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During a speech to thousands of Sandinistas in a square in Managua, the president denounced that many temples were busy serving as barracks for storing ammunition as part of the socio-political crisis that is going through the Nicaragua since April 18th.
Episcopal Conference, mediator and witness of the national dialogue, proposed to Ortega to advance the general elections for March 31, 2019, without it being able to stand for re-election, to overcome the crisis.
Ortega revealed that when the bishops made him This proposal, June 7, was "surprised" and when he received the document, which in addition to advancing the elections provides for the restructuring of the state he said: "They are engaged in the coup d'etat."
with the putschists, "continued the president, in front of thousands of Nicaraguans who gathered in the Plaza de la Fe, Juan Pablo II, an esplanade located on the shores of Lake Managua, in commemoration reasoning for the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution
"It hurts me to say that, because I value the bishops, I respect them, I am Catholic."
According to him, there are bishops with positions from a greater confrontation and others more moderate, "but unfortunately the confrontation line is still imposed, no mediation."
Ortega described the bishops' proposal, to advance the elections and restructure the state, as a "coup state," noting that this is not the position of a mediator, but of an institution that "takes sides" in the context of the crisis
"I was surprised, it hurt me that the bishops had the "Attitude of blow," insisted Ortega, who said that he was filled with "Job's patience" when they made this proposal and that even so, he told them to lift him into the dialogue to see if he could find a consensus.
the bishops they alluded to as mediators and witnesses ", because with their proposal to anticipate the elections, they sent a" clear "message that they are in favor of the "coup" of the state. " 19659002 "This is what has hurt me the most with the bishops we could find agreements that would help us to consolidate peace."
According to Ortega, the current crisis in which Nicaragua is submerged "was a painful battle", because "they faced" an armed conspiracy funded by
He accused these "forces" of initiating "aggression" in the context of demonstrations and "provoking the dead" because "they threw young people out of neighborhoods." "in the street"
Nicaragua is going through the most bloody socio-political crisis since the 1980s, with Ortega as president.
The demonstrations began on April 18, due to failed social security reforms, and they became a rebellion calling for the resignation of the president, after eleven years in power, with accusations of abuse and corruption against him [19659002] The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Human Rights (Acnudh) has accused the Ortega government of serious human rights violations in the context of the current crisis, which has made more than 350 dead, according to humanitarian agencies.
The Organization of American States (OAS) approved Wednesday a resolution asking Ortega to support "an electoral timetable" agreed in the national dialogue, in a formula that seeks early elections as a way out of the crisis.
The resolution was approved with the vote in favor of 21 of the 34 active members of the OAS, while three (Nicaragua, Venezuela and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) voted against and there was seven abstentions and three absentees.
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