The Nicaraguan dictatorship has sent a Catholic bishop to jail for 26 years for treason after he refused to board a plane to take him into exile in the United States.
Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa was among 223 priests, seminarians and political activists to be offered sanctuary by Washington in a deal brokered with President Daniel Ortega.
The bishop refused to abandon the suffering Catholci people of his country and would not board the plane when he was driven to the runway from El Chipote, a notorious prison.
