A total of 67 protesters were detained by police during the day, according to the Blue and White National Unity movement,
Demonstrators shouts slogans during a march to mark the one year anniversary of the protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, Nicaragua on April 17, 2019.Hundreds of Nicaraguans opposed to President Daniel Ortega took to the streets of the capital Managua on Wednesday in protests deemed illegal by the government and several dozen were arrested, according to an opposition group.
Anti-government protests began a year ago this week, evolving into a broader resistance movement and the sharpest test of Ortega’s grip on power since he took office for a second time in 2007. A Cold War adversary of the United States, the 73-year-old Ortega served a single term as president in the 1980s.
“I was in the midst of a live broadcast and ordered me to stop and then they took me into a vehicle and began hitting my chest and legs,” Mogollon told Reuters. The protests first erupted last April when Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla, tried to cut welfare benefits.At least 324 people have been killed in the civil unrest since then, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an autonomous arm of the Organization of American States.
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