closure of its university in Nicaragua
In a letter sent to the order’s Central American leader, Father Antonio Sosa said the government’s accusations against the prestigious university were “totally false” and part of a wider government program of “slander” against those defending freedom.The United States has condemned the confiscation of the assets of the Central American University as a further erosion of democracy.
“We know that all of the accusations against UCA are totally false and without any foundation whatsoever,” Sosa wrote in the letter to Father Jose Domingo Cuesta, the order’s regional superior for Central America. The government’s action against UCA, other Catholic institutions and civic organisations, was aimed at “suffocating, closing or appropriating them”, Sosa said.