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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 20 July 2018
NICARAGUA: Setback for Ortega as OAS issues firm resolution
The foreign community is stepping up its rhetoric against the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) administration led by President Daniel Ortega in response to the ongoing crackdown on protesters, carried out by the national police (PNN) and pro-government paramilitaries, which began mid-April and has left 351 people dead on the latest (11 July) figures from local human rights NGO ANPDH. This week the Organization of American States (OAS) issued a resolution condemning the violence and calling for early elections. The move followed an escalation in violence in recent days which was widely condemned regionally and internationally. Doubts persist as to whether this will force any concessions from Ortega given his intention of clinging on to power at any cost.
