Paramilitaries besiege church with students and journalists in Nicaragua – Havana Times en Español

HAVANA TIMES – About 200 university students, priests and journalists were besieged this morning (local) inside a church in the capital from Nicaragua by The armed paramilitaries who threaten to burn the temple, one of the people locked inside said today to dpa.

The auxiliary bishop of Managua, Mgr. Silvio Báez, also stated in a tweet that "priests, with wounded students inside the parish of the parish Divina Misericordia, are still waiting for someone One arrives to help injure themselves.They are always surrounded by paramilitary forces that fire. "

Journalist Sergio Marín Cornavaca told dpa that the situation" is very tense and serious ". Meanwhile, several hundred capitals arrived in vehicles near the church and tried to "rescue the young" under the paramilitary headquarters

"We are about 200, the vast majority are students and we are besieged by the paramilitaries. they do not stop shooting. We believe that they want to burn the church, "said Marín, while on the other side of the phone, there was constant shooting of weapons of war.

Events take place inside the Divina Misericordia parish, on Jean Paul Genie Avenue, southeast area of ​​Managua, from where three wounded were evacuated last night and journalist Joshua Partlow , sent by the American newspaper "The Washington Post" to Managua.

Mgr Báez confirmed that the army did not allow the entry of ambulances These three wounded and Partlow

Some 200 students sought refuge in the temple after being expelled Friday night by paramilitaries trenches that they maintained at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN)

.Marín Cornavaca, director of the radio show " The mesa redonda ", broadcast by Radio 800, is located within the Church Ismael López, BBC Mundo, and José Noel Marenco, from the 15 channel of local (private) television.

Meanwhile, about 500 people moved into vehicles on the site, among them the student leaders of demonstrations against the country's president, Daniel Ortega.

"We continue in the wake of the UNAN Whoever wants to come do it, only our flags accompany us.We do not leave without children," tweeted the student leader Lesther Alemán

Two patrols police were placed on the avenue to prevent the pbadage of the capital, including Ireland Jerez, union leader of the market traders and opponent to Ortega. "We will not leave the street without the students. They will have to kill us, "Jerez said by phone to dpa.