Senior Official
Denies Zelaya Setting
Up Militias in Nicaragua
Managua - Nicaraguan
Attorney General Hernan Estrada said
Thursday that ousted Honduran president
Manuel Zelaya had not bought estates nor set
up militias in the north of Nicaragua.
In a statement, Estrada denied reports that
Zelaya was training militias in Nicaraguan
territory near Honduras to achieve his
return to office.
He said those reports were made-up and
ill-founded aimed to attack the citizen's
power for supporting Zelaya.
He said Nicaraguan authorities did not sell
estates to Zelaya and Zelaya had not bought
estates in Nueva Segovia zone, which borders
Honduras.
"The only thing I know is that there was a
coup in Honduras, which is regrettable,
condemnable; we are neighbors, it is a
brother country and we have to hold together
and respect Zelaya as the president,"
Estrada said.
Zelaya announced in late July that he would
seek estates to set up camps for training
and educating hundreds of his followers to
become Honduran pacific resistance in Ocotal,
north of Nicaragua, 26 km to Honduran
border.
In another development, General Ramon
Vindell, a member of the general commander
of the Nicaraguan army, said Thursday that
in the north zone of the country, there were
no armed movements nor militias since the
army deployed troops in the border with
Honduras. |
