The armies of Rosario Murillo

Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have taken a crucial step towards consolidating their power as head of an authoritarian family-run regime in Nicaragua. Last week, the “co-president” assumed direct control of the Central American country’s Armed Forces through an express reform unanimously approved by the Assembly. By being appointed as supreme chief of the army, Murillo will formally have, according to the new Military Code, the same scope of …