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The dialogue between the government of President Daniel Ortega and the opposition forces is still blocked in Nicaragua, after thousands of people demonstrated in the streets of the capital for and against the president, in the middle of the violence that left hundreds of deaths
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The Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes expressed its desire to live the dialogue, which remains stagnant after the rebound of state repression in the anti-government protests that began on April 18.
"We want to keep this little flame alive," said Brenes, also archbishop of Managua after officiating a Mass in the Metropolitan Cathedral.
The dialogue, whose mediators and witnesses are the bishops of the Episcopal Conference set up to edited last May, but it has developed intermittently and was suspended since last June 25, date of last session.
Ortega described as " coup leaders " bishops and considered that they are accomplices of the internal forces and international groups that, in their view, are acting in Nicaragua to overthrow him.
On June 7, the Episcopal Conference proposed to Ortega to advance until March 2019 the elections scheduled for 2021 and that He refused to represent himself, but Ortega rejected it.
Despite these accusations, Cardinal Brenes said that in the dialogues, these ups and downs occur often and he recalled the experience of the 1980s, when Nicaragua was submerged in a civil war and was also ruled by Ortega.
During this Sunday at least eight people, including an officer, were injured in a confrontation in the Nicaraguan city. The clash took place in the Tamanes district of the municipality of Juigalpa, where a group of armed civilians attacked another, which provoked the intervention of the national police, according to the civic movements of this city.
Meanwhile, the public prosecutor accused Cristhian Fajardo, one of the leaders of the so-called "April 19 Movement" of the Masaya city of organized crime and terrorism.
The Office of the Prosecutor He also accused Fajardo and his wife, María Adilia Peralta Cerrato, of financing terrorism and impeding public services to the detriment of the state and society.
In Masaya 28 kilometers southeast of Managua, a total of 10 people were also released with the mediation of the Sandinista Mayor Orlando Noguera making a total of 140 during the last week. EFE
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