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<h1 class="entry-title post-title responsive">Nicaragua: Ortega
Arrests Opposition Candidates Ahead of November 2021 Election</h1>
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UNAMOS, the Left Opposition to President Daniel Ortega, who have
been arrested by his government.</p>
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<p><em>This article is written as a collaboration between New
Politics and Solidarity/Against the Current.</em></p>
<p>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 <a
href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/nicaragua-politics-ortega/">he
and his family and friends own most of the country’s news media</a>,
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.</p>
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