Students In Nicaragua Trapped In Church Amid Gunfire By Progovernment Militias - Latest News

Inside the church where Nicaraguan paramilitaries laid siege on university students

Pro-government militias set out to crush the student ... gunfire quickly resumed, according to those who remained, all through the night and after dawn. The standoff ended on Saturday morning when the ... read more

Nicaraguan students vow to keep up fight until Ortega resigns

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Nicaragua students freed from church after violent night; one killed

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Catholic bishops on Saturday secured the release of dozens of Nicaraguan student protesters trapped overnight inside in a church under a hail of gunfire from armed pro-government . ... read more

Bishops bloodied, churches besieged in Nicaragua crackdown

DIRIAMBA, Nicaragua (AP) — A pro-government ... Church and beleaguered President Daniel Ortega. The church has tried to play a mediating role between Ortega’s Sandinista government and protesters who ... read more

'They Wanted To Kill Us All': Nicaragua Reels After Bloody Church Siege

Nicaragua ... on the protests, was trapped in the Church of the Divine Mercy along with the students. He described what he saw: "Not long after 6 p.m., with several high-pitched cracks, the mood took ... read more

AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean

In Nicaragua, police and armed pro-government civilians retook a symbolically important neighborhood that had recently become a center of resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government. More than ... read more

Nicaraguan forces violently retake symbolic city

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan police and armed pro-government civilians on Tuesday laid siege to and then retook a symbolically important neighborhood that had recently become a center of resis... read more

Nicaragua: two months of deadly chaos

Anti-riot forces and pro-government militias are blamed for much of the violence. The Church ... 30 Nicaragua's richest man, Carlos Pellas, calls for early presidential elections. Ortega vows to remai... read more