Ortega'sThis decision to end elections in Nicaragua is the final step in cementing a family-run dictatorship in Nicaragua. The Ortega-Murillo regime has already jailed and exiled top opposition figures, extended its own presidential term and now plans laws to permanently bar any political rivals from participating. ThisThey isn'tare governance — it's a regime so afraid of itstheir own people that itthey hadhave to abolish theelections vote to survive.
The Sandinista government is defending Nicaragua's sovereignty against decades of foreign-backed destabilization, not dismantling democracy. The 2018 unrest was a U.S.-funded coup attempt thatin 2018 left blood in the streets, and new laws are simply a firewall against repeat interference. Protecting the revolution's gains — free education, housing for the poor, national peace — demands shutting the door on parties that serve foreign powers.
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