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by Blanca Morel / Julia Rios Agence France-Presse MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Thousands of Nicaraguans marched through their capital on Wednesday demanding that anti-government protesters jailed over the past four months be released. “Liberty for our political prisoners,” yelled many in the rally. They also called for President Daniel Ortega, a 72-year-old former guerrilla who has been in power the last 11 years, to step down. The demonstration was a show of defiance over a […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — The Nicaraguan government on Tuesday accused the opposition of “coup-driven terrorism” and blamed it for 197 deaths that have occurred in nearly four months of protests against President Daniel Ortega. Rosario Murillo, who is Ortega’s wife, vice president and chief government spokeswoman, made the allegation to state media. She vowed that protesters and opposition sympathizers who have been convicted over the unrest, would “pay for their crimes.” The 197 death toll […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The known death toll from a four-month crackdown on anti-government protests in Nicaragua has risen to 264, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said Wednesday. “As recorded by the IACHR since the start of the repression against social protests, to date, 264 people have lost their lives and more than 1,800 have been injured,” the commission’s chief Paulo Abrao told reporters. He was speaking at a meeting of the […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Investigators from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday began a probe into months of violence in Nicaragua which has killed at least 220 people. “Our commitment is to the victims…regardless of who the perpetrators are,” said Italian human rights expert Amerigo Incalcaterra. A statement from the commission said it had a mandate of six months and has been tasked with “supporting the investigations of the violent acts that have […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Nicaraguan human rights groups expressed renewed concern Tuesday over a rising death toll from months of protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega. The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) has reported at least 212 people dead, but told AFP on Tuesday it was investigating possible new deaths in recent days. Another group, the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH) published a report Tuesday putting the death toll at 285, […]
MASAYA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Nicaraguan police and pro-government paramilitaries moved to reassert control over the city of Masaya by force Tuesday after residents of the opposition bastion declared themselves in rebellion against President Daniel Ortega. Bursts of gunfire resounded in three neighborhoods, including the main entrance to the city, where government forces have gained control, the head of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Association Alvaro Leiva said. Three people were killed in this unrest in Masaya, […]
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 […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — At least 121 people have been killed in a wave of protests since April 18 against President Daniel Ortega’s government, Nicaragua’s main human rights group said Tuesday. The latest toll includes a young boy killed by gunfire during clashes Tuesday in the city of Granada between anti-government protesters and riot police, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights said. It said 1,300 people had been wounded in the violence. A parish […]
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 […]
by Blanca Morel and Julia Rios Agence France Presse MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega on Sunday agreed to scrap a highly-controversial pension reform that sparked four days of violence which left 24 people dead. After days of clashes between protesters and the security forces, the worst of his 11-year presidency, Ortega said he was revoking the reform during talks with business leaders. The Nicaraguan Institute for Social Security (INSS) has decided to […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement Monday, leaving the United States and Syria as the only two holdouts on the global climate pact. The government of President Daniel Ortega said the global 2015 pact represented “the only international instrument that offers the conditions to face global warming and its effects,” according to a statement read out by Vice President Rosario Murillo. Monday’s announcement leaves the United States and Syria as the only countries holding […]
