ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 18, 2023 / 16:30 pm
The superior general of the Jesuits, Father Arturo Sosa, condemned the confiscation this week of the Central American University (UCA) by the Daniel Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua, denouncing the measure as “unjust” and detrimental to the country.
The expropriation of the assets of the UCA, considered one of the main private educational institutions in the country and whose closure has left more than 9,500 students without access to education, was strongly criticized both nationally and internationally.
Sosa expressed his consternation over the situation in a letter also posted on X addressed to the provincial curia of Central America in San Salvador, headed by Father José Domingo Cuesta, SJ. In his statement, issued on Aug. 17 from Rome, Sosa expressed his “great surprise and greater pain for the consequences for the youth and for the entire people of Nicaragua.”
The superior general of the Jesuits denounced the confiscation and expressed his solidarity with the UCA, its directors, and its teaching and administrative staff.