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Nicaraguan police and pro-government armed civilians on Tuesday besieged a symbolically important district that recently became a center of resistance to the government of President Daniel Ortega
Government forces began advancing in the Masaya district before Dawn and had largely resumed the afternoon for the first time since massive demonstrations against the government of Ortega began in mid-April.
Young people fired homemade mortars behind stacked barriers of paving stones between one-story houses and craft workshops in the city about 26 kilometers southeast of the capital.
But they were overwhelmingly defeated by government loyalists who, in a matter of hours, moved into the heart of the neighborhood and started posting videos. automatic rifles in the air in the celebration.
Alvaro Leiva, director of the Nicaraguan Ri-Pro-Human Association of Ghettos, said on Tuesday that there were preliminary reports of three people killed in the fighting and dozens wounded. Young people in the neighborhood rose up against the strong man Anastasio Somoza in the late 1970s as part of the Nicaraguan revolution led in part by Ortega himself. But since protests against cuts to the social security system in mid-April have become a broader call for Ortega's resignation, Monimbo has once again become a center of opposition.
The Ortega government rejected opponents as guilty. and wanted to quell unrest in Masaya before the third anniversary of the start of protests across Nicaragua. Thursday is also the 39th anniversary of the Day of Liberation, which marks the overthrow of the Somoza regime by the Sandinists in 1979.
With gunshots in the background on Tuesday morning, a woman who was asking to be identified as Silvia Silvia, a member of the Monimbo resistance movement, said that the youths were fighting with homemade mortars to defend the dams erected on the perimeter of the neighborhood, but that the government forces were heavily armed
. "We need (the Organization of American States), international organizations to stop this massacre," Silvia said. "We fight for democracy, for freedom."
A few hours later, she said that pro-government "paramilitaries" controlled much of the area and that the opposition had fled into the surrounding woods.
Roman Catholic Apostolic Nuncio Stanislaw Sommertag Waldemar said in a recorded message that Nicaragua was living "a tragic moment" and expressed "deep concern at the seriousness of the situation in the country". He urged all parties to resume dialogue to find a peaceful solution.
Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo, who is also the wife of Ortega, said Monday that it was necessary to "clean" Monimbo and Masaya. She described the opposition as "coup plotters, few, evil, sinister, evil, satanic and terrorist".
Masaya police commissioner also expressed a fighting tone
"The people of Masaya, the people of Monimbo, asked us to release them from the criminals and criminals who trapped them in their deadly barricades. and we will do it at any cost, "said Commissioner Ramon Avellan
working in coordination with the police to remove the roadblocks set up by the opposition that harassed the country's traffic for years. Allied police forces prevented journalists from entering Monimbo
Last weekend, Allied forces took over the campus of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in Managua, where students were confined 19659002] The Catholic auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio José Baez, said via Twitter that the bullets of Monimbo reached the parish of Maria Magdalena where a priest
The government claims that more than 200 people have been killed since the beginning of the unrest. The spokesman for the UN Human Rights Bureau, Rupert Colville, said Tuesday that "the appalling loss of life must stop now."
Monday, the National Assembly of Nicaragua, controlled by the party of Ortega, approved a law against terrorism.
Colville said vaguely crafted legislation could be used to target people "who are simply exercising their Francisco Palmieri, Under-Secretary of State Assistant to the United States for Western Hemisphere Affairs, On Twitter, the United States urged Ortega not to attack Masaya. "Violence and relentless bloodshed by the government in Nicaragua must stop immediately."
Oscar Rene Vargas, a Nicaraguan political analyst, said that if the government managed to take control of Masaya "it would be a tactical victory. but not strategic because the rebellion will continue on the inside and on the international scale. "
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