SIC News | US accuses Nicaraguan president of being responsible for violence in the country

"Let's be clear, it is the Ortega government that renews the violence every day to kill its people and thus stay in power," denounced the US ambassador to the government. Organization of American States (OAS), Carlos Trujillo, during a hearing of the Committee of External Relations of the Chamber of Deputies, whose purpose was to analyze the situation in the country of Central America .

Carlos Trujillo declared that the only objective of the Nicaraguan government is to silence the voices of citizens who demand reforms

At the same hearing, Michael Kozak, an official of the Office of Democracy and Human Rights State Department Man, detailed some of the measures allegedly used by Ortega to achieve his goal.

"Government uses gangs to control violent protests, there is reliable information about extrajudicial executions, disappearances

The hearing took place only a day after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Men (IACHR) denounced the intensity of the crackdown on protesters by the Nicaraguan authorities.

Demonstrators accuse President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, of being arrested. abuse of power and corruption Daniel Ortega has been in power since 2007 after a first term from 1979 to 1990.

According to the Nicaraguan Association of Human Rights (ANPDH), at least 51 people are 261 are missing in Nicaragua

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