#daniel ortega

[tomorrowusa]

Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections

Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ 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.

Nicaragua’s 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 “build a wall” 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 “co-president”, 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.

“With this decision, Ortega and Murillo have sealed the country’s transition to a full-fledged family dictatorship,” 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: “There will be no more elections here so that they [the opposition parties] can try to seize the government, seize power.”

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.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections

Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition

Tiago Rogero at The Guardian:

Nicaragua’s 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 “build a wall” 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 “co-president”, 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. “With this decision, Ortega and Murillo have sealed the country’s transition to a full-fledged family dictatorship,” 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: “There will be no more elections here so that they [the opposition parties] can try to seize the government, seize power.” The president, who had not appeared in public for 61 days, added: “We will work with the National Assembly and the relevant institutions on laws, because we need laws that build a wall, a barrier, against the coup plotters and the traitors who sell out their country.”

The elections were due to take place next year, but Ortega gave no details on whether they would be cancelled or whether the opposition would be barred from taking part – something that has already happened in practice. During the 2021 campaign, his regime outlawed parties and jailed all opposition presidential hopefuls. Breda said: “Ortega and Murillo are evidently afraid of the idea that the slightest political opening could create the conditions for dissent to manifest and threaten their grip on power, possibly suggesting that their already feeble domestic support is further falling. “Therefore, instead of staging a rigged election, they have opted to eliminate electoral competition altogether.” Last year, Ortega pushed through a series of constitutional reforms that included extending the presidential term from five to six years and promoting his wife, then vice-president, to the position of “co-president”. The US refers to their administration as the “Murillo-Ortega dictatorship”.

This is peak tyranny: Nicaragua’s psychopath dictator Daniel Ortega announces that the nation won’t hold any more elections, keeping him and his wife Rosario Murillo entrenched in their seats of power.

This is something that Nayib Bukele in El Salvador and Donald Trump in the USA dream of doing.

[ivovynckier]

President Daniel Ortega (80) of Nicaragua abolishes the elections.

[anchesetuttinoino]

Le libertà personali in un regime marxista

Ortega novello Chàvez. Si fa nominare deputato a vita per evitare il processo per violenza nei confronti di una figliastra, ha chiesto la modifica della costituzione per ottenere più mandati da Presidente, nomina tutti i politici sandinisti…strano che in Italì non ci sia chi plaude al novello dittatore del sol dell’avvenire. L’ultimo atto della repressione voluta dal regime prevede che i…

Le libertà personali in un regime marxista

[allthegeopolitics]

Nicaragua approves reforms boosting power of President Ortega and his wife

Legislators greenlight reforms giving more authority to Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, accused of stifling dissent.

Legislators in Nicaragua have approved a constitutional amendment that will strengthen the power of longtime President Daniel Ortega, who has been accused of cracking down on critics and political challengers. The reforms, which 79-year-old Ortega sent to Congress this week “as a matter of urgency”, were approved unanimously on Friday by 91 lawmakers.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at the Group 77 + China summit in Havana, Cuba today, 16 September 2023

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[profesor-javaloyes]

Aunque se intentó crear unos revolucionarios Beatles de Siglo XXI el nivel fue realmente más que bajo ínfimo. ¡Un fracaso!