Opposition groups in Nicaragua have called on President Daniel Ortega on Friday to return to the negotiating table. In the wake of riots in the Central American country, according to human rights organizations, around 450 people have died since April.
In an interview with the American broadcaster CNN, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said that because of the unrest in his country in the last few months at least 195 deaths have fallen. Earlier, the government of the Central American country had said that about sixty people had died as a result of the bloody protests.
More than 350 people have died in recent months in bloody protests in Nicaragua. Another 2100 people were injured. That is what the Nicaraguan human rights organization ANPDH has brought out on Wednesday. The government itself speaks of around fifty dead.
In the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, eight people died on Saturday when the violence between police and protesters flared up again. Two people died from bullets and a family of six died when their house burned down.
After weeks of protests against the government, the violence in Nicaragua has escalated further. On Saturday (local time), according to local media, at least five people were killed, including an American citizen.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. They asked for the resignation of President Daniel Ortega and demanded justice for the victims of the recent riots.
The Dutch in Nicaragua feel threatened by the out of control of violence against demonstrators who want to get rid of the left dictator Daniël Ortega. ' Everyone expects war '', fears Joost, who saw the colonial city of Granada change from a tourist paradise in a true battlefield within a few weeks.
Two 19-year-old students were killed in an uprising at a university in Nicaragua. They became victims of armed men who attacked the campus.
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua does not want to implement the changes in the country's social system. That made Ortega known during a television speech. Due to the controversial amendment of the law, it has been uneasy for days in the South American country. Eleven deaths have already occurred during the protests.
In case of protests against the adjustment of the social system in Nicaragua, according to the human rights organization Cenidh, at least 25 deaths have already occurred. The authorities speak of eleven deaths.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has sent the army to the city of Estelí to suppress the social unrest. During protests in several cities against the reform of the social system, at least ten people have died in the last few days and around one hundred wounded.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Tuesday his wife chose as his running mate who is the vice president if Ortega is elected again. Ortega made his remarkable choice known to the announcement of his candidacy for the upcoming elections.
In an accident with a tourist boat off the coast of Nicaragua are certainly thirteen people from Costa Rica, was killed.
(Reuters / dpa)- A bus accident in Nicaragua has at least six people killed. Certainly fifty passengers were injured, five of whom find themselves in danger, said the government platform El 19.
A volcano in Nicaragua after more than a century of peace suddenly came to life. It is the Momotombo, about 60 kilometers northwest of the capital Managua, which was active for the last time in 1905.
