More than four months have passed since the beginning of violent protests and brutal repression that has taken place in Nicaragua that resulted in more than 400 deaths, hundreds of demonstrators arrested, more than 1,800 wounded, despite kidnappings, lynching, etc. The people rebel against the anti-people and sell-motherland government of Ortega from the Sandista National Liberation Front (FSLN) lacking revolutionary leadership, the electioneering opportunism at the head of the state massacres the protests, Yankee imperialism tries to lead the pople´s unrest while continuing its plans to increase control over Latin America.
The protests, which began on April and were initially against the social security ´reform´ and other reactionary policies, started to demand the renounce of Ortega. The repression was brutal, even though it was successful in defeating the ´reform´ and the people kept increasing the protests demanding the renounce.
The people built trenches blocking streets and defending themselves with clubs, stones and fireworks in the neighborhoods of Managua and other important cities and were directly attacked by repressive forces or paramilitary groups supporting the government. Students have interrupted classes and seized important universities. The clashes with the police resulted in many dead and wounded students and this led to even more people joining protests on the streets.
Ortega government cackles against the imperialist intervention plans on the country, which is very likely, but these are empy words when spoken by people who use antiimperialism to massacre its own people,
On July 12, the police and paramilitary forces harassed the installations of the Autonomous National University of Nicaragua (Unan) in Managua, where the protesting students were lodging, the students took shelter in the Divine Mercy Church and were attacked again, resulting in 2 dead students. The next day, two members of the peasant movement of Nicaragua were arrested by the police in the airport of Managua alleged of killing police officers in an enconter that took place some days before. Both peasant leaders went into court hearing in closed doors and without lawyers, accused of seven crimes, such as terrorism, on July 17. The terrorism law was approved by the parliament in the day before.
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