Humberto Ortega, the ex-head of Nicaraguas military, urged his brother President Daniel Ortega in a TV interview to disband the pro-Sandinista paramilitary forces blamed for deadly violence in months of unrest.
"If the government has a profound sense of responsibility, in the first place it should end the presence of these armed people," who act "as if they were a military or police authority," Humberto Ortega said in a late Friday interview on the CNN En Espanol program "Con Camilo."