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Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ābuild a wallā against the opposition
An 80-year-old authoritarian leader says there will be no more elections in his country.
No, not THAT 80-year-old authoritarian leader, but Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
Nicaraguaās long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, has said the country will hold no further elections to prevent the opposition from coming to power.
The 80-year-old authoritarian leader, who has been in office since 2007, also said he would work with the congress he controls to pass new laws that would ābuild a wallā against the opposition.
Ortega made the announcement on Sunday during the official ceremony marking the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Sandinista revolution, in which he helped overthrow the brutal dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza.
Although his administration and that of his wife and āco-presidentā, Rosario Murillo, had already been marked by the steady erosion of democracy in the Central American country, many are describing his announcement as a significant rhetorical escalation.
Effectively, there's little difference between Ortega and the dictator Anastasio Somoza who he overthrew. A pox on both their houses.
āWith this decision, Ortega and Murillo have sealed the countryās transition to a full-fledged family dictatorship,ā said Tiziano Breda, Latin America senior analyst at the NGO Armed Conflict Location and Event Data.
During a speech in front of thousands of state employees who, according to local media, had been coerced into attending, Ortega said: āThere will be no more elections here so that they [the opposition parties] can try to seize the government, seize power.ā
I don't buy the bullshit that far left dictators are better than far right dictators. In the end, they have few differences in terms of governance. Stalin committed genocide and war crimes just like Hitler. Stalin and Hitler famously cooperated on attacking Poland via the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. They didn't go to war with each other until Hitler got more greedy for Lebensraum and attacked the USSR in 1941.
Trump probably admires what Ortega is trying to do and wishes he could do the same.
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