Both priests and Catholic activists warned yesterday that the dictatorship had blocked different accounts in Managua, Matagalpa and Esteli. Sandinista authorities have demanded that Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes and the Episcopal Conference prove the movements of their bank accounts.
"This anomalous situation derives from the acts of treason committed by characters who, as politicians, have criminally violated all the legal, financial and social systems of the Nicaraguan State and people," the statement concludes. "We are seeing levels of religious persecution never seen before," says Juan Sebastián Chamorro, presidential candidate exiled to US.