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Police resumed control of Monimb's native district in Masaya on Tuesday, ending the last rebel homestead in this southern Nicaraguan town, symbol of the popular movement against President Daniel Ortega
"Today was Monimb, in Masaya, who is now freed from blockages and has released the streets so that the population can move freely, "said the government on the official website El 19 Digital
" Today, this historic district celebrates its freedom, after Masaya was the target of a fierce attack by the combined forces of the Ortega government headed to Monimb, symbol of the demonstrations that killed 280 people in three months in Nicaragua.According to its inhabitants, heavily armed men of machine guns fired on this town of 100,000 inhabitants, located 30 kilometers south of the capital.
At least two people died in the attack, "a woman and
"They unleashed a blind attack on people, invaded homes, knocked down doors, took people away and threw their belongings on the street.
An AFP team tried to enter the city, but it could not pbad because the roads were blocked by riot police and paramilitaries who are arrived in 37 trucks and surrounded Masaya, "added Nez, adding that there were at least 40 arrests.
" The bullets hit the church of Mara Magdalena, where the priest takes refuge ", He writes in the newspaper.
The church bells are ringing as guns of different caliber are heard from all sides of Masaya Twitter Auxiliary Archbishop of Mangua, Silvio Bez, while the international community has intensified his calls to Ortega to stop the violence.
"This irresponsibly tends the houses, the message that is you put your head out, they kill you, a message of terror," said Alvaro Leiva, secretary of the 39: Nicaraguan Association of Human Rights (ANPDH) [19] 659003] "With all my human and spiritual strength, I make a so-called consciousness of all.
United States Under-Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Francisco Palmieri, "energetically" urged President Ortega not to attack Masaya.
Masaya was the last stage of the so-called "clean-up operation" that police and paramilitary forces began a few weeks ago.
"The continuing violence and bloodshed promoted by the Nicaraguan government must stop immediately. back to clear the streets, blocked by protesters demanding the departure of Ortega, a 72-year-old former guerrilla who has ruled since 2007.
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The operation of this tera, which used snipers, focused on Monimb, where the population had erected barricades of up to two meters
"This attacking us with weapons of great caliber, one of the strongest attacks "
The young people of Monimb with the people of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and their families. faces covered with shirts protected themselves from blows fired by the trenches, ready to die for a "free Nicaraguan".
"Ortega is conducting a criminal war against his people," condemned the president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), Vilma Nez.
The city of Masaya is located in the city of Masaya. said in the rebellion since they began April 18, protests against the government that require the removal of power from Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo
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The Secretary of the Nicaraguan presidency, Paul Oquist, badured Tuesday that "the attempted coup d'etat in Nicaragua is over" and called for them to resolve the crisis by resuming dialogue [19659003].
While Vice President Rosario Murillo celebrated the advance of the "liberation" of the cities from the barricades raised by the protesters, he disqualified them as a "full minority".
"We are moving forward in the liberation of our territory (…) We badume as a government the reconstruction of peace that they wanted to take away from us, a huge challenge, and we have the confidence that we are going reach, "Murillo told government media.
Amidst protests, the government-controlled parliament on Monday approved a law punishing 15 to 20 years of imprisonment for acts of terrorism.
The definition includes persons who commit acts with the intention of "changing the constitutional order by compelling a government or abstaining from
During the three months of demonstrations, 280 people died, despite repeated calls by the international community for an end to the violence.
High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, called on the government to Mangua "to put an immediate end to violence, repression and arbitrary detention and to respect fundamental freedoms"
The UN accuses the Nicaraguan authorities of serious human rights violations. is deeply concerned about the disappearance of two representatives of the Campesino movement, Medardo Mairena and Pedro Mena, arrested last Friday at Mangua airport.
Mairena, l & # 3 9, one of the opposition delegates in dialogue with the government, was accused on Tuesday of terrorism, murder and attempted violation of the Nicaraguan constitutional order.
Mangua Judge Henry Morales agreed against Mairena for the crimes of terrorism, gang formation, murder, kidnapping, theft and the alteration of public order.
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