A member of the opposition Ciudadanos por la Libertad (CxL) was killed six shots in a municipality in northern Nicaragua, that political party reported Thursday, amid the country's worst socio-political crisis in decades.

"Three armed men came to kidnap the leader of Citizens for Freedom José Benito López Méndez, 51, and then assassinate him on the night of Monday, February 17, in the community of Umbla de Vijawes, in the municipality of Mulukukú," CxL said. a statement.

So far, the National Police "have no detainees linked to" the murder of López, a former member of the Nicaraguan Resistance, an opposition group to President Daniel Ortega when he first ruled Nicaragua, between 1980 and 1990.

According to CxL's complaint, strangers kidnapped López in his own house, in front of his wife and son, who minutes later heard the shots that left him lifeless.

López's widow said the murder of her husband "is a political crime" and demanded that the National Police investigate the case.

Similar crimes are common in Nicaragua since the popular uprising of April 2018 against Ortega, whose government responded with armed attacks and extrajudicial executions against opponents, according to reports from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights (Acnudh).

Both agencies establish in 328 the number of deaths in the last 22 months in the framework of the Nicaraguan crisis, although local institutions raise the number to 684, while Ortega, who has been in power for 13 years, admits 200 and explains that he is a victim of a "failed coup d'etat".

Nicaragua was not experiencing a similar bloody crisis since the first time of Ortega as president.

An application process of the Inter-American Democratic Charter is underway in the Organization of American States (OAS) against Nicaragua for alleged rupture of the constitutional order that, if executed, would suspend the country of the agency.

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