Miguel Obando Bravo

Though the Comptroller initially went after Rivas, the political pact sealed between Ortega and the Magistrate's protector, Cardenal Miguel Obando y Bravo, extinguished the focus of tension. Later came the 2008 electoral fraud, documented by the opposition. “It would be enough to go to the Comptroller ...

HAVANA TIMES – Daniel Ortega called him “The Somocista chaplain” after Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo's “parable of the snake” homily, ... This week, twenty years after those verbal duels, Nicaragua has declared the cardinal a “national hero of reconciliation and peace” via a legal initiative presented ...

Nicaraguan Unrest Mirrors Venezuela ... Protests in Nicaragua against a proposed tax hike to finance the social security system have revealed the people's disgust with President Ortega's regime. ... His former enemy, the Archbishop of Managua Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, has become a close ally.