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by Maggy Donaldson © Agence France-Presse MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — The day M.M. traded his books for mortars and joined the masses in protesting against Nicaragua’s president, he knew he would have to leave home. “If I go to my house I’m a dead man,” he says from the Managua campus of Nicaragua’s national university, now occupied by hundreds of students organizing against leftist leader Daniel Ortega. “My father is a Sandinista; he’s a fan of […]
by Julia Rios and Maggy Donaldson Agence France-Presse MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Armed riot police and pro-government paramilitaries attacked barricades manned by anti-government activists in the Nicaraguan capital, plunging city neighborhoods into violence and chaos in an attempt to stamp out a two-month-old uprising against President Daniel Ortega. The government offensive launched overnight into early Monday comes as Ortega enters his fifth day of silence regarding the Roman Catholic Church’s proposal to restart talks aimed at […]
by Marco SIBAJA Agence France Presse MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was under pressure from widespread street unrest Monday despite backing down on a contentious pension reform plan that triggered days of violence in which at least 27 people have been killed. Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of the capital Managua in the evening hours to demand an end to the repression against protesters in the latest anti-government […]
