Violence in Nicaragua leaves four dead, including a Brazilian student

The political violence in Nicaragua claimed the lives of at least four people on Monday night, among them a Brazilian who was studying medicine at a university in the capital, reported several

The rector of the American University in Managua Ernesto Medina assured that Rayneia Lima whose age could be 29 to 31 years According to various reports, she was murdered by paramilitaries who held the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua since 13 July.

"Her boyfriend said that about eleven o'clock he was in his car and that she was in his, passing near UNAN and that they ransacked (shot) his car … emergency at the hospital, but the bullets had reached his heart, pancreas and liver, he could not resist. , said the rector to AP.

Lima, who was in the sixth year of his career, had lived in Nicaragua for six years and practiced as medical resident at Carlos Roberto Huembes Hospital in Managua belonging to the police.

In a statement, the Nicaraguan National Police attributed the death of a private security guard who "under circumstances not yet determined, fired with a gun at In turn, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry expressed its "deep indignation" about what happened and in a communi He said he was asking the Nicaraguan government to clarify what had happened.

Three more deaths were reported at dawn on Tuesday in Jinotega, 143 kilometers north of Managua, where paramilitary and police forces attacked the barricades in the Sandino district, which remained Fortress request the departure of President Daniel Ortega from the government.

"We were able to confirm that there are three dead, about 25 wounded and 15 people detained in this district of Jinotega," said Monday Alvaro Leiva, executive director of the Nicaraguan Association of Human Rights. l & # 39; man.

Leiva assured that in the country a violent persecution was unleashed against the citizens who demonstrated during marches or demonstrations. "Within 24 hours, from Sunday to Monday, we managed to report more than 750 kidnappings across the country by paramilitaries, in flagrant violation of human rights."

The attacks and deaths occurred just hours after President Ortega gave an interview to the American channel Fox News in which he claimed that the country was normalizing for a week.

"The troubles for a week have stopped in the country and are moving towards a normalization," said the president in a first interview with an independent media in nine years. In this, he denied being responsible for the deaths that took place, having control of the paramilitaries and reiterated that he was not willing to conduct elections as claimed by the protesters.

On Tuesday afternoon, US Vice President Mike Pence criticized this scenario.

"State-sponsored violence in Nicaragua is undeniable, Ortega's propaganda deceives and changes nothing, more than 350 deaths in the hands of the regime. the Ortega government to end the violence now and to hold elections.The world is watching! "Pence wrote on his Twitter account.

The socio-political crisis in Nicaragua began last April, after the approval of a controversial social security reform that, without prospering, provoked demonstrations against Ortega who, in response, ordered a crackdown According to local and international humanitarian organizations, between 277 and 351 deaths.

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