Ortega Nationalizes and Militarizes a 15-Kilometer Strip on Nicaragua’s Border

El Pais

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Ownership

In a context in which the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo maintains the confiscations as a tool of political repression, the Parliament, controlled by the Sandinista Front, passed last week a law declaring state ownership a strip of 15 kilometers wide along all Nicaragua’s borders. The norm, which has generated fear among landowners, businessmen, indigenous peoples and environmentalists for its “recovery character,” gives the Nicarag…