Nicaraguan 'dictatorship' is doomed, says exiled author

Nicaraguan 'dictatorship' is doomed, says exiled author

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's "dictatorship" is doomed, exiled novelist Sergio Ramirez has told AFP, predicting the population will eventually rebel against the elderly ex-guerrilla.

Australian National Review - Ortega and Murillo intensify their crackdown: approve reform stripping Nicaraguans of their nationality if they acquire dual citizenship, a direct attack on exiles and dissidents.

The Sandinista dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo — a duo that seems straight out of an authoritarian soap opera — approved a constitutional reform on Friday eliminating dual nationality. Nicaraguans who acquire another citizenship will lose their own, in a new blow meant to suffocate opponents and critics, according to the regime’s puppet National Assembly. In a “special session” held in Niquinohomo, the Assembly — as independent…

Carolina Lagos, President of the Corporation of Relatives of Internationalist and Historical Combatants (COFADECO), who is also an academic, researcher, and internationalist, paid a cordial visit to the Nicaraguan embassy in this South American country. The purpose of the visit was to strengthen ties of solidarity and explore ways to collaborate with our Nicaraguan counterpart. At our embassy, she was received by our Chief of Mission and Ministe…