The Meeting for Understanding and Peace that has been held for more than a month between the Government and the opposition in Nicaragua is on its last working week, which is scheduled to conclude on Wednesday.
The agreement was reached last Thursday, March 28, when the deadline initially set in the roadmap of the negotiation table expired.
The talks are in their final stage under the shadow of violent acts on Saturday at a shopping center in this capital, where the opposition called to stage an express protest (designed for small groups of people in just a few minutes) to attract media attention.
In a communiqué issued on Sunday, the Nicaraguan government’s delegation at the negotiation table condemned those violent acts disguised as civic protests that have taken place for three consecutive Saturdays in Managua.
We declare before our people and before the international community, our condemnation of those criminal and violent acts staged over the past three Saturdays, and particularly yesterday, on March 30, the communiqué said.
Last Saturday, the situation escalated when the ‘peaceful demonstrators’, as the opposition and some media organizations insist on calling them, occupied the premises of the private shopping center Metrocentro and attacked women and children, and beat a 70-year-old man.
In light of that situation, the government’s delegation ‘demands that Civic Alliance be coherent and consistent with the supreme interest of Nicaraguan families who want and deserve peace,’ the communiqué stressed. (PL)
