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Thousands stage anti-Ortega protest in Managua, demand release of hundreds
Thousands of demonstrators marched Sunday through Nicaragua's capital Managua to demand the resignation of President Daniel Ortega and the liberation of hundreds detained during months of deadly government repression. Whole families — including young children and the elderly — took part in the "Rescuing the ...
U.N. human rights team kicked out of Nicaragua after it lays blame for violence on Ortega government
The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is expelling a United Nations human rights team two days after the body published a report blaming it for the violent repression of opposition protests. Guillermo Fernandez Maldonado, chief of the U.N.'s human rights mission in Nicaragua, said ...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence warns Nicaragua as more killed in unrest
The United States on Tuesday warned Nicaragua to halt violence against opposition groups as at least four more people were killed in unrest that has gripped the country for three months. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said it was "undeniable" that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's ...
Foes of Ortega go into hiding, vow no surrender after deadly clampdown
Hundreds of opponents of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega are in hiding in safe houses and planning their next steps to push for his resignation after Ortega loyalists, supported by police, took over a stronghold this week. Police and armed Ortega supporters stormed the Monimbo suburb ...
Nicaraguan forces violently retake protester-held symbolic city
Nicaraguan police and armed pro-government civilians on Tuesday laid siege to and then retook a symbolically important neighborhood that had recently become a center of resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government. Government forces began advancing on Masaya's Monimbo neighborhood before dawn and had largely regained ...
Nicaraguan students vow to keep up fight until Ortega resigns after deadly clashes
Students marched through Nicaragua's capital Monday, chanting "GET OUT" to demand that President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, resign after a deadly weekend of clashes. At least 10 people died on Sunday, a rights group said, after pro-government forces launched an ...
At least 10 killed as Nicaraguan regime forces wage intense attacks on restive south: rights group
Nicaraguan pro-government forces launched an operation in the country's south that left at least 10 people dead and around 20 injured on Sunday, a human rights group said. The dead included six civilians — among them two children — and four police, according to the ...
Nicaraguan religious officials say government forces killed two men at church protest site
Government forces in Nicaragua shot dead two young men at a protest site at a church, the clergy said, the latest violence to hit the Central American country that has convulsed with political unrest for three months. The attack took place on the third day ...
Two killed in new marches against Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega
At least two demonstrators were killed and 11 others were wounded in Nicaragua on Saturday, a rights group said, as thousands of demonstrators marched against President Daniel Ortega across the Central American country. Dubbed the Flowers March, the protests honored the youth killed in the ...
Nicaraguan bishops stage show of solidarity with Ortega's civilian foes facing 'massacre'
Nicaragua's bishops entered the opposition bastion of Masaya on Thursday in a dramatic show of solidarity with residents they said were threatened with a "massacre" at the hands of forces loyal to President Daniel Ortega. Thousands of people poured onto Masaya's narrow streets to welcome ...
Nicaraguan bastion defies government siege to bury dead blamed on state-backed 'assassins'
Residents in the Nicaraguan opposition bastion of Masaya were on Wednesday holding off an offensive by police and pro-government paramilitaries as fresh violence flared across the Central American country. Funerals were held for three people killed in clashes in the flash-point city on Tuesday, bringing ...
Nicaraguan protesters fired homemade mortars to fend off a police crackdown Saturday in new unrest that left at least six people dead, including a U.S. citizen, as the opposition renewed calls for President Daniel Ortega's resignation. But Ortega, the man who has dominated the Central ...
