Nicaragua essentially bans opposition from 2021 elections
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 3:14 pm EDT
MANAGUA, Nicaragua Nicaragua’s ruling party-dominated Congress passed a law Monday that would essentially ban opposition candidates from running in the 2021 presidential elections.
The law gives the government of President Daniel Ortega the power to unilaterally declare citizens “terrorists” or coup-mongers, classify them as “traitors to the homeland” and ban them from running as candidates.
Given that Ortega has already applied those terms to virtually the entire opposition and the leaders of massive 2018 protests against his regime, the law approved Monday appears aimed at sweeping aside the last roadblock to Ortega’s continuing his near-perpetual rule over the Central American nation.
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December 21, 2020
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Vice President of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court of Justice, Marvin Ramiro Aguilar Garcia; a Deputy of the National Assembly, Walmaro Antonio Gutierrez Mercado; and a Chief of the Nicaraguan National Police in Leon, Fidel De Jesus Dominguez Alvarez, in an effort to target government officials that continue to assist the Ortega regime’s effort to undermine Nicaragua’s democracy. The individuals designated today each are responsible for coopting judicial or financial reporting mechanisms to support the Ortega regime’s systematic identification, intimidation, and punishment of political opposition.
Nicaragua s Ortega says Covid-19 is under control, unlike in capitalist countries. Local epidemiologists disagree
By Tim Lister, CNN
Updated 3:59 PM ET, Wed July 22, 2020
Workers wear masks as protection against the spread of coronavirus as they leave after a day s work in Managua, Nicaragua, on May 11, 2020. (CNN)As much of Latin America wrestles with the social and economic impact of Covid-19, the government of Nicaragua says it s got the virus under control.
On Sunday, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega made a rare appearance, at which the leftist leader announced that the country s death toll was low and that the pandemic had not affected Nicaragua s health system as had happened in capitalist countries.
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