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Managua, July 19 .- The Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega charged today against the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua that he calls "putschists" He challenged the OAS and called on his supporters not to "lower the guard" and to maintain "self-defense mechanisms" amidst the bloody socio-political crisis that the country has been living for three months.
Ortega, who led an act in commemoration of 39 years of the revolution that overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua, denounced that he is the victim of an "armed conspiracy and funded by internal and external forces " – of which he did not speak – who try to overthrow him These forces, he said, have the" complicity "of the Nicaraguan bishops, who act as mediators and witnesses of a national dialogue.
After Ortega, the bishops left in evidence their "coup d'état" intentions when they presented a proposal to overcome the crisis, which included the progress of the general elections for March 2019 and the restructuring. of the state.
The episcopate proposed to Ortega, on June 7, advance the general elections from November 2021 to March 31, 2019, without him being able to represent himself, to overcome the crisis which, according to the president, the " surprise "and told him:" (The bishops) "They were part of the plan with the putschists," continued the president, in front of thousands of Nicaraguans who gathered on the square of the Fe Juan Pablo II, an esplanade located on the shores of Lake Managua., badisted by the Apostolic Nuncio Stanislaw Waldemar Sommertag
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"It hurts me to say that, because I value the bishops, I respect them, I am Catholic, "said Ortega, who observed that in the episcopate there are bishops with positions of greater confrontation and others more moderate," but unfortunately the confrontation line is still imposed, not of mediation. "
Therefore, Ortega disqualified Bishops as mediators of dialogue because, in his opinion, "sided", are committed to "blow" and promote the lifting of "satanic sects."
He criticized the bishops invited citizens to join this Friday to a day of fasting and to the exorcism prayer in San Miguel Arcángel, in "compensation for the profanations" of these last months "against God" with the violence unleashed in the country.
The bishops urged, "especially the police, the army and other officials" who support the violence against Nicaraguans on the orders of the government, to reflect on the "grave and urgent" situation of the countries and to make the decision "that their conscience dictates and they commit themselves to defend life, truth and justice"
"What exorcises the demons that they have there!", s & # 39, Ortega cried, for whom the bishops made this invitation because he decided to restore order with the use of force "and that is what irritates them, enrages them and calls us to exorcise. "
The president urged the bishops to" rectify and not lift these satanic, putsch and murderous sects " referring to sectors opposed to the government.
During his speech, the president also challenged the Organization of American States (OAS), whose council permanent approved this Wednesday in a session An extraordinary resolution calling for early elections
"The decisions of Nicaragua are not taken in Washington (OAS headquarters), they are taken in Managua" he noticed.
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 seven abstentions and three absences were recorded.
In addition, Chief Sandinista called on his supporters not to "lower the guard" and maintain active "self – defense mechanisms" in order to avoid a "coup d '. State "against them
. Venezuela, through Chancellor Jorge Arreaza, offered to "defend the sovereignty" of Nicaragua.
"Know, President Daniel Ortega, that if the Bolivarian people, the revolutionaries of Venezuela, we were to come to Nicaragua, defend the sovereignty and independence of Nicaragua, to offer our blood for Nicaragua, we would go as Sandino, at the mountain of Nueva Segovia ", said Arreaza before the Sandinista audience.
Previously, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodrí Guez showed his solidarity with what he saw as "interventionist actions and attempts to destabilize the nation".
The foreign ministers of Venezuela and Cuba were the only state representatives to accompany Ortega in the most important celebration of the sovereign. Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)
Nicaragua has been through the most bloody socio-political crisis since the 1980s, with Ortega as president, which left between 277 and 351 dead, according to humanitarian organizations.
Ortega began on April 18 for failed social security reforms and became a claim that calls for the resignation of the president, after eleven years in power, with accusations of abuse and corruption against him. EFE
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