
In a statement addressed to the university community, the UCA indicated that on Tuesday it received a judicial document in which it was notified “the seizure of real estate, furniture, money in national or foreign currency” from bank accounts that were “immobilized”, as well as “financial products in national or foreign currency.”
The judicial document ordered that the seizure be “in favor of the State of Nicaragua,” added the statement from the UCA, considered the most important and prestigious private university in the country.
The Nicaraguan government has not yet confirmed the measure, which takes place in the midst of an attack once morest the Catholic Church following the closure of various religious organizations and media outlets and the imprisonment of the Bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, locked up in a prison. from Managua since February following refusing to be deported to the United States along with 222 other released opponents.
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