Nicaragua, Brazil break diplomatic ties over crackdown on Church
August 09, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Nicaragua and Brazil have broken off diplomatic relations, in a dispute triggered by the Nicaraguan government’s campaign against the Catholic Church.
Nicaragua announced that the Brazilian ambassador had been expelled because he failed to attend a celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution in July. But Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told a different story, explaining that the conflict arose when he was asked by the Vatican to act as mediator, to help defuse the church-state conflict in Nicaragua.
The Brazilian leader said that when his mediating efforts proved fruitless, he directed his country’s ambassador not to attend the July ceremony. Nicaragua’s President Ortega then expelled the diplomat, and Lula followed suit, expelling the Nicaraguan ambassador to Brazil.
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