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Nicaraguan police and paramilitary forces took control of the center of Masaya, a rebel town 30 kilometers from Managua, which became the symbol of President Daniel Ortega's resistance to the government. The military operation, writes the daily El Nuevo Diario, lasted more than seven hours. The budget is at least three dead and many injured
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It took a test of strength to restore "order" to Masaya, Nicaragua, city south-east of the capital considered epicenter of the resistance against the president Daniel Ortega . It is at least 3 dead, an undetermined number of wounded and 40 arrests the budget of the operation with which the Nicaraguan national police and paramilitary forces close to the government have regained control of the district of Monimbò.
A story that began in April when rebel residents erected barricades in the streets of their neighborhoods to defend themselves from police raids. Thus began a standoff in the poorest country of Central America, Nicaragua just shaken for three months by the violence that caused more than 280 deaths and injured 2,000. The protest movement was born in opposition to Ortega, a 72-year-old guerrilla leader from Nicaragua since 2007, having already led it from 1979 to 1990.
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In addition to denouncing the 40 illegal arrests, human rights organizations have spoken of an indeterminate number of wounded who can not be evacuated because the only hospital in the city "is totally under paramilitary control ". Three months after the beginning of the demonstrations – continued Leiva – "I see the return to the social peace of the country in the future". Last week, the ANPDH had recorded 351 deaths and more than 2,000 wounded since April, the date of the beginning of anti-government demonstrations.
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