ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 22, 2025 / 16:02 pm

From his exile in the United States, Nicaraguan Bishop Silvio Báez denounced what he considered the “real problem” of Latin American dictatorships and cartels: the idolatry of money.

Although he did not mention specific countries in his homily at the Mass he celebrated Sunday, Sept. 21, at St. Agatha Church in Miami, the prelate was apparently referring to the dictatorships of presidents Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Miguel Díaz-Canel in Cuba, and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, the latter accused by the U.S. government of leading the drug-trafficking Cartel de los Soles.

Báez noted that one day, “all of us, without exception, will leave this world, and God will ask us to account for how we have used the wealth” and gifts he has given us. A

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