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Ortega puts blame on ‘satanists,’ bishops
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega blamed “satanical criminals,” Catholic bishops and the US for a wave of unrest he has violently sought to extinguish, as he marked on July 19 the 39th anniversary of the…
- MANAGUA
- Hurriyet
The protesters, financed by the “North American empire” and domestic business chiefs, had been conspiring to mount a “coup d’etat” in the Central American nation, Ortega claimed to a…
Catholic bishops who had attempted to mediate dialogue between him and the opposition were also “behaving like coup plotters,” he said, asserting that some churches had caches of weapons and…