Nicaragua is on the verge of a civil war. Since April of 2018, hundreds of people were killed in violent protests. Also attempts at mediation from abroad to fail.
Nicaragua is located in the most severe political crisis of the last four decades. Prospects for a peaceful solution to the conflict, there is not currently. The government since the beginning of the protests on may 18. April 2018 rigorously against the protesters. According to the inter-American Commission on human rights (IAKMR) were killed at least 325 people, 2000 injured and hundreds arrested. Around 60,000 people have fled from their homeland. The Executive Secretary of the IAKMR, the Brazilian Pãulo Abro, warned of the establishment of a police state in Nicaragua.
A chronology of the events:
18./19. April 2018: About 60 people, which is against a controversial Reform of social security to demonstrate, in the capital city of Managua by the government, the activists attacked. Similar incidents were in the cities of León and Matagalpe. The following day, the police proceeded against a number of Protest marches by students. Three young people were killed, 37 injured.
22./23. April 2018: thousands of anti-government protesters marching through the streets in Managua, demanding the resignation of President Daniel Ortega. After clashes with security forces and Pro-government thugs violence breaks out. The number of dead rises to at least 25. One of them is the Journalist Angel Gahona, which is taken in front of the camera during a Live broadcast from the city of Bluefields in the head. Both sides give each other the blame for the escalation. After an appeal from the Pope to President Ortega pulls back the reforms, where the protests had ignited.
24. April 2018: The bishops ‘ conference of Nicaragua as “a mediator and a witness,” a national Dialogue.
Mother and brother mourn the loss of Angel Gahona: The Journalist was shot in front of a Live camera.
16. May 2018: It starts with a first round of talks between the government and the opposition “civic Alliance” (Alianza Civica), which delegates the President’s request, “the Repression” and give up Power. The government suspects a foreign-financed “coup”. Amnesty International accuses the government of Ortega is a “fatal policy of repression”.
30. May 2018: police and paramilitary units firing into a crowd of hundreds of thousands of protesters in Managua. In these and similar clashes in other cities of the country, 16 people are killed and dozens injured. A total of more than 70 people was, in the meantime, in the case of protests killed. President Ortega announced that he will not assign.
5. June 2018: protesters erect barricades and roadblocks in cities and on highways. In Masaya are killed in clashes, dozens of protesters.
12. June 2018: The members of the opposition civic Alliance (Alianza Civica) calls for the first of a total of four General strikes. A few days later, Ortega approved the entry of representatives of the IAKMR, the High Commissioner of the United Nations for human rights and the European Union.
5. July 2018: The United States adopted sanctions against three high-ranking officials in the government of Nicaragua: Francisco López, Director of the state Oil company, the Vice-mayor of Managua, Fidel Moreno, and Francisco Díaz, the Deputy head of the police.
13. July 2018: para-military and police shooting at students in a Church in Managua to seek refuge. Two killed, 16 injured. Government forces regain control of the city of Masaya, a stronghold of the Opposition.
A mediator between the Opposition and the government: Silvio Báez, auxiliary Bishop of Managua
2. August 2018: the Permanent Council of The OAS (organization of American States) forms a “working party” to a peaceful solution. The government announces to refuse the representatives of this group entry.
31. August 2018: The Ministry of foreign Affairs the representative of the High Commissioner of the United Nations for human rights, the Ortega as “instruments of death, Terror and lies”.
28. September 2018: The Nicaraguan police ban all protests by the Opposition, even though the constitutional freedom of Assembly, freedom of demonstration and peaceful actions is guaranteed.
4. October 2018: The members of the opposition civic Alliance, with a further 42 parties and movements and formed the opposition Alliance “UNAP”.
14. October 2018: The police solves a protest March of the Opposition in Managua and arrested 38 of opponents of the government.
18. October 2018: The inter-American Commission on human rights reported 325 deaths and more than 2000 injured due to “state Repression”. To 52,000 Nicaraguans to have entered Costa Rica in exile. The government speaks of 198 deaths.
12. November 2018: The government announces a law on “reconciliation and peace” to “in schools, the family and the neighborhood values and practices of respect, of solidarity, of Dialogue and of living in harmony to promote”.
President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice-President, Rosario Murillo defend their Power with all means
27. November 2018: The US Congress adopted sanctions for other high functionaries and family members of Daniel Ortega, where corruption and human rights violations of the accused.
19. December 2018: The government of Ortega refers to representatives of the IAKMR and a further group of experts in the country. The General Secretariat of the OAS protested sharply.
21. December 2018: The government arrested three opposition journalists, and includes the operation of the government-critical TV channel “100%Noticias”. The government declared the work of nine non-governmental organizations to be illegal, and accused “to pursue terrorist targets”.
29. January, 2019: The ruling party in Nicaragua, the FSLN, the Socialist International, a global Alliance of socialist and social democratic parties, is excluded.
27. February 2019: A second round of Dialogue between the government and the Opposition begins. Target the release of political prisoners, strengthening and restoration of individual liberties, electoral reform, and compensation for the victims of the Repression. The government transferred to the arrest of 100 prisoners from the prison house.
3. April 2019: The negotiations between the government and the Opposition ends without an agreement on key issues. It remains at the agreed release of political prisoners, which is to be monitored by the Red cross. The demonstration ban, the Opposition remains.
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