[D66] [JD: 115] Nicaragua: Ortega Arrests Opposition Candidates Ahead of November 2021 Election

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https://newpol.org/nicaragua-ortega-arrests-opposition-candidates-ahead-of-november-2021-election/


  Nicaragua: Ortega Arrests Opposition Candidates Ahead of November 2021
  Election

By: Dan La Botz <https://newpol.org/authors/la-botz-dan/>June 17,
2021<https://newpol.org/#email><https://newpol.org/nicaragua-ortega-arrests-opposition-candidates-ahead-of-november-2021-election/?print=print>

Leaders of UNAMOS, the Left Opposition to President Daniel Ortega, who
have been arrested by his government.

/This article is written as a collaboration between New Politics and
Solidarity/Against the Current./

Daniel Ortega, who is running for his fourth consecutive term as
president of Nicaragua—his fifth altogether—is taking no chances on
losing. Though he has held the presidency since 2007, for almost 14
years, and though he not only controls the executive but also dominates
the National Assembly and the Supreme Court, and though he and his
family and friends own most of the country’s news media
<https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/nicaragua-politics-ortega/>,
Ortega still felt it necessary to arrest five of the most prominent
opposition presidential candidates and a number of other opposition
leaders. Those arrested this month span the entire political spectrum
from right to left, several being former comrades of Ortega’s party, the
Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN). One has to be struck by
the dictator’s fear of the Nicaraguan people.


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