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Weekly Report - 17 May 2018 (WR-18-19)

NICARAGUA: Ortega sends out mixed signals as talks start

A national dialogue process, brokered by the Catholic Episcopal Conference (CEN), is underway in response to the crisis stemming from the crackdown on anti-government protesters which began last month [WR-18-16]. This was made possible after President Daniel Ortega, who is facing the worst crisis since taking office in 2007, met a key demand of the CEN and protesters: the granting of a request made by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to visit Nicaragua and review the human rights situation. Yet major doubts persist as to the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government’s commitment to the dialogue process given its failure to meet other key demands – not least an end to the crackdown on protesters by security forces which has left over 65 people dead and some 500 injured.

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