NICARAGUA
Bloody Sunday
Violence continues in Nicaragua, as pro-government forces strive to control protests against President Daniel Ortega that have been raging since April.
In the latest chapter of the crisis, regime authorities trapped about 200 student protesters on the sprawling campus of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in the capital Friday, eventually resulting in clashes that left at least two people dead and several others injured, NPR reported, citing the Associated Press.
The violence flared further on Sunday outside Managua, when the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights said at least 10 people were killed when security forces and paramilitary groups loyal to Ortega attacked people in the city of Masaya and communities of Monimbo. Overall, human rights group say the crackdown has resulted in nearly 300 deaths since the demonstrations began.
Accusing them of corruption, the demonstrators demand that Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, resign. A conference of the country’s bishops has called on the president to move up scheduled elections from 2021 to 2019, but Ortega has rejected that idea.
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