Nicaragua: More than 700 academics condemn the closure of the Jesuit University
More than 700 professors, authors and researchers from academic centers in Latin America, the United States, Canada, Europe and Africa on Monday condemned the closure and confiscation of the Jesuit Central American University of Nicaragua (UCA) by Daniel Ortega’s government last month.
In a public letter to the press, the 728 signatories “strongly opposed the campaign of harassment and criminalization” that culminated “in the closure and confiscation” of the UCA, ordered by the Sandinista government on August 16 and thus made a state went to university after being accused of being “a center of terrorism”.
The scholars emphasized that UCA, the first private university founded in Central America in 1960, “trained thousands of professionals in various disciplines and specialties”, also “maintained a sustained projection and social commitment” and encouraged important scientific investigation”.
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