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At least five people were killed in a protest march to demand the departure of President Daniel Ortega during a wave of violence that claimed more than 260 lives in nearly three months. Four policemen and one civilian were killed in a clash in Morrito, when a protest approached the police command of the municipality, 230 km southeast of Mangua, according to the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights. Man (Cenidh)
. opponents marched to demand the departure of Ortega, defying the fear of repression and the intensification of violence.
"Not a step back!", "Justia!", "Go-t!" shouted the crowd of blue and white, who progressed smoothly on his seven-kilometer route through strategic avenues southeast of the capital. Rainfall on a stretch of the road did not drive the protesters.
Carolina Aguilar, 52, said she was walking because she was "tired of a government that kills with impunity". "We can not live with a murderer, with a scorpion that kills us day after day, I would give my blood for it to end, if he wants to kill me, but let people be released," said the AFP
opposition Aliana Civica for Justice and Democracy, which overthrows civil society groups, intensified the protest under pressure, which included a national strike on Friday (the second during the crisis) and a caravan Saturday in the fighting areas of Mangua.
The protests began on April 18 against the pension reform, but they claimed the power of Ortega, who has ruled since 2007 for the third time in a row, and who has accused of creating a dictatorship with his wife and his vice-president. "We know … that the terrorist intentions of a small group of stubborn Nicaraguans in the dio … would not prosper, prosper and prosper," said Murillo. intensified in recent weeks the operations in which
– "Take Ortega" –
In order to respond to the strategy of the opposition, the government will launch an appeal on Friday, the day of the strike, to demand the end of the violence. "Retreat", a caravan that Ortega is currently leading to Masaya, 30 kilometers south of Mangua, to recall a gesture of the Sandinista revolution of 1979.
Government announcement puts on alert the fierce Indian district of Monimb, in the south of Masaya, where its inhabitants remain entrenched behind large stone barriers.
"I will never enter unless killing everyone," said AFP in one of these barricades a man with a covered face,
Ortega, a 72-year-old former Sandinista guerrilla who fought in the popular uprising to overthrow the dictator Anastasio Somoza, intensified in recent days operations in which the police and paramilitaries overturn the blockade of the roads, registering violence.
"We show the regime that we are not afraid, we take Somoza and we will take Ortega, we have to take it because this man shot the people who elected him", said Fernando Callejas, a 67-year-old doctor. one day before the march, the executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Paulo Abro, asked the government to report to the OAS Permanent Council in Washington to "guarantee peaceful protests "and" put an end to repression "
The Ortega government considers opposition protesters to be" criminals "," putschists "and" terrorists ".
– Dilogo: the way –
To find a crisis, the Church proposed to anticipate the elections from 2021 to 2019 at the negotiating table between the government and Civic Aliana.
After Ortega's refusal and a violent raid by police and paramilitaries on Sunday in the cities of Diriamba and Jinotepe, in the south-west of the country, which left 20 dead, the church has questioned the continuity of the dialogue.
But on Tuesday she decided to remain a mediator of the talks, including after an badault on Monday by a group of bishops and priests, with the group of pre-government groups in Catholic churches
. Vatican announced on Thursday that it would not formally protest against the Nicaraguan government after the attack on its apostolic novice, Stanislaw Waldemar Sommertag, who led the mission with Nicaraguan cardinal Leopoldo Brenes
. The Nicaraguan Bishops announced that they would convene plenary sessions in the coming days because they considered that the only dialogue was to resolve the severe crisis, which also caused a brutal and huge drop in the number of people in the country. economy of this country of the Americas.
US legislators approved Thursday a bipartisan resolution condemning the repression of the government of Daniel Ortega.
The text, unanimously adopted by the House Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of the Western Hemisphere, is to be considered by the Committee on Foreign Relations and possibly referred to the Plenary Meeting. the lower chamber. Ortega, supports the Nicaraguan people in their quest for democracy and calls for more sanctions from the United States, "said the chairman of the subcommittee, Rep Paul Cook, after the vote.
The Permanent Council of the OAS (19659002) The meeting, to be held at the OAS headquarters in Washington at 14:00 (18:00 GMT), was convened at the request of Argentina, Canada , Chile, the United States and the United States Peru "for the purpose of considering developments in the Republic of Nicaragua," said the OAS on its website
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