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Nicaraguan students reunite with families after attacks
Associated Press reported via Facebook
MANAGUA, Nicaragua Live. Students fearing for
(AP) — More than 200 Ni- their lives sent farewell mes-
caraguan university stu- sages to friends and family.
dents were reunited with "I did it for the country and I
their parents Saturday af- don't regret it," a crying girl
ter a tense night of armed said in a video that went
attacks that left two dead viral. "Forgive me mama, I
and dozens wounded. love you."
The students had sought The police have not issued
refuge in a local church official statements.
after police forced them Two students were killed,
out of the National Autono- Roman Catholic cardinal
mous University of Nicara- Leopoldo Brenes said.
gua, which had been oc- On Saturday morning, Car-
cupied during two months dinal Brenes negotiated
of protests against the gov- with the president's office
ernment of President Dan- for the safe transfer of stu-
iel Ortega. dents out of the church
"It was a really hard night. and to the Metropolitan
They discharged their en- cathedral, where represen-
tire heavy arsenal against tatives from the Inter-Amer-
stones and mortars," said a Students who had taken refuge at the Jesus of Divine Mercy church arrive on a bus to the ican Commission on Hu-
sobbing young man who Metropolitan cathedral, in Managua, Nicaragua, Saturday, July 14, 2018. man Rights were on hand.
declined to give his name Associated Press "We have said not one
out of fear. "They wanted more death, and this keeps
to kill us all." happening," Brenes said.
Father Raul Zamora said the "These two deaths hurt."
students came under fire at Tensions in Nicaragua
the Jesus of Divine Mercy erupted this spring after the
church for more than 12 government announced
hours. He said a journal- cuts to social security. The
ist from The Washington changes were quickly re-
Post and a journalist from versed, but students took to
the BBC exited the church the streets and occupied
safely earlier Saturday, the main university with a
along with some wounded wider call for Ortega to
students who needed ur- step down.
gent hospital care. The crisis has left around 270
The police onslaught was dead and more than 2,000
televised by local media wounded as forces loyal
outlets and covered by to the government crack
three local journalists who down on opponents. q
Haiti's prime minister
resigns amid fuel price
hike fallout
By EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ members. The prime min-
EVENS SANON ister's abrupt resignation
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) came ahead of a vote on
— Haitian Prime Minister a motion of censure La-
Jack Guy Lafontant re- fontant, a first step toward
signed Saturday amid calls asking that Moise name a
for him to step down over new prime minister to form
his handling of a failed plan a Cabinet to handle the
to raise fuel prices that set crisis. The prime minister is
off a wave of deadly pro- the second highest official
tests. in Haiti after the president.
Lafontant told Haiti's Lafontant was to answer
Chamber of Deputies that questions about the July
he sent President Jovenel 6-8 riots that followed the
Moise his resignation letter. government’s attempt to
Moise confirmed via Twitter raise fuel prices by up to
that he had accepted La- 51 percent as part of an
fontant's resignation along agreement with the Inter-
with those of other Cabinet national Monetary Fund.q
