Molina took the opportunity to remember that “more than 40 mechanisms of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment are practiced in Nicaraguan prisons, which were being used with priests. Now they are in freedom, with legal security that Rome will provide them.”
In a report published in 2021, Molina detailed the list of tortures suffered by prisoners in Nicaraguan prisons, such as suffocation with plastic bags, cells having 24-hour light to prevent them from sleeping, total isolation, beatings with barbed wire, among many others.
The researcher, who lives in exile, told EWTN Noticias that she also felt “some sadness because I know that their communities are very distressed because their spiritual leaders have left, and also because exile and these types of forced departures are always crimes. against humanity that the Ortega – Murillo dictatorship continues to commit, not only against the Catholic Church, but against all Nicaraguans.”