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With markets, banks, shops, gas stations and other private enterprises, Nicaragua is meeting today a strike called by the opposition to pressure the president's exit Daniel Ortega who, counter-offensive, announced the mobilization of his supporters.
Although most companies remain closed to support the so-called opposition, it is also for fear of looting or assault, in the midst of overwhelming violence that has made up # 39, now 270 dead in three months of protests against the government. 19659003] "I work out of necessity, but the strike is a weapon to put pressure on the government, because the situation does not end, the poor are the ones who die," Adolfo Díaz, 67, told AFP. . a lonely corridor of the Huembes market, east of Managua
The 24-hour strike is being called by the opposition National Alliance for Justice and Democracy, which brings together groups of civil society. In support of the measure, the financial system, private schools and shopping centers ceased operations. Only petronic service stations are open and there are few passengers at bus stops.
Opponents demand justice, early elections or the resignation of Ortega, whom they accuse of triggering a fierce crackdown on protests and creating a dictatorship with his wife Rosario Murillo, marked by corruption and nepotism.
In the middle of the strike, Ortega will lead in the afternoon the historic "Retiegue", which annually commemorates a guerrilla act before the triumph of the popular uprising which, led by the National Front Sandinista Liberation Movement (FSLN), overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979.
The "retreat", which took place on June 27, 1979 when thousands of Managua guerrillas withdrew to Masaya to regroup their forces before to overthrow Somoza, is commemorated each year by a walk in this city. the most rebels in the country.
But in the face of Nicaragua's tension and violence, the holiday has been postponed and will be a caravan to the northern entrance to Masaya, because to the south of the town is the combative indigenous Monimbó district, entrenched against the combined forces of Ortega (police and paramilitaries).
Given the worsening situation and at the request of Argentina, Canada, Chile, the United States and Peru, the OAS convened a meeting Friday on Nicaragua after the presentation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. report which signals a "deepening" of violence and repression.
According to information from the AFP
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