Nicarágua - Intern Warfare Perpetual

For decades of intern guerrilla warfare and urban unrest, Nicaragua backed to the media for paramilitary actions. Opposition is claiming again the government and used a series of small explosions to unrest the population, including an access bridge for a port.

The attack was claimed to Nicaraguan Patriotic Alliance, a small group known for the opposition to the President Daniel Ortega. This fight is gripping the political crisis in the country since 2018 for the cuts off the welfare benefits and starting a clash between pro-government forces. These clashes caused injuries, arrests and exile for thousands of Nicaraguans.

Recentrly the murder of a Brazilian student during the civil unrest focused the South America to the protests anti-Government, accused to be a dictatorship. 

Nicaragua is back to the scenario, and the clash of the small groups was a mark in the history of the country. Some fonts agreed that some small guerrilla warfare groups are being involved with FSLN;

Nicaragua opposition group takes responsibility for 'military actions' after bridge explosion

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MANAGUA — A Nicaraguan opposition group claimed responsibility on Sunday for “military actions,” after a series of small explosions struck the country, including one that damaged a bridge leading to Nicaragua’s most important port.

The blasts could mark a turning point in the tactics of the Nicaraguan opposition, which have been largely peaceful since protests broke out in the Central American country in early 2018.

At about 8 p.m. on Saturday, a blast took place on the bridge to Port Corinto, leaving cracks in its structure, witnesses told Reuters.

The cause of the blast, and who was behind it, could not immediately be determined. The Nicaraguan government and police force did not respond to requests for comment.

In a statement distributed on social media, the Nicaraguan Patriotic Alliance (APN), a little-known group opposed to President Daniel Ortega, said it executed “a series of actions of a military nature” on Saturday.

“All these actions are carried out and will continue to be carried out the rest of the months of September, October and the months to come, until the dictatorship is broken,” the group said.

Nicaragua has been gripped by a political crisis since demonstrations broke out against the Ortega government in April 2018 over planned cuts to welfare benefits.

The demonstrations spread into broader protests against Ortega, and subsequent clashes between pro-government forces and protesters have claimed more than 300 lives and prompted thousands of Nicaraguans to go into exile, rights groups say.

Around the time the explosion occurred on the bridge, blasts could also be heard in the capital, Managua, and the nearby city of Masaya, according to local media reports. No damage was reported in either of those cities.

The damage to the bridge had been repaired by Sunday afternoon, according to a Reuters witness.

Cesar Acevedo, a member of the local branch of Ortega’s party, said he also witnessed the explosion on the bridge.

“They (the opposition) are determined to destroy,” he said. (Reporting by Ismael Lopez; Writing by Julia Love; Editing by Peter Cooney)