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6 years ago

Central American Travelers Should Avoid Nicaragua

6 years ago

At least 27 people have died, including a policeman and a journalist, in the protests against social security reform that began last Wednesday, Nicaraguan human rights organizations reported today.

The latest government data, corresponding to Friday, fixed at least 10 deaths, however, protests have intensified since then and continue fighting and vandalism, including looting.

The Nicaraguan journalist Ángel Ganoa died last night of a gun shot in the city of Bluefields, South Caribbean Autonomous Region (RACS) while transmitting live the protests against the government of Daniel Ortega, confirmed the news program El Meridiano, for which the victim worked.

For its part, the National Police reported that one of its agents is between life and death in a health center after receiving a gun shot in the head near the Cristo Rey roundabout in Managua near the end of midnight.

Soldiers of the Nicaraguan Army remain deployed in several cities for the second day after a night of clashes and vandalism, which intensifies every day.

This Sunday, on the fifth day of protests, also awoke with looting of shops and supermarkets in Managua and other cities in the interior of the country.

In images published this Sunday by social media and networks, people are seen carrying objects resulting from looting in stores and supermarkets in Managua.

"Groups of vandals on the right are looting this morning the branches of the Palí supermarkets in Linda Vista and in the sector of Santa Ana and El Arbolito," reported the government website El 19 Digital, which displayed photographs and indicated that there is no police presence.

Organizations that are against the reforms of social security, denounced that they are groups related to the Government who are looting the centers of purchases and look to confuse to the population in an attempt to de-legitimize their fight.

Students were called this Sunday to a new concentration in the Polytechnic University (UPOLI), in Managua, which has been one of the reference centers of the protests against the Government.

President Ortega blamed on Saturday "small opposition groups", whose name he did not specify, to be the cause of the revolts.

During a forced radio and television appearance, Ortega, who was accompanied by the heads of the military and police headquarters, at no time referred to the number of deaths and injuries during the clashes.

Pope Francisco said on Sunday he was "worried" about the situation in Nicaragua and, after praying the Regina Coeli before thousands of faithful in the Plaza de San Pedro, called for the "end of violence" in the Central American country.

The protests in Nicaragua continue, despite the fact that President Ortega announced this Saturday, his willingness to have dialogue with the private company to seek an alternative to the reform of social security, which triggered the strongest protests seen in the last 11 years of the Sandinista government.

The Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep) conditioned the dialogue with the Government to stop the "repression" against the demonstrators, a position that also assumed the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce of Nicaragua (Amcham).

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