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Managua - A gunman shot
and lightly wounded Nicaragua's attorney
general while he was exercising near his
home in the capital on Monday, police said.
Hernan Estrada, a close ally of leftist
President Daniel Ortega, was grazed by
bullets when a man on a motorcycle fired at
him, said Nicaragua's police chief Aminta
Granera.
"This was a criminal act," Granera told a
news conference, flanked by Estrada, who was
taken to a hospital by his neighbors and
discharged after being treated for a light
neck wound.
Granera declined to give a motive for the
attack, but Estrada said it was politically
motivated.
He blamed "some religious leaders" and "some
media outlets" who he said had been inciting
violence against Ortega, a former foe of the
United States who has struck up a close
friendship with Venezuela's socialist
president Hugo Chavez since returning to
power in 2007.
Opponents of Ortega accuse him of trying to
install a dictatorship after disputed
municipal elections last year, in which his
ruling Sandinistas won 105 of the 146 races.
Last month Ortega said the country's ban
prohibiting presidents from serving a second
term was unjust, suggesting he might try to
amend the constitution to allow him to run
again. (Reporting by Ivan Castro)
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