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de luto, Nicaragua commemorates Thursday the 39th anniversary of the victory of the Sandinista revolution, amid the most bloody socio-political crisis of recent decades.
After three months of repression of the protests against the president Daniel Ortega who have killed over 300 people, more and more Nicaraguans compare the former guerrillas with the brutal dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle , which he overthrew in 1979.
Nicaragua triumphed on July 19, 1979, after Somoza's expulsion. Ortega, who returned to power in 2007 after three consecutive electoral defeats, was also responsible for the last major crisis in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
The Ortega government took control this week of the city Masaya rebels, the last fiefdom controlled by his opponents, after a violent six-hour confrontation that left at least two dead, according to a human rights body. "We proclaim our victory, our advance on these dark and evil forces, for three months they took the peace, but they could not," Vice President Rosario Murillo said Wednesday in his daily address to the official media.
The July 19 holiday is usually a massive party in Nicaragua, but Murillo is reluctant to announce the commemorations, and he has been limited to saying that it would be celebrated "in every municipality".
In the last few weeks, the government of Daniel Ortega has toughened the crackdown It was against the opponents who blocked the roads and controlled the cities, even forcing their opponents by force.
Human rights groups estimate that more than 300 people died in the crackdown on anti-government protests
. They gathered to reach Bolivar Avenue and locate to hear Daniel Ortega's speech, scheduled late afternoon on a stand between Lake Xolotlán and a huge silhouette of the Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto Sandino, the leader of the local resistance against the invasion. American in the first half of the twentieth century
With the blue and white banner and the red and black flags of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN, government party), Ortega's allies came from all parts of the small country of 6.2 million
Despite the coup of the forces of Daniel Ortega, the opponents argue that they will continue to protest The president resigns
Demonstrations against the government began in the mid -April in response to a reform of the social security system, but they developed after the violent repression.
Among the claims, opponents demand state control over the media, suspicions of voter fraud, manipulation of justice, corruption and the intention of Ortega to continue. establish a "family dictatorship" in the hands of his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo. – Prohibited Weapons –
The National Police of Nicaragua prohibits "the possession of firearms and riflemen, with the exception of the authorities of the National Police, the Nicaraguan Army and the system national penitentiary, in the exercise of their functions ". 19659016] The measure is due to the fact that this year's celebration presents a special context, since various sectors of Nicaragua, including students, peasants, businessmen, producers, traders, workers, among others, demand the resignation of Ortega.
The National Police have not informed if the bans cover heavily armed and hooded civilians who, in recent months, were traveling in Toyota Hilux trucks in different cities of Nicaragua, which were filmed by shooting and capturing people on the streets, as well as police in uniform.
The bans of the Nicaraguan police will be maintained until Friday, according to the notification of the police. 19659019] Source: Agencies
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