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A pro-government paramilitary operation killed 14 people in Nicaragua, where more than 250 people have been killed in recent months in protests against President Daniel Ortega, who has been de facto in control of the country for decades. Al Jazeera wrote that groups of armed persons dressed in plainclothes and having their faces covered demolished the barricades of opposition to Diriamba and Jinotepe with the police. "The situation is serious," said Alvaro Leiva, secretary of a Nicaraguan NGO that defends human rights. At a rally on Sunday, Ortega said he had no plans to hold early elections, as his opponents demand, nor to resign with his wife, who is vice-president of the country
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