NBC News published this video item, entitled “Pope Francis calls Nicaragua government ‘gross dictatorship’ amid Catholic church crackdown” – below is their description.
In an interview with Argentina media, Pope Francis called Nicaragua’s government a “gross dictatorship” and compared it with Nazi and Communist regimes amid a crackdown on the Catholic Church in the Central American country.
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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.
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Nicaragua, set between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, is a Central American nation known for its dramatic terrain of lakes, volcanoes and beaches. Vast Lake Managua and the iconic stratovolcano Momotombo sit north of the capital Managua. To its south is Granada, noted for its Spanish colonial architecture and an archipelago of navigable islets rich in tropical bird life.