Murdered in Custody: The Ortega Regime Kills Another Indigenous Leader While the Neo-Church Preaches Trinitarian Platitudes
EWTN News reports that Brooklyn Rivera, an Indigenous leader and political prisoner held incommunicado for over 970 days by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship in Nicaragua, has died at age 73. The regime claims his death resulted from a bacterial infection following COVID-19, but family members and international observers denounce this as a state murder. Rivera’s daughter categorically rejected the regime’s statements, noting her father was in “optimal health” at the time of his detention and that the family was denied any independent access to him. The U.N. has documented over 112 cases of enforced disappearance in Nicaragua, with several prisoners dying under torture. While exiled Bishop Silvio Báez offered vague Trinitarian reflections about dictators being “far from God,” the article reveals the complete impotence—and complicity—of the post-conciliar Church in confronting real persecution and defending the rights of Christ the King over nations.

