Nicaragua; another communist paradise

Last week, hundreds of Nicaraguans were trapped inside a church by their government’s sharpshooters after they had taken to the streets to demand the resignation of Daniel Ortega, the Castro puppet who has been president of the Central American country a couple of times over the past few decades.

The standoff was the latest in a series of clashes between government forces and protesters who are demanding the resignation of President Daniel Ortega and a return to democracy in Nicaragua. In recent weeks, protesters erected barricades in cities across the country to keep out government forces, including at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), which students have occupied over the past two months.

In recent days, gunmen in plainclothes, who appear to be coordinating with police, have been leading a charge to break through the barricades. Convoys of these gunmen, known as turbas, swept into cities south of the capital, such as Jinotepe and Diriamba, earlier this week and clashed with protesters in attacks that left at least 21 people dead.

According to AFP ten more people were killed yesterday, on Monday, as pro-government forces reduced the barricades;

Residents and rights groups had earlier said that troops used mechanical shovels in the early hours of the day to clear barricades in at least three areas.

“They are going to destroy Masaya, it is absolutely surrounded,” Vilma Nunez, president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), told AFP.

“We are being attacked by the National Police and paramilitaries armed with AK-47s and machine guns in our indigenous neighborhood of Monimbo,” said Alvaro Gomez, a resident. “We are resisting with homemade bombs and stones.”

I guess that most of the pro-communist folks in the United States are incapable of seeing that communism is a suicide pact among populations that elect people like Ortega and Venezuela’s Maduro to political supremacy.

The semi-official website El 19 Digital said that government forces had “liberated” the town of Niquinohomo as part of a “clean-up operation” in several southern towns, including Monimbo.

Monimbo has been a center of resistance against the government of President Daniel Ortega since a wave of protests began April 18 over a since-aborted pension reform plan.

Since then, violence has claimed over 270 lives, most of them civilians, according to CENIDH.

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