IACHR press conference on their visit to Nicaragua. It informs that they will be receiving complaints from the assaulted or repressed population during the protests.
First session of National Dialogue begins, the government commission arrives two hours late. The great absentees, the President, Daniel Ortega, the Vice President, Rosario Murillo and the economic adviser of the presidency, Bayardo Arce.
The IACHR visits the National Dialogue Table to inform about the scope and objectives of its visit. CEN files a request for protective measures for students.
Sectors participating in the National Dialogue commit to a 48 hours truce (Saturday 19 and Sunday 20), the government agreed to withdraw the National Police to their headquarters, withdraw the shock forces and Juventud Sandinista. Civil society, for its part, undertook to normalize the transit in the main roads of the departments of the country and to continue protesting in a peaceful manner. For their part, the students pledged to free some roads in the capital but informed that they will remain entrenched in UPOLI and UNAN universities. The truce does not apply to peaceful demonstrations, said the University Coalition. Two killed in spite of truce.
