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After a bloody weekend that left 12 dead in Nicaragua, the international community s & # 39; ready to discuss the repression of demonstrations for three months asking the leftist President Daniel Ortega to leave power.
On Sunday, police and paramilitaries attacked Masaya (south) and neighboring communities to remove roadblocks for anti-government protesters. The operation killed 10 people, including four paramilitaries and 20 wounded, according to Álvaro Leiva, secretary of the Nicaraguan Association of Human Rights (ANPDH).
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protests in April, about 280 people died. The claims were initially against a reform of the social security system, which the government canceled, but led to a demand for the ousting of Ortega, which has governed since 2007 for the third consecutive term . [19659002L'oppositionl'accusé'établirunedictatureetveutanticiperlesélectionsprésidentiellesdemars2021
The government says the protests of & # 39; opposition a coup goal, seeking to change the & # 39; constitutional order
. they conducted Sunday operations against the barricades at Masaya, 30 km south of Managua, and several neighboring municipalities.
"We are being attacked by police and parapolices hooded armed with & # 39;. AK and machine guns in our neighborhood native Monimbó" denounced Álvaro Gómez, a resident of the square.
Also paramilitaries in the same area opened fire on a vehicle in which they were Bishop Abelardo Mata, the & # 39; one of five Catholic hierarchs involved in the dialogue between the government and the & # 39; opposition
The religious, a great critic of the Ortega government, was not injured, reported the church.
19659013] Immersed in violence and dead end, the Nicaraguan crisis will be discussed in international fora, such as the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) and the Commonwealth of States Latin America and the Caribbean (Celac), Monday in Brussels
The President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, has asked his Foreign Minister, Roberto Ampuero, to address the issue, while the Minister Costa Rican Epsy Campbell asked the forum a statement on the Nicaraguan crisis
in turn, the & # 39; Ambbadador of the United States to the & # 39; OAS, Carlos Trujillo argued that the Nicaraguan issue would this week on the agenda of the continental forum.
"The violent repression of the government through the use of Sandinista maras (crowds) is unacceptable. The United States will be responsible for violators of human rights, "Trujillo said on Twitter
while Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado announced that the crisis in Nicaragua would be present in his discussions with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, with whom he will meet this Monday in San José
Church attacked
The resurgence of violence occurred amidst an offensive that government forces have undertaken since the early days of July to "clean" the streets of the barricades, erected by the demonstrators as part of the demonstrations began on April 18.
The Catholic Church, as a mediator, has suffered the badault of the resurgence of violence, as evidenced by the attack of Bishop Báez
Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes denounced that government forces came in and stole the house from the catarina and asked the government to "respect the temples" and stop the attacks.
Catholic leaders denounce the "lack of political will of the government" in the dialogue with the opposition of the Civic Alliance.
"We have witnessed the lack of political will of the government to sincerely dialogue and seek real processes that lead us to a true democracy, repeatedly refusing to deal […] the program of democratization", have the Catholic bishops said in a statement released Saturday.
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