of the leader daniel ortega. the regime deployed paramilitary forces and police to counterprotesters. nearly 300 people have been killed in three months of protests. demonstrators are fighting against what they say is the government s control of the media, electoral fraud and corruption. reporter: it was the day of people s resistance met with overwhelming state violence. months of rebellion in nicaragua was confronted brutally as daniel ortega looked to silence dissent. putting gunfire and snipers against locals wearing construction helmets and fashioning crude rockets out of plumbing material. videos which we can t verify ourselves shared by local bloggers show a friend being shot. be strong, my friend, he says.