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Managua (AFP)
The repression of the demonstrators and the repression of the free press prove that the government of Daniel Ortega "lacks political will" to find a solution to the crisis in Nicaragua, declared Tuesday the union of the company chiefs.
The alliance of the Nicaraguan opposition, which includes the COSEP business leaders' union, suspended Monday peace talks with the Ortega regime to protest "violence and violence". repression "of the demonstrators.
Discussions resumed Tuesday in Managua, the capital.
Riot police used tear gas to end an opposition demonstration on Saturday while it temporarily detained 100 people, including two opposition leaders.
COSEP stated that government repression showed that the regime did not want to "create the basic conditions for the national dialogue to demonstrate its viability and meet the legitimate demands of the people".
The union is part of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy (ACJD), which began peace talks with the government late last month.
The ACJD suspended talks for three days last week until the government gave in to a request from the opposition to release prisoners.
And on Monday, he "strongly condemned" the government's crackdown on dissent over the weekend.
In a statement, he said the government "holds more than 700 political prisoners simply for the defense of the rights of their citizens."
More than 700 people were arrested between April and October during protests that also resulted in 325 deaths as a result of a brutal crackdown on security services.
About 50 prisoners were sent from prison under house arrest on Thursday as part of a government move to resume talks, while another 100 did the same on the opening day of the talks in February.
COSEP said Saturday's crackdown showed that "we are facing a police state that does not allow for the expression of the fundamental constitutional rights of all Nicaraguans".
The police acted "disproportionately with excessive violence".
Both parties will try to end the stalemate with the help of Vatican envoy Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, and the special envoy of the Organization of American States, Luis Angel Rosadilla, told AFP opposition MP Jose Pallais.
The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, wrote on Twitter that "to continue in good faith, in Nicaragua, all political prisoners … must be released."
Nicaragua is plunged into a political crisis since last April, when a protest against the pension reform now abandoned has snowballed and has become an opposition to the Ortega regime.
The former left-wing guerrilla leader has been in power for more than eleven years, but alongside his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, he has been accused of having ruled with a fist of iron and steel. Violating his rights.
? AFP 2019
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