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Marco Rubio: “They've gone to war with the Catholic Church [in Nicaragua].”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Marco Rubio discusses Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti after Rick Scott's questions at hearing

Published | Video Starts at 03:53

It's a very weird situation, for lack of a better term. The Sandinistas earlier, one of the first things they did in the New year is they kicked out every nun in the country. They've gone to war with the Catholic Church [in Nicaragua]. which was the last institution in the country capable of standing up to them. But now they've begun this process of amending their fake constitution to basically create a family dynasty so that Ortega and his wife will now be co presidents. (03:53–03:56)

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Asserts that the Nicaraguan government is in conflict with the Catholic Church.

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