The good will President Biden brings on his first trip abroad papers over lingering doubts about U.S. reliability and the cost that Europe will be expected to pay.
In Nicaragua, Repression Deepens as More Opposition Leaders Are Detained
With a stunning wave of arrests of political opponents and civil society leaders, President Daniel Ortega will practically be unopposed in November elections.
President Daniel Ortega.Credit.Alfredo Zuniga/Associated Press
By Yubelka Mendoza and Anatoly Kurmanaev
June 9, 2021Updated 3:48 p.m. ET
MANAGUA, Nicaragua Nicaraguan police have detained five prominent opposition figures in two days, accelerating a slide toward one-party rule.
A wave of arrests of politicians and civil society leaders on unsubstantiated charges of subversion has left the long-ruling president, Daniel Ortega, running practically unopposed in November’s general elections.
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